Posts by Daniel Masters

How To Eat Out and Still Change Your Body Shape

If you’re training in the gym, or doing any type of exercise, then you’re most likely tracking your calories in an effort to either lose weight to gain muscle (or both). Now, it’s important if you goal is fat loss then you need to be watching what you’re eating and ensure that the right amount…

Our Top 10 Nutrition and Fitness Tips

The world of health, fitness and wellness is vast. There’s much advice out there and some of it is incorrect (or, at best, misleading). Here we provide ten nutritional tips that will help you excel in your weight loss or fitness journey and sculpt the body shape you truly want in life.   1 –…
woman stretching her muscles on an exercise matt

How to Relieve Sore Muscle Pain After Working Out

You went for a workout at your local Ribble Valley gym the other day, but now your muscles are sore and you’re tired. This is normal. It’s called delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS, for short) and it occurs around 48 hours after you’ve worked your muscles hard. Sometimes, you’ll feel it quite strongly (and experience…
personal trainer talking about best time to workout at the gym

When is The Best Time To Workout?

When is the best time for you to workout? Is it the morning, the evening or in the middle of the afternoon?   In the video I talk through a number of different scenarios and I look at how you should be thinking when it comes to going to the gym and working out. As…

The Benefits of Using MyFitnessPal

If you’ve been looking for some of the latest tech to help you with your fitness journey then you’ve probably come across MyFitnessPal. It helps you by tracking what your macro-nutrient intake (carbs, fats, proteins and vitamins and minerals) from the food that you eat. One of the better things that it does is analyse…

Power Napping and Improving Fitness Levels

  You might be familiar with power napping or you might not. Clearly we all know how good it feels to have a good night’s sleep. Today, I had quite a busy day and had a little bit of a gap. I was super tired, so I had a power nap. This helped me to…
three running machines and two exercise bikes in the gym facing a window with a view of trees

Is Cardio Effective for Fat Loss?

If you’ve taken part in any type of fitness, whether that’s going to your local gym in the Ribble Valley or heading with your friends to do some fitness classes, you’ve no doubt done some cardio. Lots of people believe (and have done for years) that cardio is one of the best forms of exercises…

Why Happiness is Important For Motivation

A lot of the recent videos and blogs that myself and the rest of the team at Masters Personal Training have done are centred around the aspect of motivation and fitness. And there’s the reason why: your level of motivation can hugely affect the speed at which you lose weight or build muscle, and get…

Why Eating a Healthy Breakfast is Important

Knowing what you should eat for a healthy breakfast interesting topic. I’ve covered how to eat a breakfast that will help you lose weight before, but this post goes into more depth around other aspects of understanding your nutrition and why a healthy breakfast is important. In the video I speak about why a solid…