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How Do You Carry Out a Fitness Assessment?

Performing a fitness assessment as a personal trainer is a critical first step when starting out with a new client. This involves a series of exercises and assessments to ascertain a client’s overall health and physical status. The longer the time since a client has engaged in physical activity, the…

How to do a cable crunch

This is an extremely effective exercise for your abs – but only if you’re doing it correctly. Here’s how to make sure you are. Essentially, you want to work the rectus abdominis (that sought-after six pack). To execute a cable crunch correctly, you need to consider the following three things.…

How to carry out flexibility fitness assessments

Most people, when asked how flexible they are, can’t give a clear opinion – largely because they assume that an inability to wrap their legs around their ears means they possess no flexibility at all. But, there is a great range of flexibility, from the mobility of a Cirque du…

Stretches that every personal trainer should teach their clients

As a personal trainer, you no doubt have a wide range of clients, each with their own specific physical challenges and personal goals when it comes to training. Having said this, there are certain exercises every person needs to be able to carry out to optimise the benefits of their…

What a personal trainer can teach us about getting fit

To be ‘physically fit’ means that you are experiencing a state of health and well-being. The term ‘physical fitness’ is about as the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively during work as well as leisure activities. In addition, physical fitness means that a person is healthy, can resist disease…

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How to become fitter 5x faster

Despite what many diet programmes promise, you can’t improve your fitness and lose weight by swallowing a pill, mixing protein powder with your food or drinking a particular shake. To get fit faster, it is necessary to focus on eating cleanly as well as doing both cardio and strength-training exercises.…

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How to get the most out of your personal training routine

Hiring a personal trainer can be a fantastic way to get in shape as they will have designed a programme that’s tailor-made for you. If you’re paying your hard-earned money for personal training sessions, you deserve to get great results. Whether or not you get these results depends on you.…

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What is ‘water aerobics’?

The term ‘water aerobics’ refers to aerobic exercise that is performed in reasonably shallow water, for example in a swimming pool. This type of exercise is done mostly when the person is standing upright. The person doing this type of aerobics will not swim. Water aerobics is a method of…

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How Fit Do You Have to Be to Do a Bootcamp Class?

If you’re reading this, chances are your 2019 New Year resolution to reclaim your health and wellness is still going well. Why else would you be reading an article about bootcamp classes, right? Bootcamp is an amazing way to get in a solid exercise session, socialise with new people, and…

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What is body mass index?

The term ‘body mass index’ (BMI) is used by personal trainers, dietitians and nutritionists alike to describe a person’s body side. The BMI divides a person’s height by their weight in order to get a score. Depending on what this figure is will determine whether or not the person is…

What are the best chest exercises for you?

Chest exercises are mainly made up of pressing movements that are multi-joint exercises. These require the use of the deltoids and triceps as well as the pectorals. They are considered primary exercises because of the movement of the upper arms. The chest exercises are divided up into barbell pressing exercises,…

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Exercises that Your Abs Want You to Do!

The abdominals – or ‘abs’ as these muscles are colloquially termed – are composed of several different muscles. These are the: Rectus Abdominis Transverse Abdominis External Obliques Internal Obliques. The abs sit on the front and sides of the lower half of the torso. They originate along the rib cage…

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