Never underestimate the power of the mind. One good way to set personal bests in the gym is to visualise your lifts before you do them. See yourself grinding out repetition after repetition in your mind and then execute it in reality. I think they call it “imagery technique”, but I just call it psyching […]
Periodically I am moved to write a few words about what makes a good personal training client. Yes, thats tight, not what makes a good personal trainer, but what a client him/herself actually needs to meet with the success that they pay their hard earned money to achieve.
One of the nice things I genuinely […]
I was reminded by a personal training client today that success in the gym, or with any fat loss or bodybuilding regime for that matter, is a matter of small incremental steps forward. Of course I already know this - no one who has built a physique of their own can help but know […]
Today I am being a tad lazy and copying an article detailing my thoughts on Personal Trainers that I orginally published in my website (www.UPFitness.co.uk). The reason for the replication of old work is that aside from being incredibly busy at the moment working with a range of exciting new clients and projects (lots […]
I am currently bogged down in a job that entails me writing about the main energy systems used in top flight rugby matches. Not surprising after a little while ennui can set in when detailing the world of fun of phospocreatine stores, anaerobic glycolosis and lactate thresholds. So in an effort to escape the drudgery, […]