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 ...…
Ladies and Gentlemen I have to address the issue of sports specific training and “functional” exercise as it is not going away and is in fact getting worse. The body learns skills in a specific manner. The order in which muscles and fibres are recruited, the speed at which they contract and much more. I ...…
I put an official challenge out there to anyone who can lose 10lbs between now and the end of the first week in January. The first person to successfully do this will then get FREE Personal Training with me in Epsom for the rest of January. Now that’s a Christmas present! Anyone wishing to ...…
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Patience is not one our greatest assets; we want it all and we want it now. At least that is, when it comes to fitness and physique related pursuits. As a Personal Trainer I often hear requests of near miraculous proportions and it is compounded by outrageous claims from publications on the subject that offer the next “Six pack ...…
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As a Personal Trainer the most often requested result I am asked about is weight loss and I nearly always answer with; Forget about weight loss. Travesty!Not when you break down the numbers. Weight loss is a nice indicator for statisticians and population studies but really means very little to the health of an individual. ...…
Anyone who has been following me on Twitter will have seen a fair amount of talk about the #TeamAwesome competition. We have a handful of Personal Trainers here in Epsom and we all follow varying protocols to reach our goals. The following is a brief look at who is in the competition and their thoughts ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…