You may or may not know that in 6 weeks I am going to cycle across the USA from East to West, finishing at Alwyn Cosgrove’s Santa Clarita training facility, Results Fitness.
Give or take a few corners, this is 3500 miles which we hope to do in 8 weeks. The aim is not to just [...]

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1) Train like an athlete or sportsmen who has a body like the one you want. Sprint short distances, do explosive exercises, combine weight training and interval based work, stretch lots, eat what you need for fuel not to help you get over Sally dying on Eastenders, develop your desire to beat others/yourself.
2) Know why [...]

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Everybody from elite athletes to a beginner to exercise or elderly person needs strength, power and core strength if they want to optimize there performance.
Clearly performance to an elite athletes is targetted at a medal, trophy or title, whereas an 80 year old lady wants to be able to move well and be able to [...]

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For the last 4 weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of training Dewald Senekal, South African rugby professional at RFC Toulon in France.

You can see what Dewald thought of the 4 weeks and see some clips of me training with him….hard!
There was a lot more to the training than is seen in the video including heavy [...]

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First let me make one point…
I only labelled this ‘designing a workout’ because if I called it a ‘training session’ as it should be, many people would turn off because they think training sessions are for athletes.
I’ve dealt with the difference between working out and training before so won’t rehash it! Lets’ just leave it [...]

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We all know stress is bad for you and contributes to weight gain.
It also generally makes you feel like you’d rather someone just turned the lights out and you could crawl into bed!
But what’s the process behind stress and weight gain.
One of the main culprits is cortisol. Send your cortisol levels out of balance and [...]

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Often when performing personal training sessions with private clients or during group fitness sessions, I find myself repeating over and over again one or more of the following phrases:
“Pull yourself into the squat”
“Make sure you get as low as possible maintaining an upright posture”
“Imagine a hole and sit right into it”
“Open the hips and sit [...]

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If I got a pound for every time someone asked me “what are the best abs exercises” or “what’s the quickest way to get a six-pack, this blog would be gold plated with jewels encrusted around the edging.
The problem seems to be that a lot of people simply don’t understand what the stomach muscles actually [...]

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This video is a sample of the awesome bootcamps I’ve been running at my studio in Nottingham.
I’ll be using this kind of training and MUCH, MUCH more when I return to Guernsey in May to launch the Guernsey Fitness Camp and my personal training services!
This is guaranteed to be the most exciting training you’ve ever [...]

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If you have any interest in health and fitness, fat loss or sports performance on any level you will no doubt have heard of kettlebells.
Many celebrities, top athletes and top personal trainers are using them – you’ll see them in Men’s Health, all the women’s fat loss articles and any half decent gym as everyone [...]

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