Diet & Nutrition

Top Tips To Kick Start Your New Year

Top tips to kickstart your January health regime. Tip No 1 Set multiple alarms for each of your tasks in the morning. When we’re trying to break the routine that we are stuck in we need to have different stimulus to push us onto the new habit we are trying to build, one of the…

How to get more from your personal training session

5 top tips to maximize the benefit of your personal training sessions Daniel spotting Jo on the Hex Bar Deadlift during her personal training session   When you hire a personal trainer several things go though most clients heads. Are they going to judge me ? I don’t want to embarrass myself? Do i really…

Exercising When Sick: Is it Good or Bad?

Is exercising when you’re sick actually bad for you? Feeling under the weather, whether that’s having a cold, flu or a bad cough this time of year can mean you’re not motivated to stick to your plan to exercise. If your muscles are sore from being sick then you’re not going to have the energy…
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When is The Best Day to Start a Diet?

Diets. We’ve all done them. You might have tried, Atkins Paleo Vegan Low carb Ultra-low fat Intermittent fasting Cabbage soup Whatever one (or more) in the above list you’ve tried you’ve probably come “off the wagon” and potentially put back on any weight you’ve lost over the course of the diet. Realistically, this is because…

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…
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Why We Use My PT Hub

MyPTHub has a number of benefits and that’s why we use it at Masters Fitness. Just above you’ll see the video where I provide a deeper overview about some of the benefits you can receive as a personal training client who’s using MyPTHub to its fullest (see some of the testimonials from current clients). Things…
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You may not count calories, but calories do count

Counting calories is back in fashion, fitness wise. It’s come and gone over the years, so I figured it was a good idea to let you know the good, the bad and the ugly. But, let’s first look at the benefits. Counting calories can help you to lose weight. It’s that simple. But, the first…
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Five Calorie Boosting Tips

Interested in boosting your calorie burn and actually feeling slimmer and healthier? Here’s a video where I share five different calorie burning tips to get you moving more with minimal effort, and at the same time having maximum impact on your weight and fat loss goals. In the video, I explain about a few things.…