Some people will make any excuse not to exercise during their busy working week, but accommodating a workout is easier than you think! Just a few minor lifestyle changes can make a major difference to your clients’ physical and mental wellbeing. In the second part of our two-blog series, we interviewed four fitness professionals to…
For many of your clients, the prospect of exercise is probably more daunting than the actual exercise itself. If they have a job and family to support, it often feels like there are only so many hours in the day – but there’s always time for exercise. While paying the bills is of huge importance…
Careful nutrition choices are key to improving your client’s health and fitness – but uninformed decisions might stop them getting the results they want. Nutritional advice is given so readily these days that it can be quite difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. But by not knowing the truth, your clients could be depriving…
Healthy body, healthy mind, as the saying goes – and it’s far from just a throwaway figure of speech. There’s a wealth of deep-rooted scientific evidence to support this statement. Sure, regular exercise is good for the body – but it’s also one of the most effective ways of improving and stabilising a person’s mental…
The margins between success and failure are very fine when it comes to exercise. So, a motivational song can be just the boost you need to maximise performance, keep your heart pumping and stay in the zone. Music’s ability to give you the edge during a workout has been extensively proven. A study from Dr…
With Spring well and truly sprung, and Summer just around the corner, more and more of us are choosing to exercise outside instead of in. But it’s not just those without a gym membership who should be making the most of it. There are lots of benefits of outdoor training, and if you’re a sports…
There isn’t a single personal trainer or fitness instructor out there who doesn’t want more clients. Fresh faces mean busier timetables, new goals, varying training schedules and of course, more income. New clients keep the job interesting, exciting and ultimately, rewarding. However, many personal trainers struggle to find more clients and are often left scratching…
Just like getting out of bed in the morning, the motivation to drag yourself to the gym can be lacking even on the best of days. But when it’s your job as a personal trainer to motivate people and keep their “eyes on the prize”, there’s simply no way you can have an “off” day.…
Jo Cooper, a fitness instructor and model based in Crawley, West Sussex, has quite the fitness pedigree. With credits including two front covers of Fitnorama magazine, data capture for Xbox’s Zumba Fitness World Party as well as a whole host of television appearances for programmes such as ITV’s Daybreak and Channel Four’s Sunday Brunch, Jo…
