Introduction It is widely known that maintaining and building aerobic fitness is an important factor in staying healthy as we age. I have written about it myself in blogs on aerobic training (click...
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What to expect from your personal training programme
Introduction I treat all of my clients as individuals. After all, that’s the whole point of a personal training programme. However, I’m sure that prospective clients will be pleased to...
Abdominal and core strength workouts
These 3 workouts will help you to build strength and endurance in all of the core muscles; the abdominals, the lower back, the side, and the obliques. They are progressively more challenging...
High impact leg strength and cardio workouts
Introduction These two high impact workouts include jumping exercises, and therefore will allow you to build leg strength and cardio fitness once you have built the foundations with the low and...
Medium impact leg strength and cardio workout
This medium impact workout introduces more dynamic exercises and therefore will require a foundation of leg strength to reduce risk of any injury to hip, knee, and ankle joints. If you haven’t...
Low impact leg strength and cardio workouts
Introduction These two low impact workouts do not include any jumping exercises, and therefore will allow you to build leg strength without risking any injury to muscles and joints. Make sure that...
The Plant-Powered Diet Transformation
When it comes to advice on healthy eating, particularly with a focus on losing weight, I offer my clients the chance to take my Plant-powered Diet Transformation course. This is a...
Exercise for cardiac rehabilitation
Introduction As I’ve written in previous blogs (click here), coronary heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK. Not only that, there are 2.3 million people in the UK, who are living with...
Exercise and coronary heart disease risk
Introduction In the last blog (click here) I looked at the prevalence and development of coronary heart disease (CHD). I stated that the modifiable CHD risk factors are: Being physically inactive...
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