Like all athletes, fitness is a fundamental part of the tennis player’s craft. It keeps them going towards the end of a game or match when skill alone isn’t enough. Where the fitter player will often be the victor. Being physically fit can make such a huge difference to your ability to perform at your…
A Japanese Technique for Overcoming Laziness
How many times have you set yourself a goal or challenge and ended up failing to achieve it? Telling yourself that you’re not ready yet. That you’ll do it next week. Or next month. Or even next year. You may have even started with a good amount of zeal. But once you started putting in…
Deadlift Technique and Teaching Points
The barbell deadlift should be a staple exercise in anyone’s gym routine. It is a great exercise to build a solid foundation for most other movements. Quite simply it is the exercise that, if performed correctly, will build unmatched mass while strengthening all the major muscles groups, although the squat could arguably be granted similar…
Start rounding up new Personal Training clients
Are you a newly qualified Personal Trainer? Are you an experienced Personal Trainer with some space for new clients? Do you want some more new clients? Do you want to start a new bootcamp? If you answered yes to any of those questions, now is the perfect time of the year to put some extra…
How to keep your New Year’s Resolution
The majority of us start the New Year by making a list of New Year’s resolutions. A list that will help us change our undesirable behaviour and adopt more desirable behaviours. For many people that list will include a healthier lifestyle and a new career path. For many of you reading this, that healthier lifestyle…
Top 10 fitness trends for 2017
Each year since 2006, the American College of Sports Medicine have conducted a global fitness trends survey. The survey was sent out to over 24,000 people, from all over the world. This year the survey received 1,801 responses—a good response rate by anyone’s standards. With 2016 almost at its end, we look to 2017 to…
Our top 12 Christmas gifts for fitness fanatics
Christmas is just around the corner and it’s time to start ticking off the list of presents for all your health conscious and fitness fanatic friends. Sometimes it can be hard to find the perfect present for our friends and family, however, if you know they are into fitness in any way then this is…
7 tips on how to stay motivated in your training
Whether you are an elite competitor, casual gym goer, weekend warrior, recreational runner, health and fitness buff, or newcomer to sport … all of us will experience a lack of motivation from time to time. It’s all part and parcel of a regular workout routine. What is motivation? Motivation is an internal process or reasoning…