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Overcoming your fears for exercise and starting the journey towards a better you
Getting started can feel challenging. Once you get through the first few hurdles, you will find that you are capable of far more than you imagined, and having a guide can help you do this. I had my first training session with a client yesterday. She was intimidated by the prospect of her first training…
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Harness the power of social comparison to your advantage
“Comparison is the thief of joy. It is the death of joy and contentment.” (Unknown) You may be familiar with the above quote and inclined to agree with it if you think of situations where you have felt as though others are doing better than you. You might scroll social media and wonder why you…
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Reaching New Heights: The Significance of Setting Ambitious Goals
One of my clients who recently started with me has set himself an impressive goal of competing in the Fan Dance race, an endurance event created to test the SAS! Talk about challenging!! He has set himself the goal of signing up for it next year, and we will need to work to improve his…
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Beginnings of a fitness journey
Getting started can feel difficult. Once you get through the first few hurdles though, you will find that you are capable but having a guide can really help you do this. I had my first training session with a client yesterday who was intimidated by the prospect of her first session. She was keen to…
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Is your body giving you the cold shoulder?
One of the challenges that I’ve seen clients have is called frozen shoulder which is where the shoulder becomes incredibly stiff and it becomes challenging to raise your arm in the air. A frozen shoulder will make doing everyday tasks difficult so I wanted to share my knowledge of exercise to help you to minimise…
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Training that is sensitive to the difficulties of starting again
Starting again after a major medical setback is hard. I cannot even remember coming out of hospital – the day before Christmas- after spending two months at Southampton. During my time in hospital I had undergone several surgeries, the main one which was to put a shunt in to help relieve pressure in my brain. …
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Breaking news- Ditch the hype
Find effective fitness strategies that work Are you falling for the fads? The basics do the real work- so lets avoid the fads and get the real results which you can be proud of. On socials there are plenty of adverts giving advice on achieving washboard abs, losing weight (this is actually quite simple to…
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Leading by example: Physical fitness training for managers to inspire their team and impact their professional growth
Tom is a busy business manager looking after a team of people who look up to him for support and guidance each day. He has worked long and hard to achieve this position in the business and always strives to lead by example putting in extra hours and putting his hand in the ring anytime…
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Darryl’s Training Experience: A client story
Darryl has a busy job working hard and getting the long list of tasks that his boss gives him done. It’s a complete change working in this corporate environment from when he was at University with time to spend playing lots of different sports that he loved. These days he misses the exercise and the…
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When your career and social life kills your park run times, you need to try these exercises.
Can you improve running in your own home? My high achieving clients want to be the best at everything, even park runs. Sometimes they will have a few weeks where they need to train hard and end up sacrificing other things just to improve their times. If they don’t do this, then they could end…
Training advice for the Fit Pros 