I have done a little bit of research on women's dress sizes, as we are clearly more interested in size rather than weight and so we wanted to you have a focus for your next goal. See below with where you are and know where you want to be in a month and let’s work towards it. UK … [Read more...]
Here’s how eating regularly can help you to lose weight or stay in the best shape of your life
I hope that you are feeling awesome! Did you know that regularly missing meals can scupper your weight loss results? Most people think and the press would have you believe that weight loss is a simple process of calories in and calories out but this is simply not true. If it were half of my client base would never have called or emailed me or even looked for my services. I know lots of … [Read more...]
Muscle Soreness (DOMS)
Many of you boot campers and personal training clients have woken up over this last week as sore as F?#k! sorry for the language, lol but more than one or two of you have had a colourful word or 2 to say we levering yourselves out of the car before your boot camp session. Many of you have been in even though you were sore. Well done and kudos to you!!! Many wondered if you were doing the right … [Read more...]
5 Important Facts that you need to know to get a Flat Belly or Six Pack
Let get straight on today and look directally at the reasons that so many people are not getting the results that they are looking for from their diets and their exercise programmes. No messing here we go! 1. I going to attack main stream 'health food' such as microwave meals and low fat options and I can add to that many slimming shakes. These are often cleverly disguised junk foods. Yes they … [Read more...]
When 10 more minutes in bed is more important than a proper breakfast
Is that extra 10 minutes in bed worth missing breakfast for? As the days get shorter and it gets colder, I don't know about you but I find it harder to get up. The snooze button comes out of retirement to help me stay in bed for just a bit longer. For many people including myself at times it often seems like a good plan to have more time in bed and either miss breakfast or have something … [Read more...]
Renter Friend Vs Personal Training
Do you want to rent a friend or have a Personal Trainer? For my first post I thought that I would tell you a little about myself and the differences between Personal Trainers. The Fitness Industry is a fantastic industry so many different approaches and so many avenues to go down. In this article I (Amy Black), am going to be talking about my journey to Absolute Training and the difference … [Read more...]
Power Vs Endurance
Who do you think has the lower body fat Percentage....A marathon runner or a sprinter? It's the sprinter, did you get it right? On average a sprinter is between 5 and 6% body fat and the marathon runner is about 14%. Now this gives you some clues as to the best way to train to reduce your body fat %, decreasing your weight and giving you a toned, strong body. Knowing this also means that you … [Read more...]
Will doing crunches give you a six pack?
Have you ever noticed how doing sit ups or crunches never seem to give people a six pack no matter how many they do. You may be one of the people who are experiencing this problem. For most people it makes sense to them that if they exercise a specific muscle surely they should lose the fat from that area..... They are often surprised to find that 1 year of doing sit ups later they can do 1000, … [Read more...]
Get the best from your boot camp!
As you know I'm committed to helping you get the best from your bootcamp by giving as much quality information as possible on this blog. On today’s posting I'm giving you some simple steps to get the most from your bootcamp. Some of you will be training early morning, others mid morning, lunch time or evening. Whenever your bootcamp session is be sure to get as many of these things right … [Read more...]
Love the bootcamp?
Love The Boot Camp? We have a fitness, weight loss and health craze sweeping the nation at the moment called bootcamp! In this post I’m going to tell you why the bootcamp is sweeping the nation like a bush fire. I’m going to talk about the benefits of group participation, the variety of the training, how cost effective it can be and how it is great for getting results in double quick … [Read more...]
