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Monday, February 8th, 2010Welcome to Health & Fitness magazine’s three-month Shape Up Challenge! Download Part One of the Shape Up Challenge now, and get on your way to a fitter, healthier and sexier you!
Personal Training: 7th training attendance weekend
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Hurrah! I’m almost at the end of my course and it’s amazing to think I’ll soon be able to take on clients – and get paid for helping them!
Personal Training: 6th training attendance weekend
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010My latest attendance weekend was a fairly tough experience, with two nutrition exams, both practical and theoretical lessons on how to help clients come back from injury, and much time spent playing catch up from the weekend I’d missed last month.
Studying to be a personal trainer: 5th Attendance weekend
Monday, November 30th, 2009Training part-time to be a PT has so far spanned four months and I have another three months to go, so it was bound to happen that one of my attendance weekends clashed with a holiday or illness, or both in my case.
Jade Johnson – The FULL interview online
Thursday, November 5th, 2009The Olympic long jump athlete, 29, talks about swapping the sand pit for sequins on Strictly Come Dancing’s stage, and how it’s affecting her body and fitness
Studying to be a personal trainer: 4th Attendance weekend
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009After qualifying as a gym instructor my latest attendance weekend threw me in to the real business of becoming a personal trainer – and boy, was it fun!
Ski for free!
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Never got round to learning to ski? Here’s your chance. Fresher’s Ski Week, set up by the Association of Snow Sports Countries (ASC), is offering 650 ski virgins the chance to learn the sport free of charge in one of 30 resorts in Andorra, Austria, France, Finland, Norway or Sweden. All you have to do [...]
Studying to be a personal trainer: 3rd Attendance weekend
Monday, September 28th, 2009After four months of studying, I’ve completed the first part of my course and I am now a fully-qualified gym instructor. Woo hoo! The achievement only sank in after I received a lovely certificate through the post (my mum and dad were so proud), and it’s exciting to think I could now go and work [...]
Visiting UK’s top 10 cities burns more calories than running a marathon
Friday, September 11th, 2009Better known as a busy industrial centre and for its bustling university life, today Leeds can also add healthy living to its tourist credentials as it is named the top UK holiday spot for keeping cultured and fit. It topped MBT’s list of the top 10 UK’s most popular tourist cities, which if you visited [...]
Studying to be a personal trainer: 2nd Attendance weekend
Thursday, August 20th, 2009All fitness and gym instructors need to have an up-to-date Certificate in First Aid so they are prepared for any accidents happen in the gym, so I found myself spending a whole day of my second assessment weekend practising CPR on dummies, rolling my classmates into the recovery position and wrapping them up with slings [...]
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