Personal Trainer & Fitness Blog

We take a look at how Pilates can have a positive effect on your running and protect you from injury Running can take its toll on the body. Hours spent pounding the pavement, track or treadmill, , can have a detrimental effect on the body. Good recovery is vital to…

Throughout history, mankind has endeavoured to pursue the ultimate fitness goal: survival. The meaning of the term survival has changed over the years, with it’s interpretation becoming largely individualised based on personal needs and lifestyle demands. Despite this, at it’s most basic level, survival is still the same. In prehistoric…

Why Circuit Training is Good for You! Circuit training is a form of training where participants rotate through a number of stations, performing different exercises to time or repetitions, back to back, with minimum rest until the circuit is completed. There are various ways of constructing a circuit, but they…

How to Motivate Clients to Train Throughout Winter With the cold mornings and dark evenings well and truly upon us, consistent training can become difficult. It is our job as personal trainers to motivate and encourage each client to train on a regular basis, even throughout these cold spells. Throughout…

HIIT is the industry buzz word of 2016/17. It’s everywhere with every fitness guru, fanatic and icon espousing the benefits of HIIT training. In many ways they’re right, the benefits are clear, a total body calorie blitz that can be completed in under 20 minutes, with metabolism boosting benefits lasting…

TRAINFITNESS are excited to announce the launch of its new service, Career Concierge™. Through this service TRAINFITNESS offer greater support to students once they qualify, further improving the quality of learning experience with TRAINFITNESS. Career Concierge™ provides access to specialists in recruitment, insurance, clothing and digital marketing. The new service…

Preparation – Dedication – Organisation – Professionalism Choreography Impressions Time Keeping & Professionalism Delivery Technique After the final bell Being prepared to deliver a class is as important as actually delivering the class. A failure to prepare is only going to lead to an unhappy ending.  We asked Katy Moore,…

TRAINFITNESS today announced their latest international partnership with ECAF, Colombia.  The partnership will see ECAF delivering workshops of both T3 and fx exercise programmes to fitness professionals in Colombia. Through the partnership, fitness professionals will be trained in the delivery of T3 sessions and fx classes, enabling them to deliver…

Year on year the popularity and attendance of group exercise classes keeps on growing. Ranging from 30 minute fast classes through to hour long training sessions, this format of training can offer both physiological and psychological benefits as well as the social inclusion of attending a group exercise environment. Putting…

Stumbling across #mealprep is unavoidable.  A quick flick through social media and you can be certain to find plenty of images of pre-prepared meals; row upon row of containers filled to the brim with veg, protein, carbs, fruit, snacks and everything else in between. There are several possible reactions to…