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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: 30 Jul 2013 - 15:59The following are the most 'valuable' and 'beneficial' articles that I have shared with my clients and my followers on Twitter this past week (in no particular order). Please click on the blue link to read: Foods that help to boost your metabolism. Feel fuller for longer. Healthy foods that can make you fat. Unhealthy snack traps. Tips for sticking to your health and fitness plan. Six-pack workout. Simple weightloss shortcuts. Schedule your snacks to cut calories. 10-minute moves for strength, speed and agility. Improve your workout with foam rollovers. Ultimate fat-burning kettlebell workout. Please keep looking at my website for future blogs on the best articles that I have read and shared. There will be a mixture of nutrition,...
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Posted on: 28 Jul 2013 - 16:03What are your exercise plans and goals this coming week? What do you want to achieve this week with your exercise and workouts? Have you planned your training days and prepared your meals? Another week of opportunity is here. Opportunity to achieve a Personal Best, to try a new sport, to give a new exercise a go etc. Grasp it and seize every opportunity. Don't stand still. Look to continually improve and raise your fitness targets. Start the week off in active style and enjoy. Set the standard. Train with a smile and be excited and look forward to your workouts. Be proactive and aim to plan your other weekly commitments e.g. work, shopping etc around your training, rather than being reactive and trying to plan your training around your...
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Posted on: 24 Jul 2013 - 14:35The following are the most 'valuable' and 'beneficial' articles that I have shared with my clients and my followers on Twitter this past week (in no particular order). Please click on the blue link to read: 9 Chicken salad recipes. 5 minute fat burners. How to get your metabolism moving. 17 healthy seafood recipes. 10 medicine ball moves. The fat-to-muscle diet. The benefits of running. Maximise your motivation 3 essential pre-workout snacks. 5 fun workouts. Easy healthy recipes The ultimate jeans workout. Squat challenge. Cardio exercises. Low calorie snacks. Please keep looking at my website for future blogs on the best articles that I have read and shared. There will be a mixture of nutrition, training and general lifestyle articles....
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Posted on: 22 Jul 2013 - 11:08What are your exercise plans and goals this coming week? What do you want to achieve this week with your exercise and workouts? Have you planned your training days and prepared your meals? Another week of opportunity is here. Opportunity to achieve a Personal Best, to try a new sport, to give a new exercise a go etc. Grasp it and seize every opportunity. Don't stand still. Look to continually improve and raise your fitness targets. Start the week off in active style and enjoy. Set the standard. Train with a smile and be excited and look forward to your workouts. Be proactive and aim to plan your other weekly commitments e.g. work, shopping etc around your training, rather than being reactive and trying to plan your training around your...
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Posted on: 21 Jul 2013 - 12:02Who is up for a challenge? Who is ready to test themselves? For August, the #1MinuteChallenge is based on Press Ups with Shoulder Taps. Please see my 'Give it a Go - Press Ups with Shoulder Taps' exercise series on how to perform the Press Ups with Shoulder Taps. Tapping your shoulders whilst doing the press up is a great way to challenge your core muscles and to give you a brilliant upper body and abdominal workout. It is also a fantastic way to add variety and progress to the press up. Are you up for the challenge? The Press Ups with Shoulder Taps for the August #1MinuteChallenge can be performed in a variety of ways. For a beginner, you can position your knees on the floor directly aligned with your hips. If you can do this version of...
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Posted on: 21 Jul 2013 - 08:19The Press Up is a fantastic exercise for building up your upper body strength, provides a great core workout and challenges your Cardiovascular System. Press ups don't require any equipment, you don't need much room and they can be performed anywhere and varied in so many ways. This blog will look at doing the press up with alternating shoulder taps. Please see my previous blog on 'Give it a Go - Basic Press Up' before attempting this version of the press up. Tapping your shoulders whilst doing the press up is a great way to challenge your core muscles and to give you a brilliant upper body and abdominal workout. It is also a fantastic way to add variety and progress to the press up. Are you up for the challenge? Poor press-up technique is...
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Posted on: 16 Jul 2013 - 16:26The following are the most 'valuable' and 'beneficial' articles that I have shared with my clients and my followers on Twitter this past week (in no particular order). Please click on the blue link to read: 6 foods to help you lose weight. Fast track your fat burning. How to boost your willpower. How to eat like an Olympian. Stress busting Yoga Workout. Burn fat on your commute. 15-minute no-crunch six-pack workout. Foods to avoid Simple swaps to cut 500 calories Bounce off belly fat. Gym buddy workout. Summer swaps to save calories. Please keep looking at my website for future blogs on the best articles that I have read and shared. There will be a mixture of nutrition, training and general lifestyle articles. You will find the articles...
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Posted on: 16 Jul 2013 - 15:46If your days drag on with no meaning, you feel lethargic or you struggle to keep up with the kids in the park, or that super fit friend you crazily agreed to go for a run with, maybe it’s time to reconsider your fitness regime. Put down the TV remote, get off the sofa, put that upbeat playlist on your ipod and start working out! We all mean to start jogging or eating well after the Christmas binge to lose those extra pounds, or tone up just before jet setting away in summer but for many of us it is a short lived fantasy. No end of us sign up to a gym, train for a few weeks or months, then stop going, but leaving the 12 month contract emptying our bank accounts. The fitness clubs love it, but we don’t. One hour out of your day may seem an ...
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Posted on: 14 Jul 2013 - 14:12What are your exercise plans and goals this coming week? What do you want to achieve this week with your exercise and workouts? Have you planned your training days and prepared your meals? Another week of opportunity is here. Opportunity to achieve a Personal Best, to try a new sport, to give a new exercise a go etc. Grasp it and seize every opportunity. Don't stand still. Look to continually improve and raise your fitness targets. Start the week off in active style and enjoy. Set the standard. Train with a smile and be excited and look forward to your workouts. Be proactive and aim to plan your other weekly commitments e.g. work, shopping etc around your training, rather than being reactive and trying to plan your training around your...
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Posted on: 10 Jul 2013 - 06:50The following are the most 'valuable' and 'beneficial' articles that I have read and shared with my clients and my followers on Twitter this past week (in no particular order). Please click on the blue link to read: A-Z guide to a flat belly. Hydration and Exercise: How to get it right. Are your friends making you fat? Get better results from your workout. Box-fit circuit. Lose weight without eating less. 15-secret weight loss solutions. Waist exercises The complete beginner's guide to building muscle. Protein on the grill. Please keep looking at my website for future blogs on the best articles that I have read and shared. There will be a mixture of nutrition, training and general lifestyle articles. You will find the articles valuable...
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