Weight loss

If you have made the decision to lose weight, then we can help you gain the results you desire. By doing regular exercise and eating the correct food at the right times, you can gradually lose weight safely, making sure the weight you lose is bad weight. Crash diets can make you lose weight, but you can lose a lot of muscle, leaving lots of your fat, and this in turn leads to yo-yo dieting. The worst thing you can do is spend your whole life dieting, and in the long run, not lose any weight. By taking contoll of your diet and exercising, you will have more energy, burn more fat and feel better.

Resistance training

Resistance training is a crucial part of burning fat, weight control and vitality. By using your muscle, you burn more calories. Muscle becomes dormant if you don't use it, so your ability to burn fat will go down. By using your muscles you increase muscle tone, so you muscles will be using more energy. This means that all day every day, with the right diet, you will have more muscle working, so burn more bodyfat. It is only your muscles that can burn fat, so for example, when you do cardiovasculer work, like cycling or jogging, you have more muscle burning calories, so you make better use of your time. It is therefor vital that resistance work is done in conjunction with cardiovascular work and a good diet.

Nutrition advice

What you eat is what you are. We can help you adjust your diet so you are giving your body the right amount of protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals so your body can work the way you need it to. It is very important that you have the right amount of energy to get you through the day, without storing it as fat. When your doing any physical activity, you need the energy to get you through, and you need the right food to help your body recover. If this is done correctly you will be able to train regularly, your metabolism will be faster and you will be able to control your weight. By keeping track of your food intake, your weight and body size can be adjusted to keep you on track of your goals.

Cardiovascular training

Cardiovascular training keeps you fit, it works your heart and lungs and helps you stay healthy. When you are doing the cardio, your lungs are taking oxygen in to your blood, and your heart is pumping the blood around you body to your muscles which are burning calories and working to allow you to do that activity. Therefore, the more muscle you have working, the more calories you will burn. So it very important to do cardiovascular activities, and you make better use of your time by combining it with resistance training and a good diet.

Circuit training

Circuit training is a mix of resistance training and cardiovascular training. You are doing a series of exercises without rest. This means you are using your muscles like resistance training, but your heart rate remains high like cardiovasculer training. By using different or opposing muscles for each consecutive exercise it is possibe to continue training without failure due to lactic acid. This is very good for using as part of your exercise regime. Beginners will benefit from working on individual exercises until they are good enough to carry them out correctly. Circuit training, because of its continuous nature, allows for poor technique, which can lead to injuries. This is why it is very important for people to have coaching on exercises and body movements before taking part in classes where the individual attention that can be given by the instructor is very limited. When used as part of a varied fitness plan, circuit training can be very effective.

Kickboxing

Kick boxing can be used as kind of cardiovascular workout requiring more skill and co-ordination. Most people who train, whether if they have done anything like this before, enjoy doing it. It is a good way of releasing tension and anger, while giving a sence of achievement in learning new skills and having your body work different way. It also works you very hard, and is a good way of improving your fitness.

Flexibility

You will learn a variety of stretches for all of your major muscles. Stretching is very important to avoid injury and maintain good posture and exercise technique. Assisted stretches will performed by the instructor where needed to acheive the correct flexibilty reauired of the client.

Life coaching

Everyone needs a coach; someone who believes in your abilities but can also help you set clear goals towards achieving the life you want. Having helped you to identify these goals, we will help you to prioritise them and encourage you to believe that they really are achievable. By working on your health and fitness, stress management and diet, you can aim to get where you want. Sometimes we limit ourselves and cap our potential. Many talented people develop the belief that they are destined to remain in their current situation. This is usually the problem. Life coaching helps you to break negative belief patterns and set challenging aspirations. For example, many people want to lose weight, as a goal, this is fine as far as it goes. However, what we often forget is that in order to achieve this ultimate goal, we might need to develop focus, improve our fitness and balance our lives in the process. Coaching can help you to set goals by asking yourself such questions as;

What is it that i want?

For what exact purpose?

What am I prepared to do/do without?

Values are a key aspect of coaching. Coaching will encourage you, motivate and support and sometimes challenge you. Your coach will want you to succeed but only you can do it.

The laws of physics state that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it simply changes its form. Through life coaching, you will be working on channeling your energy into a more effective form. The simple truth is that what you want is out there waiting for you to grasp it.