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Seven Reasons to Start Thinking About Summer Fitness Now

We’ve literally come out of a bit of a cold snap here in the UK, but this is the perfect time to be talking about your fitness levels and the summer coming up. We all tend to think about summer and looking trimmed when it’s literally on our doorstep and we’ve had the holiday booked…
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The Worst Thing To Say To Your Personal Trainer

  Do you want to lose weight and get the body shape you’ve always wanted in life? Then this is an important blog (and vlog) for you. There’s one thing that you should never do with your personal trainer: lie to them. This is important. Why? Because they’re there to ensure you’re on track to…

Five Tips To Burning Fat

  Want to burn more fat and feel great about your body again? These fat burning tips will help. I made this video because I was having a conversation with a personal training client at our fitness facility in Brockhall Village. We were talking about calories and intake and different types of food that everyone…
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How Do I Lose Weight?

  A lot of people ask me the question: “How Do I Lose Weight, Daniel?” And it’s a simple answer: there are lots of things that you can be doing to burn fat, lose weight and feel happier about your body. That’s something that we help individuals with through our bespoke personal training programme at…

7 Simple Steps To Get The Body You’ve Always Wanted

When you sit there and imagine how comfortable and confident you feel being around people on the beach, you know you’ve got the body you’ve always wanted in life. But, how do you get there? What is it that you need to do to feel that great? These seven steps are simple: they’re not overly…
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Why Eat What Our Ancestors Ate?

At some point you’ve probably heard someone you know, say: “That’s it. I’m going on the Paleo diet!” But, most people don’t eat a full Paleo diet: they ‘mix and match’ depending on what foods they’re eating. A true Paleo diet is eating with the seasons and going out to hunt and kill your own…

No Ifs, No Buts, No Shortcuts: Assessments Matter

If you’re reading this then you’re probably one of the 1000s of people who have gone off to join a gym at some point in your life. Chances are you’ll have had the statutory gym induction, where an instructor demonstrates and explains how to use the machinery in the gym and get things set up…

Is Your Life on Standby?

If asked how you’re doing today or one of your friends asked how you were, would you be like most people and answer, “I’m alright, I suppose?” But, if you were pushed for an answer, the most common response I hear is, “Well, I’m a little tried/ stressed/ fatigued …sigh!” Herein lies two of the…

Say No to Moobs! 5 Tips to Banish Man Boobs

Picture used under Creative Commons Do you ever fear taking off your shirt in front of people? Even those who love you for who you are and don’t really care about what your body looks like? You remove your shirt at night and what you see makes you feel uncomfortable: it doesn’t really resemble a…
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Why Protein is Important For Your Body

Everywhere you look in the fitness world these days it’s all about protein, usually high protein. But, is high protein really necessary? Where do you get protein from? Is eating all that protein actually good for you? These are questions that we get asked constantly at MPT. What is Protein Used For? Let’s take the…