The other day I got asked this question by one of my more recent personal training clients.
“Can we go over some back strengthening exercises?”
The member in question has never had any serious lower back problems but her lifestyle and activity choices prior to us starting always seemed to cause her some grief in the lower [...]
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An important message to beating injury…
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Manchester Personal Trainer goes to HMV
Well guys, Christmas is nearly on us and I’ve been doing my own shopping around Manchester City Centre and The Trafford Centre. Don’t know about you but to me that’s one of the toughest physical tests you can do. All I can say is thank heavens for the Internet!
When I was in HMV there was [...]
Does a Personal Trainer from Manchester have time for fitness?
Have you ever heard yourself or others say comments like these…
“I’ve got this to do and then this and then see the kids…..and didn’t make it to the gym”
“I’ve been so busy at work recently that it’s been impossible…”
“I had such a bad day I just wanted to sit down and never did my workout”
“I [...]
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Manchester Personal Trainer checks out England Cricket Team Warm Up during the Ashes
During the last Ashes test match at Headingley there was a lot of heated discussion about the methods used in England’s pre-match warm up. In a game of football/soccer on the pitch, Matt Prior went down in agony and was close to pulling out because of back spasms.
The issue being argued was that professional cricketers [...]
Go Hard in less than 20 minutes…
I was writing on my Twitter profile earlier where the message was something like this ….
“Had 20 minutes to spare, performed 100 KB Military Press (50 each hand), 100 Cleans, 50 Tricep extensions and 50 hammer curls (both with towel round the handle with 24kg Kettlebell.”
At the end of it I felt great, heart rate [...]
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The 7 Habits of Highly Energised People
While I was at the Health and Wellbeing at Work conference this week in Birmingham I was in one presentation that discussed the value of energy in optimising performance.
Anyone who reads the blog, seen the main site and knows my values will know that I am a big supporter of living a healthy lifestyle to not [...]
Kinetic Chain Assessment
A couple weekends ago now I was in London to complete my training in the most cutting edge assessment I have seen. That’s not only in fitness but any wellness profession and I am so proud to now be able to provide it.
Whether you have had an assessment or not in the past I can [...]
Heads or Tails
I was in a local health club in Manchester today, not something I normally do as most of my training is based on things like bodyweightweight exercises and kettlebells that I own and can afford to because they take up so little space and extremely versatile.
Right now I am in the process of doing some heavier [...]
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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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The core of your training
For as long as I can remember the major part of abdominal training was sit-ups, crunches….and lots of them. Some would profess to doing 500 a day….wonder which chiropractor they are seeing now. They would take up a good chunk of a routine, in some cases that would be the routine be it to get [...]
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