Posts in “Exercise”
Do It In 12 Success Stories…. Evelien Talman
Do It In 12 is our amazing new guaranteed results 12 week personal training package. 12 weeks, 3 months or one quarter of a year isn’t a great length of time. When you’re focused on a single goal, well driven and motivated you can do amazing things, especially with the support and guidance from a […]
Read articleHow Can I Measure My Progress In The Gym?
If you’re a regular reader of our blogs you will probably know that as a team of personal trainers we are quite driven by results, after all, most of our clients come to us with a goal so it’s important that we are focused on helping them achieve their goals and results. We measure our […]
Read articleAchieving A Bikini Body Like Jessica Alba….
Jessica Alba clearly trains, she has achieved an amazing figure, is balanced and holds enough fat tissue not to appear clearly defined, maintaining a soft look. She is probably around 16-18% body fat. If you want to bring your body to that level you’re going to need to train hard. Combine HIIT training with resistance […]
Read articleDo It In 12 – The 12 Week Guaranteed Results Program
Motive8 North Personal Training present the DO IT IN 12 program Want to transform your body in twelve weeks? We can help you do it. Do It In 12 is a brand new program from the personal training team at Motive8 North that guarantees you’ll meet your personal goals with a bespoke program that is […]
Read articleWill Detoxing Help You Lose Weight?
So this is the year your going to get healthy and you’ve read that detoxing will help you start to feel less sluggish and lose weight after Christmas! But will it? Will detoxing help you lose weight? Without mention names, you won’t see a shortage of people pushing this crap left right and centre, it […]
Read articleMy New Year Resolution – Lucy Harrison
If someone had told me this time last year that 2014 would be such a massive year for me I probably would have laughed. I have been fortunate to buy and move into my first house and in September I got engaged so 2015 is going to be a busy year for me! In a […]
Read articleMy New Year Resolutions – Kate Halsall
For me personally, New Years and Birthdays are always a time for reflection. I look back on the past year and determine which of the goals I had set myself I have acheived and which ones I could have done better. I review any new goals I set during the year and which of my […]
Read articlePost Christmas Fat Burning Workout
In the past couple of weeks at the motive8 North personal training studio in Leeds we have been pleasantly surprised by how many of our clients and class members have kept up with their training regime. To be honest, we shouldn’t be surprised for two reasons. Firstly, last December we didn’t see too much of […]
Read articleMy New Year Resolutions-Chris Baird
Its that time of year again and like most I like to goal set and set new year resolutions for the following year. In 2014 I set myself the goal of developing my squat strength and like I do with my personal training clients I mapped out my training set goals and met those goals. […]
Read articleHow To Stay Motivated To Exercise In Winter
I’m not sure about you but I think we are not having it too bad weather wise this Winter. Yes it’s a bit wet and rainy but it’s not been too cold (yet). It’s this time of year when the horrible weather makes us want to stay inside an hibernate. Whether you’re someone who normally […]
Read articleStaying Injury Free When Skiing
Going skiing is great fun, what’s more fun is keeping injury free whilst skiing and believe it or not there is a lot you can do in the gym that can help prevent most of the common injuries. Before we get into injury prevention of skiing lets look at the latest ski injury facts: 33.4% […]
Read articleExercise With Children
So it’s the start of the school holidays, the kids are at home. Aaargh!!! How are you going to fit your training sessions in with the kids around? Well never fear, here are some ideas of how you can exercise with children this Christmas (and other times of the year too!) Before we start looking at this, […]
Read articleSki Fit Improving Core Strength
With a week to go before Christmas what can you be doing to maximise your core for the new year ski season? Core strength is important to maximise your skiing performance. A strong transverse abdominis and obliques helps stability in the spine which is important when changing direction during skiing. I’m hoping that you […]
Read articleA Personal Trainer’s Food Diary – Chris Baird
We thought that you might interested in taking a sneaky peak at what the Personal Trainers at motive8 North eat and how we stay fuelled for days. So to kick off the the series of ‘A Personal Trainers Food Diary’ we thought we would kick of with personal trainer Chris Baird (aka Doctor Evil) Here, for […]
Read articleHow To Avoid Winter Weight Gain
How to avoid winter weight gain can seem like a difficult question at times. In fact there has been no scientific evidence that we are biologically predisposed to weight gain during the winter months. Well unless your a bear, which has changes in its hunger hormones before it goes into hibernation but it’s rare we […]
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