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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Is Your Personal Trainer Informed?
You pay good money to have a Personal Trainer, you should expect them to be up to date with their research. You would expect nothing less from a Doctor, Mechanic or Dentist so why settle for less with the person you entrust your body and performance to? If your trainer still believes the only way ...…
#Teamawesome Powerlifting Competition, Epsom Personal Training Centre
On the 30/12/2011 the Personal Trainers (and some clients) of Epsom’s premier Personal Training centre will go head to head in a friendly powerlifting competition, why? To help keep us all motivated, to test the fruits of our labour and more importantly to share varied training protocols that each of us will be undertaking. The ...…
Understanding Strength, Size and Sports part 3
Individual Requirements Now we have covered, in brief, fibre types we can move onto training of those fibres. Each fibre type plays a different role in our lives. Type 1 are the weakest so it will be of less benefit to any other than endurance athletes to fatigue these, which their events ...…
What to Expect
Many people assume that by simply having a Personal Trainer you will automatically become slimmer as if by some mystical force the mere act of paying someone will magically trim fat away. The successful trainees are the ones that accept that no matter how effective a trainer you may have doesn’t take away from the ...…
Tips
Tips from Epsom Personal Trainer, Richard Ham Williams: 1)Deadlifts – Push your bum back, sit on your heals and take a bow! 2)Treadmill – forget them them if you want to work your bum, run outside. It’s harder and forces your gluteus maximus (bum) to pull your leg back and thus propells your body ...…
Understanding Strength, Size and Sports pt2
In part 1 I showed you the need for strength and size. now I’ll write about the basic different fibre types found in muscles….. It should be noted at this stage that each muscle group around the body can display different ratios of fibre types. Type 1 are classified as slow twitch and are aerobic ...…
Reality bites
Consider this post a little wake up call and a rant at myself too, after all I am guilty of the “quick fix” mindset at times. We see ripped abs, sexy buns and flat stomachs every day in advertising which leads us to believe that anybody can achieve such a physique. They can’t. Genetic variance ...…
Understanding Strength, Size and Sports pt1
Any sport, any, will benefit from having stronger muscles through improved economy of motion. Strength is the starting point from which all else is expressed, power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, flexibility, stamina etc. Over the past few decades it has become more and more apparent that strong athletes are better than their weaker counterparts, the ...…
Success is but a desire….apply that to fat loss
As a Personal Trainer I hear everyday about what people say they want but I need to see them truly act upon it. You are what you do and not what you say. If you want to succeed then you have to want it as much a dying man wants to live. Nothing else can ...…