AUTHOR
Having been in the fitness industry for over 30 years, Steele is a Co-founder of TRAINFITNESS. He was one of the first Personal Trainers in Brisbance Australia back in the '90s. On moving to the United Kingdom in 2000, he started work at London's Harbour Club where he quickly became a well known for training many celebrities including Mel B, Bjork, Elle Macpherson, Max Beesley, Melanie Sykes and many more. He was a presenter on the FAt Academy televions show in 2003. His passion lies in nutrition and healthy living, being a strong advocate for micro-stresses placed on the body to stimulate mitochondrial health.
Fifteen per cent. That’s how much one of the calf muscles grew in eight weeks in a group of young women who only ever trained the bottom half of a calf raise. A second group, doing the same exercise through a full range, managed less than seven. For decades the…
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Get in. Three minutes. Breathe. You’ve probably seen it in a thousand social media clips, usually filmed in a garden or a gym car park, with someone lowering themselves into a tub of icy water straight after a training session. It could have been Wim Hof, Harry Styles, Lady Gaga…
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Few shoulder problems come with as much hearsay as frozen shoulder. It freezes, it stays frozen and then it thaws, which can take a while, and the advice is often little more than patience. The trouble is that the hearsay is not the best advice. Researchers who looked at whether…
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“Shoulders back, chest up.” It may be the most common cue we use, and of course, it’s coming from a place of wanting to ensure safety through good technique. We say it because a tall, open posture looks strong, and because someone once said it to us. The trouble is…
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Eighty per cent. That’s the share of UK secondary schools still putting fitness testing into the PE curriculum, from a survey of 260 of them across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. What’s even more interesting is that sixty-two per cent of those PE teachers either agreed that fitness testing…
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