Last week I posted a blog on how you can vary your training, even when you have no equipment and have less time to spend working out.
One great way of doing this is a reps challenge type workout, this one being based on performing 300 reps as quick as you can. This could be changed [...]
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300 Workout
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Vary it… but how?
A question I have got from time to time is how to get enough variety from working out from home when you have no equipment.
I spoke to one of my personal training clients more recently who also belongs to a gym in Manchester and started asking about the machines for variety. I quickly put a [...]
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Machines vs the alternative
When you visit a gym, you’ll see a lot of equipment like the above being used.
BAD CHOICE !!!!
It’s fair enough that people will go to the machines, there is a few instructions on the side of them and I suppose it is a starting point for the newbie with no assistance.
The slightly more experienced trainer [...]
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Slinggym hits Manchester
A while back I struck up a new friendship with a colleague of mine Grant Thomson over a new piece of equipment he had designed called the Slinggym.
I’ve now been using this piece of equipment for the last 2 months and stay as impressed as I was when I originally started using it last year.
See the [...]
Another 20 minute workout
Back to basics with bodyweight only exercises!
Following a new format, you will perform each set of 2 exercises for a total of 5 minutes and perform as many sets as possible in that time, have 1 minute off and go again on the next pair of exercises. 4 sets later…job done, a great increase in [...]
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The first Xmas Party
Not for me but I heard another friend talking about their first Xmas party was last Friday!
So it’s the time for silly season to start and go to all those smas parties this coming month at work, with friends, at clubs and probably culminating with family do’s at the end of December
This is a dreaded [...]
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