Posture is the position in which we hold our bodies while standing, sitting, or lying down. Good posture is essential for maintaining the health and well-being of our bodies, while poor posture can cause a range of health issues such as back pain, neck pain, and headaches. In this blog, we’ll discuss four ways to improve your posture.
When it comes to achieving our fitness goals, we often push ourselves to the limit in the gym. However, it’s crucial to remember that safety should be our top priority. Nothing can derail your progress faster than a preventable injury. In this blog, we will explore practical tips and strategies to help you avoid common injuries in the gym, ensuring that your workouts are safe and effective.
The concept of preparing meals in advance, A.K.A ‘meal prepping’, has become an increasingly popular trend and an incredibly helpful healthy eating strategy. The hectic nature of today’s lifestyle makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to have enough time to cook your lunchtime meals at home each day. When you have a busy schedule, being caught without pre-prepared food can often lead you to grabbing the most convenient food option available for a quick fix– most likely take away or junk food.
Yoga, an ancient practice and meditation, has become increasingly popular in today’s busy society. With many forms of exercise and training coming and going, yoga is one that has stood the test of time, having been around for more than 5,000 years. The word yoga means ‘to join or yoke together’. It brings your body and mind together, and is built on three main elements – exercise, breathing and meditation.
As a personal trainer, it is important to monitor not just your client’s fitness levels, but also their basic nutrition, including sufficient hydration. However, while you may be preoccupied with their health, do not neglect your own in the process. Making sure you drink enough water benefits your wellbeing, which in turn, reflects on your performance when training your client.
There is no doubt that becoming a personal trainer can change someone’s life forever. By being a mentor, personal trainers develop a deep connection with clients, helping them reach their physical goals and becoming healthier in the process.
However, there is another side of personal training that is often overlooked – the power of improved mental health.
You don’t grow in the gym; you grow in recovery. You also get faster, leaner and stronger whilst you recover, so it is perfectly reasonable to prioritise recovery in a training program. And recovery doesn’t mean simply drinking a protein shake, it means rest, and there is no better way to rest than to sleep.
There is no doubt that becoming a personal trainer can change someone’s life forever. By being a mentor, personal trainers develop a deep connection with clients, helping them reach their physical goals and becoming healthier in the process.
However, there is another side of personal training that is often overlooked – the power of improved mental health.
As a health and fitness professional, it is vital that you are prepared for any eventuality when working with your clients. Whether you are in the gym, running the city streets or performing jumping jacks in the local park, you just never know what could happen at any given moment. Accidents can and do occur. Should someone fall and fracture their leg, or collapse with the symptoms of a heart attack, an ambulance should, of course, be called.
Alcohol can reduce the health benefits of exercise, affect performance and recovery. Our body is always going through muscle protein synthesis by either building new proteins or breaking down proteins for muscle repair. With resistance exercise we stimulate muscle protein synthesis, which causes our body to repair and super compensate so we gain muscle.
