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Personal Training makes you look good and feel great. My role is to provide you with the tools for you to achieve this. If you are committed and have the desire, try your best, think outside of the box and have a bit of fun you can achieve your health and fitness goals. Live life in the active lane. Little active steps taken today, lead to giant progress strides tomorrow.
Matt
"Together we'll achieve your goals"
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Posted on: 31 May 2017 - 09:52Tags:I was pleased when Lexi Watkins from Reviews.com contacted me to see whether I would be interested in sharing the extensive and detailed research they had done on weight loss programs, with the aim of finding which is the 'best' one. Review.com has conducted the research by removing 'fad' diets, speaking with top nutritional experts to find out what really matters, and taste-testing the 'best' diet plans to determine which program offers the most sustainable, achievable pathway to healthy food habits and weight loss. Review.com analysed the diet plan details, read books, played with with diet apps, taste tested both recipes and prepackaged food, and followed exercise plans to find the best and most successful. If we are aiming to...
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Posted on: 28 May 2017 - 16:00Tags:Positive Health Wellness have produced a definitive guide via an infographic with images and ideas on 7 ways nutritional tips anemic ideas for effective, safe and sustained fat loss. This infographic was written by Karen Reed. The nutritional tips are: - Diet at an appropriate rate - Use a flexible approach - Eat adequate proetin - Don't eliminate carbohydrates or fats - Keep calories as high as possible whilst still making progress - Don't stress over the small details - Supplements will not make up for a poor diet Thank you to Kelly Palmer for providing this article and infographics. Please click on the infographic image to enlarge it and see the 7 nutritional tips for effective fat loss. From experience both personally and with my PT...
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Posted on: 26 May 2017 - 13:07Tags:Informative and useful infographic from Picklee which gives us 10 activities that we can do to get active, burn calories, help lose weight and have fun too. To lose a pound in weight, we need to burn off 3,500 calories, which is achievable with a few lifestyle changes. As the infographic shows, performing any of the 10 exercise activities in the suggested time will burn off at least 500 calories per session. Therefore, if we perform one of these activies each day over a week (7 activities in a week) we will burn off approximately 3,500 calories in a week, tone up, have fun and should lose weight (obviously this depends on us not compensating for the exercise by eating extra cake!!). The infographic suggests that to burn off 500 calories we...
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Posted on: 25 May 2017 - 10:01I was pleased when Lexi Watkins from Reviews.com contacted me to see whether I would be interested in sharing the extensive and detailed research they had done on Treadmills, with the aim of finding which is the 'best' one. Review.com has conducted research on 65 treadmills designed for a living room and not a gym. They compared their specifications and features; evaluated each machine for its versatility, portability, and technology. They also activiely tested each of their top picks by running at maximum speeds and maximum inclines. Lexi informs me that the aim was to find the 'best' treadmill for both runners and walkers mat by focusing on the Treadmills: - Speed and Incline: The Treadmills that scored the highest have speeds up to...
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Posted on: 24 May 2017 - 10:57'VEGGIE-RAGU' High 5 to one of my clients for sending me the picture of the Veggie-Ragu they made. She made the recipe from the 'Delicious Magazine'. Looks tasty and nutritious too with the nutritional values per 'serving' of: - 341 calories - 14.2g protein - 8.6g fat (1.1g saturated) High 5, Matt You can see see our Matt Swaz Fitness Facebook page and our Twitter page.
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Posted on: 23 May 2017 - 10:06There are 3 key, inter-linked elements to living a healthy, happy and balanced life. These are - Exercise - Nutrition - Sleep/Rest If any of these 3 elements are missing or not 'working' properly then we lose balance. Degree Search have produced this detailed, concise and informative infographic which has tips and advice on how to maintain balance in our lives and how we can exercise better, eat better and sleep better. Exercise - Build exercise into our daily routines - Do exercises that we enjoy and find fun - Aim to get active with family and friends - Mix up our exercise with both cardio and strength training - Join a sport team Nutrition - Eat a well-balanced diet - Reduce consumption of sweets and chocolates - Eat plenty of...
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Posted on: 22 May 2017 - 09:57Tags:It is a well known fact that to lose weight and 'just' 1 pound of fat, we have to burn or create a deficit of about 3,500 calories. This can be achieved through a mixture of exercise and diet. Exercise needs to be an aspect of our lifestyle alomgside healthy nutritional choices - exercise and nutrition go hand in hand and compliment each other. There are no quick ways and fixes to losing belly fat. Reducing the size of abdominal fat cells requires more than just cutting calories and therefore exercise should be a part of the equation. Degree Search have produced this detailed, concise and informative infographic which has lots of facts and figures on fat, calories and exercise. As the infographic shows, to lose 1lb of body fat we need to...
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Posted on: 21 May 2017 - 13:24Tags:TEAMWORK DREAMWORK WALK Massive inspired high 5 to all you rockstars who came on the April Team Walk, really proud of and inspired by you all, means a lot to me. Great turnout and great way to get active and enjoy fresh air, take in great scenery and fun fitness. Lots of laughs and banter - mainly at my expense of course :-) Some great hills tackled and through the woods and fields. Looking forward to the next teamwork walk and please get in touch if you would like to join us. You can see see our Matt Swaz Fitness Facebook page and our Twitter page. TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAMWORK High 5, Matt Swaz Fitness :-)
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Posted on: 20 May 2017 - 19:46Our metabolism is all the chemical processes that happen in our body that help to keep us alive and living and keeps our organs functioning normally, such as breathing and digesting food. These chemical processes require energy and this is called the basal metabolic rate (BMR). It is our metabolic rate which determines the amount of calories we burn. Having a higher metabolic rate means that we are burning more calories - even at rest - which makes it easier for us to lose weight and also keep it off. Our size, gender, genetics, and age play a part in our metabolic rate. However, as the infographic above from Health Central shows there are ways that we can control it and even maybe increase our metabolic rate. This includes: - Eating...
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Posted on: 20 May 2017 - 13:49A study published in the International Jounal of Obesity suggests that eating an egg first thing each morning for breakfast could help with limiting our calorie intake throughout the rest of the day. The study reported that leucine, which is an essential amino acid found in high quality protein such as eggs, most likely gives a weight loss advantage when dieting by helping to decrease our loss of lean muscle tissue, whilst also increasing our loss of body fat and stabilising blood glucose levels. The research discovered that increasing high quality protein within the diet gives a metabolic advantage as a result of high content of the amino acid leucine. As reported by the researchers, both the quantity of high quality protein eaten, and...
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