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...]
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...]
What is The Fit Body Boot Camp
What is The Fit Body boot camp? The fit body boot camp is a group exercise class with a difference. It is group exercise that is based around your results not around the instructor’s ego or around the latest faddy piece of fitness equipment. At the fit body boot camp you will be responsible for getting results as you will be weighed, measured and fitness tested to make sure that you are moving … [Read more...]
Making Tuna Omelettes
Hey, listen - seriously the most important meal of the day is Breakfast and I just cant believe how many people miss this fundamental meal of the day. I hear all sorts of excuses as to why they do it, but to be totally honest with you - if you want proper weight loss this is one of the meal you have to conquer and I have been dying for ages to tell you how to make the most simple breakfast … [Read more...]
Step By Step
Sometimes what you need to achieve is just to bigger a mountain to climb. Yesterday I was working with a personal training client one on one. He has a multitude of problems, some are structural, some are internal lifestyle related diseases, and then he has the weight that he needs to lose. All of these problems make it seem like there is no light at the end of the tunnel, it has been turned off … [Read more...]
