Posts in “Exercise”


Diet | Exercise | Fitness | Lifestyle | Low Fat | Uncategorized

Top 5 Fat Loss Myths

There is an awful amount of terrible information floating around regarding nutrition. The nutrition industry is largely unregulated, with so many self proclaimed nutritionists, companies pushing their own “research”, and pyramid companies forcing products down your neck it can be hard to see through the ‘fog’. This has led to many fat loss myths coming […]

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Running Hill Sprints Programme

If you want to improve your running times then you should be incorporating hill sprints into your training programme. Try incorporating this running hill sprints programme into your training on a weekly basis and see how your running speeds and race times improve. Warm Up: Begin your session with a thorough warm up. I like […]

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How to Keep Your Children Healthy And Happy

  The World Health Organization (WHO) regards childhood obesity, as one of the most serious global public health challenges for the 21st century. Obese children and adolescents are at an increased risk of developing various health problems, and are also more likely to become obese adults. Whilst the majority of our personal training clients are […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Personal Training | Training

How To Get Toned Legs

Put the fake tan down, step away from the step machine & stair masters and don’t even think about using one of those abductor/adductor machines…earlier this week we posted a workout for how to get perfect pins, now lets talk about that question we, as personal trainers , hear all the time ‘How do I get toned legs? Here […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Personal Training | Squat | Training

The Perfect Pins Workout

When we train our female personal training clients, and some men for that matter, they often ask about toning their legs……getting the perfect pins. So, personal trainer, Kate Halsall, has come up with this Perfect Pins Workout to tone those legs…making anyone proud to wear a mini-skirt or hot pants! Our Perfect Pins Workout is a […]

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How To Train For Tough Mudder

It’s mud/obstacle race season, many of our personal training clients and gym members are taking part in these ever popular events so we thought we would write a blog about How To Train For Tough Mudder.  Training for the Tough Mudder, or any other of the popular mud and obstacles runs there are these days,  cannot […]

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5 Common Fitness Myths

  Oh there are so many fitness myths around…….if you drink too little water your head shrinks, doing planks every day will get you ripped, an apple a day will keep the dentist away…… You saw it on You Tube, read it in the newspaper, or your training buddy told you – so it must […]

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Cycling Strength Session – Improve Cycling Perfromance

Strength training can dramatically improve your cycling performance, for more information on the benefits of this program click here. This program to improve your cycling strength has three phases each lasting 4-6 weeks: Phase 1- Base strength, during this 6 weeks of training the aim of the game is to build a solid base to […]

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Top Tips To Running Your First 5k

It’s that time of year where the weather improves and many people will start to think about running a 5k or a 10k. Many of you reading this blog may never have run a 5k, you may fancy doing one but you’re a little scared or nervous about running your first 5k. There are probably […]

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How To Improve Your Cycling Performance

Improving your speed on a bike can seem like a daunting challenge, especially if the last time you cycled your legs where screaming at you. So the personal training team at Motive8 North have put together two simple steps to improve your cycling performance. Yes that is all it takes…..two simple steps! Step 1. Get the simple things […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Squat

How Does Your Squat Look?

What do you think about when you squat? Is it about how low your bum is going in relation to your knees or ground? Is it about the awesome weight that you’re squatting with or about how many reps you’ve got left? Do you ever think about what your feet and knees are doing; how […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Uncategorized

HIIT Workout – Pyramid Workout

This is a great HIIT workout, based on a HIIT pyramid workout it is guaranteed to burn fat! For this HIIT workout for the first three rounds, increase your reps by five. The last two rounds are descending numbers of reps. Round 1 – 10 reps Round 2- 15 reps Round 3- 20 reps Round 4 […]

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What Are The Benefits Of Group Personal Training

Last week I wrote a blog about how you could afford personal training, some of you may have read it thinking……”yeah, all good ideas but seriously I’m not going to give up going out once a week just so I can afford a personal trainer”. I would question this and say what price do you […]

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How Can I Afford A Personal Trainer?

Many of you reading this blog might already be personal training clients at one of our Leeds based personal training studios, many of you may have just discovered us on the internet and be interested in getting a personal trainer but be questioning how can I afford a personal trainer? I’ve been a personal trainer in […]

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What Are The Benefits Of Yoga?

A recent newspaper article suggested that Yoga could change your life! Really? WOW! Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE yoga, but whilst I’m not 100% sure that this life changing statement is strictly correct, I do think that Yoga is often misunderstood and stereotyped. It’s not just about sitting cross legged and meditating! So what […]

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