What Are The Benefits Of Wearable Fitness Technology?
Whether you run with your Smart phone, use My Fitness Pal or other apps to record food and activity levels, or wear a heart rate monitor; around 18% of us are now wearing some sort of fitness technology. Whether it’s to track our sleep, number of steps, or number of calories we have consumed AND […]
Read moreMotivating Yourself From Within
Exercise Psychology – Motivating Yourself from Within Psychology of exercise and physical activity can include vast amounts of concepts, theories and strategies. These may be future topics to cover in other blogs however I thought that covering our ability to develop our motivation and where it originates would help with both those struggling with motivation […]
Read moreHealthy Places To Eat In Leeds
Whilst, as a team of personal trainers, we like to eat healthy….that doesn’t mean that we live a monk-like existence and never go out. One of our favourite haunts of healthy places to eat in Leeds at the moment is the Grub and Grog Shop (none of the Grog of course!) at the Northern Monk […]
Read moreBeach Body Workout
Easter has passed, and this normally marks the time of year when everyone starts thinking about their holidays, so we thought we would give you a great beach body workout to kickstart ‘Mission Beach Body!’ We all know that there isn’t one single magic “once-a-week” workout which will get you that beach body you’re after. […]
Read moreCourgette and Tomato Soup
A healthy soup that can be made in bulk to ensure you always have healthy meal in the freezer. Here is a tasty courgette and tomato soup for you to try, it’s really easy to make. Serve with some chicken or fish if you want to add some protein. Kcal 90 Protein 4g Carbs 12g […]
Read morePersonal Training Success Stories – Guy Weston (Fitter, Stronger, Faster!)
As personal trainers, we don’t just measure a client’s success by their weight loss/gain, body fat reduction or their amazing six pack abs. It’s important to know that not all clients want these things. Regardless of what the end goal is, targets are set and achieving those targets through blood, sweat, loss of colour in […]
Read more5 Easy Ways To Fit Exercise Into Your Day
It can be hard sometimes to fit exercise into your day, everyone has busy lives. It’s easy to keep putting it off…..I’ll go tomorrow, I’ll go next week, I’ll start next monday. Ultimately if you want to improve your health, lose some fat or gain of muscle, you’re going to have to fit exercise into […]
Read moreCalories In Easter Eggs… Surely One Won’t Hurt?
With Easter approaching it’s safe to say Easter eggs and chocolate treats are lining the shelves of all supermarkets, corner shops and petrol stations. For many people they see it as a time to treat themselves to an easter egg or two…..“it’s Easter after all” and if you have kids it’s often hard to resist […]
Read moreHealthy Breakfast Recipe- Egg Muffins
I bet your eyes popped out of your head when you read muffins and healthy in the same sentence! But we love this healthy breakfast recipe of egg muffins. They are great to have at home, if you have children, kids love them or they are great to take to work or have on […]
Read moreHow 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 […]
Read moreHealthy High Fat Recipes
We have talked numerous times about the benefits of eating a diet high in healthy fats, but if you still need some convincing about the benefits of eating a diet high in good fats, then click here to read our blog! Here are some healthy high fat recipes, which will keep you feeling nice and […]
Read moreWhat 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 […]
Read moreWhat Are The Benefits Of Strength Training vs Cardio?
Whether it’s weight loss, fat loss or body conditioning and tone, we know that exercise will play an important part in achieving our goals. We also know that there will need to be some sort of resistance training and an element of cardio. The American College of Sports Medicine’s 2015 Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends, […]
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