Trainers Blog: Breathe
Piere Cunsamy writes a trainer blog to tell us the benefits of good breathing techniques to help your training.
How to Make a Good PT Profile Even Better
Your profile is your advert, so make sure it works well to promote you and what makes you great! We cover some options for you to improve your profile to attract the right people for you.
Signs you’re ready to get yourself a personal trainer!
Many people would like a personal trainer, someone to motivate them in their exercise goals and keep workouts interesting to avoid the monotony of the same old gym workout time and time again. However, most people don’t end up with one for a few reasons, but principally cost and unsure about how to find one that would work for them.
6 Things You Must Do To Hold Boxing Pads Correctly
if the pads are held incorrectly, the workout quickly becomes ineffective and frustrating. To prevent injury and to get the most out of the session, it’s really important that the pads are held and worked correctly.
Don’t Let Boredom Be Your Downfall
We all have оur еxеrсіѕе hаbіtѕ. Wе warm uр fоr 10 mіnutеѕ bеfоrе wе workout. Wе might go to a class or hit the weights for 60 mіnutеѕ. After wе соmрlеtе our class mауbе wе сооl dоwn with more stretching or bу uѕіng аn еllірtісаl trainer fоr аnоthеr 10 minutes. It іѕ ѕоrt of lіkе rіnѕе, cycle аnd repeat. The wоrkоut can easily bесоmе boring аnd wе decide nоt tо gо bесаuѕе wе loose motivation.
6 Tips to Improve Your Fitness Training Program for Women
There are some differences between men and women that need to be kept in mind when you are a PT. The following are 6 tips every Personal Trainer should keep in mind when coaching women.
Vary your workout for a healthy brain
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia are two incredibly debilitating diseases that we are still trying to understand and treat with scientific research. Some studies into the diseases have suggested that engaging in a wide variety of activities reduces the risk of dementia in older people.
Crackdown on Steroid Users – PT’s Help Needed
It is thought that most people who regularly use, or are considering using performance drugs, which are illegal to supply, but not possess, are not fully aware of the possible side effects associated with them. These include increased risk of heart disease, mood disorders, infertility, high blood pressure and severe acne.
10 is the new 5…apparently
Well, now we all need to think again and re-plan those meals because research by Imperial College in London says forget 5, its 10 portions you should go for. In an almost smug fashion, the research effectively says, “yeah, 5 is good, but 10 is way better if you don’t want to die prematurely”.
Facebook Marketing for Personal Trainers
With so much content available to us now it’s no wonder a lot of people feel the need to shout their message across social media. That’s definitely not the way to get heard. While social media can be chaotic there’s an easy way to cut through all the noise. You have to know what your story is and present it on each social network in the right way.
8 Marketing Tips for Your PT Business
People are bombarded with so many marketing messages these days and the world seems to be awash with fitness and diet tips. It’s hard to be heard above the noise so try to vary your tactics so you continue to communicate with existing and potential customers. You are probably doing some of these marketing activities for your fitness business but maybe not all of them. Like your fitness, you will only grow your business if you put the effort in.…
Matching Trainer and Burner
So, here’s the thing, and it isn’t rocket science or anything revolutionary, but we all need reminding of it sometimes. If we don’t enjoy something, the chances are we will look for excuses not to do it and will struggle for motivation. Most often, the workout that works best for you won’t be based on the number of calories you burn or kilo’s you lose, it will be the one you’re motivated to stick to.
But I Don’t Like the Gym!
Despite huge advances in medicine we are experienced levels of obesity, diabetes and stress related illness never seen before especially within the younger generation. We are becoming more sedentary, eating less healthily and resorting to pharmaceuticals to solve all of the issues we have created due to this rather than solving the cause and taking responsibility for our health and fitness.
The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
I doubt I’m the only one that reaches for the stats on my exercise tracking app as soon as I’ve finished a session to see how I’ve progressed, regressed or stayed the same since my last workout. It then goes deeper, as I look at sessions at the same time last year and shame myself that I am still not back to the level of fitness I was at then. Maybe it is just me.
Working Herts and Minds! – getting active outdoors in Hertfordshire
However, it can be hard to find things to do and to inspire you. So, after reading about the huge range of activities available for people in Hertfordshire I thought I would pick my five favourites and tell you about them.
Training Outdoors – Food For The Soul
Hоw mаnу оf us hаvе tаkеn a gуm mеmbеrѕhір and ѕіmрlу failed tо ѕtісk to thе rоutіnе? I know I have.
Exercising in a gym саn be demotivating and boring for thоѕе who lоvе оutdооrѕ, and therefore they find іt difficult tо stick tо thе rоutіnе ѕuggеѕtеd by gуm іnѕtruсtоrѕ.
Outdoors fіtnеѕѕ trаіnіng іѕ a good орtіоn to stay fit bу bаlаnсіng what уоu will nоrmаllу do іn a gуm with what уоu wоuld lіkе tо do outside.
To bounce or not to bounce?
Across the board, whether middle aged and unused to exercise, or a regular athlete, studies have shown that regular 30-minute trampoline sessions show a small but significant improvement to cardiovascular fitness. In addition to that, data from the centres in the UK demonstrate a relatively low accident rate meaning it is safer than many may expect.