Tag Archives: Personal Trainer Manchester

Achieving Your Goals Faster

One question that gets asked a lot about goal achievement and success….
“When Should I Begin?”

Believe it or not, it’s a really common question!
People are of the belief that there is some special ‘buildup’ they have to go through in order to achieve what they want or that they have to ‘prepare’ or ‘get ready’ or [...]

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Aerobics and talking metabolics?

As part of any fat loss program it is important that your protect your metabolic rate?
What’s is this?
The metabolic rate is simply defined as the rate at which your body burns calories. If you have a high MR then you are going to need more calories to preserve yourself at your current rate. A slow [...]

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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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What can you learn from Dr Cox?

One of my favourite shows around for me is Scrubs. I’m a bit of a sitcom fan - they’re easy and better ones like this always have a few laughs and some great characters like Kelso, Turk and Dr Cox.
I’m no addict but this one and Entourage are my favs.
I’ve got a bit of all those characters [...]

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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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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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I don’t want to “train” you….

Hi everyone, got back after a great weekend in London for business and pleasure and wanted to talk in more depth about fitness services and the fitness industry and why you use them.
Sounds a bit daft and this leads me into the subject title. Because of course I want to train you or as I [...]

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Welcome To The Body Planner Blog

I welcome my readers to the new blog page for The Body Planner.  Whether you are one of my clients, colleagues or friends who know me and have seen the website previously or a new reader , I promise you will find the best quality information on health and fitness and what it takes to [...]

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