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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

20 Common Workout Mistakes & Solutions

The last few weeks I have been really getting into and writing about the nutritional sides of things. There is so much to be said about nutrition and all of the new research and discoveries that have been made in the field; it is an exciting and scary time. But I am going back to exercise this week. Firstly I want to say I'm not here to judge anyone. I have made all these mistakes myself at some point; lets say these are just observations.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

The 5 Signs You are Holding Water and 3 Fast Solutions Anyone Can Follow

Water Water Everywhere! 10 Causes of Water Retention I have had several messages specifically regarding Water Retention. So I will try to explain what the main causes are and what you can do about it. Firstly I must state that I am a personal trainer not a doctor, so I will give you this based on my understanding, and lots of help from the internet!

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Are Wheat & Gluten Killing You Slowly?

Times are starting to evolve and people are starting to move away from the conventional one size fits all government eating guidelines such as the food pyramid or more recently the food plate.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

How Exercise Reduces Stress

Research proves that regular exercise can offer many psychological and physiological benefits. Feeling psychologically (mentally) good makes life a lot more enjoyable. A bad day at work, an argument with your partner, financial issues etc. can lead to increased levels of stress. Stress can be defined as ‘an imbalance in physiological systems that activates physiological and behavioural responses to restore balance.’

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Going Organic, Is It Worth The Bother

My parents told me, once upon a time all food was naturally organic, then “they” (the 'evil' food companies) started using pesticides and preservatives and they said “you can eat fruit all year round” and “this stuff is better because it lasts longer”, and charged us more for it. Now they take the pesticides and preservatives away and call it organic, and you guessed, charge us more for it! Okay firstly what does organic actually mean?

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

5 Ways to Power Up Your Workouts

The gym, a place of titanic struggles, epic distances, blood, sweat and sometimes tears! It is a place you go to improve yourself. As a personal trainer I put 100% effort into my workouts and expect the same from my clients when I challenge them with a workout. Did you know that a massive 60% of adults in the UK are obese? That worries me, seriously, how could things have got this bad. The fast food craze seems to have taken over. People more often than not will go for speed and convenience over planning and preparation.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Give Old Muscles A New Lease Of Life

Do you feel tense? Maybe you feel tight across the upper back between the shoulder blades, or perhaps it’s more of a stiff lower back, hips and legs. Tight muscles create numerous problems throughout the body from aches and pain to reduced oxygen and blood flow to the tight area. Soft tissue is an area I have been studying for a very long time. Today I will share some of my experience and offer you my top solutions to help you reduce the amount of tension you may have in your body, we will discuss something called FASCIA.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

She Hated Exercise

I took on a new personal training client earlier in the summer, and she point blank told me that she “hated exercise, and everything to do with it!” She said she had slogged away in the gym for years, up to 90 minutes, three times a week and hated every minute of it, and seeing very little by the way of results. (She was about to sign up to one of my 6 month coaching programmes, so was very relieved when I told her that exercise is the smallest component of the programme and we would be doing just 60 minutes per week. Find out how she got on below)

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

The Single Best Exercise You Can Do

The title of ‘Number One Exercise’ is a pretty big one but hopefully after reading this article you will only be able to agree with me. There are thousands of exercises you can do to give you great results but in my experience this exercise yields the BEST results. This exercise is the good old SQUAT. There are many different squat variations you can do (I will discuss a few of them later) but on the whole the benefits you can get from squatting are massive. What’s so good about the squat?

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

7 Steps to Relaxing Naturally

Relaxation…without drugs or alcohol. When I was growing up in my teenage and student year’s people would relax by taking drugs of some sort, prescribed, legal and illegal. I want to differentiate between natural relaxation and chemical relaxatio Most evenings people have a routine which they go through to relax, sometimes it’s a simple thing like a nice hot bath, sometimes it takes something a little stronger.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Healthy Burger and Chips

I may have surprised you with the healthy burger and chips title. Healthy burger and chips? Is that possible. This isn’t even one of my cheat meals. This is just a healthy burger and chips recipe that I wanted to share with you, honestly it's delicious! One of the top reasons people HATE diets is they get BORED they feel like they’re stuck eating the usual salads, meat and veg again and again. It doesn't have to be that way and this recipe is proof of that.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Do You Have Toxic Teeth?

So today I want to talk about those nasty looking black fillings, or mercury amalgam fillings. I can guarantee that many of you reading this today have 1 or probably more mercury fillings in your mouth, if you do then you really want to be reading this. Before going onto fillings and the controversy surrounding them, I just want to talk about the substance Mercury. History of Mercury Mercury was used as ointment by 10th century Arabian physicians, it then made its way to Europe by the 13th century and was widely used by the year 1600.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Choose Between Death Or Change

Most people actually choose to die than to change their behaviour - fact. I know that is a strong statement but after reading this short article hopefully you will be able to see where I am coming from. So what about you? Are you UNABLE to stop eating or drinking booze? If so, don’t sweat, you are just like the majority of people in the western world today, they also ultimately choose death rather than to change their behaviour. Personally I can’t think of anything worse than being “just like everybody else” and just letting it happen. Many people in the Western World are:r

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Three Stress Busters

We live in a high paced, high stressed world. Most of us suffer from some sort of stress, myself included. Busy busy busy all of the time. Not even enough time to stop and take a deep breath and relax for a moment. Everyone working full time, longing for each day to be over so you can go home a rest, maybe with a glass of wine or a beer. Financial worries, work problems and family and social issues seem to get the better of a lot of people in the world today and understandably they struggle to cope. High levels of stress can lead to a whole host of serious health problems.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Top 10 Exercise Tips

Being a personal trainer exercise is one of the most important parts of my life. I experience the massive benefits of an active lifestyle which is the reason why I turned it into a career so others can experience the same benefits as me. Every so often people fall out of their exercise routine or maybe just need that little kick to start exercising regularly again! This week’s short and hopefully valuable post will give you ten TOP exercise tips for those of you who want to start going again or just need a bit of new advice:

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Good Housekeeping For Your Body

Through life as a personal trainer and health coach people often look up to me and see me as a role model when it comes to exercise and healthy eating. People often ask me questions like what do I have for breakfast, what do I do in the gym every day, why don't I ever fall off the 'health wagon' and a lot more! I'm happy to tell people the answers. For the record for breakfast I have a green vegetable smoothie 3-4 days a week. Training days I have fruit, nuts and bio/greek yoghurt, or sometimes I skip breakfast, or I have bacon and eggs or similar.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Anti Inflammatory Diet Plan

This article is all about inflammation. Some of our bodies are already on fire on the inside, and some of our habits are the same as throwing petrol on that fire. That’s what I will explain today – How to put that fire out, or at least get it back under control. Just to recap, inflammation is the body’s biological response of attempting to protect itself. It aims to remove harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells and irritants; this is the first step of the healing process.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

18 Foods You DON’T Need To Buy Organic

Organic eating can be more expensive than eating normal, so this list of foods in this article will be a lot easier on the pocket. Plus you will be safe in the knowledge that eating these foods won’t harm your health. The list of foods below will contain the least amount of pesticide residue when compared to other healthy foods. The lower the level of pesticide residue will mean the lower the amount of harmful chemicals that enter your body. These foods are not harmed by toxins so will not have lost so much of their nutritional goodness during the growing phase.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Obese Babies, Rats & 6 Foods You Should Eat Every Day

As you are all aware nutrition is absolutely vital to your health. I have found many people struggle with the nutritional side of things more than the exercise, in truth it is a bigger commitment as you have to be constantly making correct decisions to ensure you get the results, you eat around 25-35 meals a week, where as with exercise you only need to be training 3-5 times a week. So today I am going to discuss the foods that we eat.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

It’s ALL About Reducing Inflammation

What is Inflammation? Inflammation is the body’s biological response of attempting to protect itself. It aims to remove harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells and irritants; this is the first step of the healing process. Inflammations triggers a response from the immune system, initially inflammation is beneficial for protection but a lot of the time inflammation can lead to further inflammation which is bad. The five signs to look out for inflammation are pain, redness, heat, swelling and injured function! Chronic Inflammation

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

77 Year Old Grandmother Achieves Target Weight

I'm sure you all like to hear a nice story. (I read this story online) After the breakdown of her first marriage Brenda started putting on weight. When she reached 20 stone, she decided to go on a diet. Brenda now weighs 9 stone 9lbs and can finally fit into a size 10 dress. The interesting thing was – Brenda was 77 years old It had taken her 50 years to do it! She started her diet in her 20’s and reached her goal in her 70’s. Brenda said “The diet went well over the first few years” “but for the past 40 years I’ve been struggling to lose the last three stone.”r

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

5 Exercise’s to STOP Doing Now!

Here are the top 5 exercises to remove from your program right now. 1. Anything done with a rounded backr It doesn’t matter if you’re squatting, deadlifting, straight-leg deadlifting, rowing, or even doing triceps kickbacks, you must STOP doing these exercises with a rounded lower back. That’s a one-way ticket to a herniated disc. And you do not want to go there. So make sure that you brace your abs, and keep your back in the neutral position – and even with a slight arch in your low back – as you do dumbbell rows, deadlifts, squats, and Romanian Deadlifts (RDLs).

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Some Tips For Fast Weight Loss

1. Cut out soft drinks. They are useless calories. If you have to have a fizzy drink then mix fizzy water and squash or juice. The removal of soft drinks alone has been credited as removing the insulin-related belly fat of many a dieter. 2. Stop eating processed foods. Processed foods have so many additives, sugars, and other unnecessary and unhealthy ingredients that it really isn’t a worthwhile addition to the diet.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Always Tired? Burnout & Adrenal Fatigue Solutions

It seems many people in the western world are tired & stressed out. Are You Burnt Out? I’m going to ask you a few questions and I want you to answer honestly: Do you struggle to get up in the mornings? Still feeling tired even though you have been sleeping all night? Do you often feel rundown and fatigued during the day? So tired you could sleep? Do you crave and use salty and sweet foods as well as caffeine to get you through the day? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions it is likely that you may be suffering from Adrenal Fatigue or “Burnout”.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

4 Natural Health Remedies

During the change of the seasons, I don’t know why, but people seem to get ill more easily. There's always various colds and bugs going around that people keep catching. I used to have all sorts of drugs in my medicine cabinet to fix myself up. The usual suspects, paracetamol, lemsip, sudafed, vicks, co-codamol, cold and flu remedies and alike. We are apparently heading for “flu season”. I used to have the Flu Jab too. That’s until I learned how to look after myself, NATURALLY. Less medication has to be better in the long term.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Fat Doesn’t Make You Fat – This Does

Fat doesn’t make you Fat? Many people believe that the best way to lose fat is simply by cutting out fats from their diets. They have visions of the fat in their food clogging up their arteries. Most diet enthusiasts or people trying to eat healthy will look at the back of a packet see a high fat content and put it straight back on the shelf. I have heard people say “as long as its 3% fat or less I can have it”. They become blind to the fact that we need fats in our diet and are only conce ed in avoiding anything high in fat. Big mistake. Your brain is over 60% fat.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Why It’s Never Too Late To Start Exercise

The westernized world is pretty unhealthy. I come from Wales and more than a quarter of all over 40’s are obese. We are also an ageing nation, with around 45 per cent of us being over 45 years old. These figures, combined with the continued downward trend in activity levels, makes Wales a ticking time bomb when it comes to health and this is the same with many other countries today. We are getting older and sicker as a nation. As we get older, our bodies begin to change fast. Our muscles and bones become weaker, we get grey hair and wrinkles, and we get stiffer.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Food Truths & The Need to Detox

Today I would like to talk to you about food, not the good kinds. Our supermarkets are filled with food that has a nutritional value of, well nothing! Foods which are packed with chemicals, toxins and hydrogenated fat just to make them ‘tasty’ and more importantly convenient!

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Lose Weight, Feel Great, Have Better Sex – BHRT

I have some very exciting news for all people in their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. As many of you are aware, getting into shape does not simply come down to exercise and a healthy diet, there are other factors to consider. Our hormones play a huge part in our internal physiology, and if out of balance hormonally, it can make it more or less impossible to lose fat. Unfortunately when we age our body struggles in producing its natural hormones. These hormones include oestrogen, testosterone, progesterone, DHEA, human growth hormones, thyroid and melatonin.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Are You Too Scared To Improve?

One of my friends called in an expert trainer for one of their dogs last weekend. He told me there’s nothing particularly wrong with the dog, he’s just got a few things he’s scared of and ends up over-reacting. He was telling me what the trainer did with the dog. He was fascinated by how the trainer used the whole de-sensitisation and positive association process to “fix” the dog. Regular, mild exposure to the things that are scary, along with regular positive reinforcement solved the issues! I thought this was really interesting, that’s why I'm sharing it with you.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

6 Everyday Foods That Make You Fat

The world has a problem, obesity levels are through the roof. In some parts of the UK around 57% of people are either overweight or obese and in the US its 67%. By 2020 its reported to be around 70% and 80% respectively – now they are crazy statistics if you ask me. There is a human time bomb waiting to go off, I believe there are lots of people walking around with life threatening illnesses like cancer AND THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW IT! They are just weeks and months away from the big tap on the shoulder from the grim reaper which will change their lives forever.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Should You Train If You're Walking Like John Wayne?

Aching After Exercise? Leave Time To Recover Or Power Through? You remember John Wayne from the cowboy films don’t you? The way he used to walk after getting off his horse was like he had just done a viscous leg session down the gym! So today you have completed an intense session in the gym or maybe you have just got back from a vigorous run. Mentally you feel great, you know you have pushed your body hard and you feel better for it. You go to bed happy that you have moved one step closer to achieving your fitness goals … Great.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

He Has Boobs Bigger Than His Wife

The title of this week’s article may be a bit funny, but it is 100% true for at least one poor chap, and I’m sure there are many others just like him. It’s a male orientated article, but wives, mothers and girlfriends out there who know someone in their family suffering from this, should share this information around. A gentleman recently contacted me with a very personal question. Lucky for me he has a sense of humour, and with his permission, here it is… “Dear Richard,

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

10 Tips On How To Start Running

This article will tell you my top tips on how to get off your ass and out running around the streets! You will learn how to get fit safely by following these simple steps and only running two or three times per week. This is very important if you want to reduce the risk of injuring yourself…. 1. Invest in a good pair of running shoes. You don't have to buy the top of the range, but it's important to ensure that your shoes will provide sufficient cushioning to protect your back and lower limbs from injury. No fashion trainers with skinny soles!!

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Pros & Cons Of Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is defined as “the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat – red meat, poultry, seafood and the flesh of any other animal”. (1) In my experience ‘going veggie’ can be a double edged sword. It can lead to massive health benefits – when its done properly. I have vegetarian meals and entire vegetable days myself and they help me enormously. The biggest benefits from a plant based diet are: Raw food is good for you because of the enzymes and we need to eat more raw food than cooked.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

2 Weeks Off Exercise .... How To Regain Motivation

We all know how hard it is to get into a regular routine of exercising and we’ve probably all experienced how much easier it is to slip out of the routine and get into a habit of doing nothing. The great benefits that exercise offer are explained throughout many of the articles on this website so I don’t need to explain them in depth again.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

5 Great Alkaline Recipes

I’m sure we all remember from chemistry in school learning about acid and alkaline. For us as humans the harmful acids and toxins are unsurprisingly things we would like to avoid.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Talk Is Cheap: Walk The Walk This New Year

The new year is upon us! Being a personal trainer I’m looking forward to January, it’s always a busy time for me, meeting new people, who have set new goals and really trying to help them improve. Many people set New Year resolutions, what do you think the percentage is of people who succeed with their goals? I would say it probably isn’t an impressive statistic. ‘Talk is cheap, walk the walk this new year’

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

How to Train the Brain

In order to successfully adhere to a fitness programme you need to exercise well and eat well, but all that takes discipline and will power. You need to 100% commit to succeed. I would never have made it as an elite personal trainer in Swansea if I didn’t have the right mindset. Today I will share some tips on how to train your brain. Without the correct mindset you will easily be led astray and will easily cancel your exercise plans for a more appealing offer, once you have trained your mindset you will then be able to resist temptations and put your own health and fitness first.

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Get Lean for the Summer – Protein Powder – The Things You Really Need to Know

I’m not here to tell you which brand to buy but I am going to tell you which types of protein to buy and which times to take them because I speak to so many people who get it wrong – and it makes huge differences in your results – which is what its all about, isn’t it?

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

The Number One Abdominal Exercise

As a personal trainer when I meet a new client, I would say that many of them speak of their desire for a flatter stomach and weight loss. For the ladies many of you speak of a nice flat tummy with no visible pouch and to feel confident on holidays by the pool whereas the men out there aim to have a visible, muscular and more toned stomach. So this article is all about your abdominals and how to get them flatter – easier!

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Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Bloated? You Can Get A Flatter Belly By Tomorrow!

Hi there, hopefully you have some plans to do some good work on your body and goals in life. If you’re not progressing your regressing, remember this saying “It’s better to wear out than to rust out”. Whenever you are out socialising or in work I know you, like me, want to feel good about the way you look. We must all agree on one thing, one of the major reasons we attempt to be lean, fit, and healthy is so that we can feel good about the way we look. I also know that we want results fast – they call it our need for immediate gratification. We are only human!

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Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

5 Reasons Why Alcohol Makes You Less Attractive

There is no getting away from the fact that many people get excited by the prospect of finishing work on a Friday and going down the pub. I hear you say “many times alcohol consumption makes people look more attractive!” in the short term this may be true, however

Primary topic: Personal Trainers and Personal Training

Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

How You Can Be Lighter But Still Fatter

I was chatting with one of my personal training clients about these body transformation programmes and fast weight loss programmes. She told me she had been comparing her results to her friends. Her friend had lost two stone by just drinking shakes and eating bars and she had only lost a stone in 4 weeks, so she wasn’t too happy. Comparing yourself to others is often a bad idea. I used to do this myself too, many years ago. Anytime I went to the gym, I always felt inadequate. I compared myself to the biggest and strongest guys. So I felt I was the skinniest and the weakest.

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Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Oh No… My Diet Has Stopped Working!

What Can I Do? Ok so you have been doing really well, losing weight, exercising, getting in better shape, then……its all stops, the scales have not shifted for a while…..what can you do? I know ….cut back on food and do more exercise……another two weeks pass and still no weight loss, and now as well as lacking motivation because you are not seeing any results for all this “hard work”, you feel tired and weak also….what can you do to lose more weight….?

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Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

3 Tips to Get Rid of Cellulite

Today I will explain how and why cellulite takes hold and what you can do about it. The bane of some women’s lives it can make skin look less attractive, and from what I have been told, forcing some women into changing which clothes they choose to buy and wear. Cellulite causes bumps or an “orange peel” look to the surface of the skin. You will mostly find cellulite on the hips, thighs and legs, however, it can also be found on the stomach, upper arms and breast area.

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Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

First Steps From Sedentary Lifestyle To Exercise

The first few steps from a sedentary lifestyle to exercise are the hardest. For many people activities such as walking to the chip shop can be seen as daunting and difficult. So to change that attitude from lounging round the house watching TV mixed with a bad diet of fast foot and to an improved diet made up of good meals and healthy snacks along with actually going out and exercising may seem unlikely.

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Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

An Introduction To Core Stability

A guide to core strength training Poor posture is one of the biggest problems facing people's health in modern life. However, regular core stability exercise can improve your back muscles and your posture. Here's the realbuzz guide on getting started in core strength training exercise. How do you usually watch television? When watching TV, most people relax on a soft sofa for comfortable viewing but that is very different to the way in which a young child sits to watch TV. Children invariably watch TV sat on the floor, totally unsupported with a straight back.

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Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

Should You Starve Yourself to Lose Weight?

This is a questio I have been asked so many times being a personal trainer. In order to be a good personal trainer I need to make sure that the advice I give my client’s is as accurate, effective and up to date as possible. In my experience I get nearly as many questions from my client’s about nutrition as I do exercise.

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Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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By Richard ClarkeRecently published1 topic

How Old Are You Really? Biological Age

People have always been interested in being “forever young” and today’s society is no different. We want to resist the ageing process. The speed at which we are ageing can be measured – its called biological age, or how old your body really is. The area of study which is now called longevity, and was once called anti aging, is hugely popular in the states. It's something I’m very interested in, and see it as a big part of the future for myself and my clients. Your chronological age is how old you actually are. Biological age is the age of your body at the cellular level.

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Personal Trainers and Personal Training

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