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About Barnsley Personal Trainer

Personal Trainer - Private Gym – Barnsley - Dedicated to Natural Health and Fitness. Providing the environment conductive to the change you've already decided to make.

What is The Best AB Exercise To Get A Six Pack?

Answer = No AB Exercise! No amount of crunches will help you get a flat stomach if you don’t eat the right foods. What about other exercises? Long boring cardio workouts often result in little progress and disappointment. You can’t … Continue reading

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Always Choose Free Weights Before Machines

Using free weights instead of gym machines requires more effort and a greater recruitment of muscles particularly from the core. Using free weights also has a higher calorie demand and gives you alternatives for the same movement patterns.

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Exercise Technique

Aiming to achieve personal records in number of reps or weight lifted at any cost is the fastest way to become injured. Enthusiasm can often get in the way of the basic rules. To help stay injury free and keep … Continue reading

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A Daily Can of Diet Fizzy Drink ‘Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Stroke’

Those who drink diet soft drinks daily are ’43 per cent more likely’ to have heart attacks. Carbonated drinks can cause long-term liver damage similar to that of chronic alcoholism. Read more You may also be interested in this previous … Continue reading

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The Need For Variety

An exercise programme is only as good as the time it takes you to adapt to it. As a general rule it is best to change your programme every two to three weeks. A beginner can make progress for much … Continue reading

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Extremely Low-Calorie Diets

If your goal is weight loss, pounds lost on the scale can be misleading. For example, if you follow an extremely low-calorie diet you will lose glycogen and water giving the impression of fast progress. If you continue following this … Continue reading

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Grazing

It isn’t necessary to eat up to 6 small meals a day to speed up the metabolism or to keep cravings under control. Some people do better than others at snacking in-between their meals. Daily energy expenditure and the combination … Continue reading

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Willpower

Obstacles are just things you see when you lose sight of your goals.

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New Years Resolutions

There’s just over a week left to go to get the hardest month out-of-the-way if you have started your New Years resolutions. Don’t give up now – it will seem a lot easier the longer you stick to your plan! … Continue reading

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Medicine Ball Walkouts

A tough exercise for the abs Put a medicine ball at your feet. Push your hips back without rounding your lower back. Place your hands on the med ball and slowly start walking your hands on top of the med … Continue reading

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