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How What Your Clients Eat Before Bed Could Transform Their Recovery The Problem Most Trainers Miss Your client arrives for their session looking tired. Not from the previous day’s training, but from sleeping poorly. They’ve been lifting consistently for twelve weeks. Their nutrition has been dialled in. They’re hitting their...
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What the Latest Research Means for Your Clients If you’ve been a personal trainer for any length of time, you’ll have fielded this question more than once. “Should I be taking creatine?” And for most of us, the answer has been fairly straightforward. Yes, it’s one of the most well-researched...
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Not All Sets Are Created Equal Walk into any gym where the regulars take their training seriously and you will hear the same conversation playing out somewhere between the squat rack and the cable station. “How many sets should I be doing?” followed closely by “Should I train chest twice...
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2026 Update What’s Shaping Fitness This Year Alright, we’ll hold our hands up. This article usually lands in January, fresh off the back of the new year buzz, when everyone’s full of good intentions and gym car parks are heaving. But here we are in March, fashionably late and arguably...
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The Strength Test That May Predict How Long You Live When we talk about strength training, it’s often centred around performance or physique goals. People want to lift heavier weights, build muscle or improve athletic performance. Those outcomes are valuable, yet research over the past two decades has steadily revealed...
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Walk into almost any gym where the clients are serious about size and you’ll hear the same familiar advice on repeat: keep protein high, train hard and don’t skimp on carbs. Rice tubs, oats, bagels, pasta, sports drinks, intra-workout powders. Carbohydrates often sit right in the middle of the “muscle...
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Most people train for something immediate. A holiday. A wedding. A photoshoot. A race. A number on the scales. Very few people train for their seventies. But the good news is, science is starting to show us that training now is going to help us later. Not in a dramatic,...
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The 82-Year-Old Who Quietly Changed the Conversation Earlier this year, The Washington Post profiled Juan López García, an 82-year-old ultramarathon runner from Toledo whose physiology has caught the attention of researchers across Europe. His VO₂ max sits at a level typically seen in healthy adults decades younger. His aerobic capacity...
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There’s a moment many of us as fitness professionals will no doubt recognise. A client shares that she’s pregnant, and almost overnight the training conversation changes dramatically. Heavy lifts disappear. Confidence wobbles. Sessions quietly turn into cautious walking, light stretching and a general sense of “let’s not do much, just...
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Rates of mental health difficulties among adolescents have risen sharply over the last decade. Anxiety, low mood, poor self-esteem and emotional dysregulation now show up regularly in schools, sports clubs and gyms. Social media pressure, disrupted sleep, reduced unstructured play, academic stress, long screen time and fewer opportunities for physical...
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