Here at ATP Personal Training we’ve spent many years and thousands of hours observing personal trainers at work with their clients in commercial gyms. We’ve noticed that all kinds of personal trainers are loved by their clients because of the potent combination of camaraderie and endorphins, but neither of these require the trainer being very […]
If you are reading this article, it is probably fair to assume that you have at least a passing interest in health and fitness. You probably also know, therefore, that for some years now health experts have touted 10,000 steps as the goal for most adults to achieve daily in order to enjoy health benefits. […]
Here at ATP personal Training, we meet new clients every day and, although some have very specific reasons for choosing us, weight loss remains by far the most common client goal. What we find is that many of our clients have tried to lose weight before, some for many years, without success. Any yet many […]
How to get yourself going when you don’t really feel like it. Jump straight to the 7 tips Getting motivated to exercise relies on the same basic mental process as getting motivated to do anything else, whether it’s getting out of bed in the morning or even cleaning the house. It seems harder to do […]
How to keep up your fitness now that you can travel again Now that we are all have the travel bug again, many of us will be booking holidays, either to see friends and family after far too long apart, or just to enjoy the luxury of being in different or more exotic surroundings for […]
Diets don’t work – except in the short term You’ve probably heard an overweight person telling you that diets don’t work. Maybe you are that overweight person and you’ve found that diets don’t work for you. Well, you’re right! Diets don’t work, at least not in anything but the very short term. Why don’t diets […]
Can beginners lose weight with just one or do you need to both eat healthily and to exercise? Ask a room full of people this question and it will spark quite the debate! Some people think you can eat whatever you like if you just go for a run; others think that the only way […]
Menopause (or the end of a woman’s menstrual cycle) occurs for most women between the ages of about 45 to 55. It is something that every woman will go through but, for each of those women, it is a unique experience with many different symptoms and feelings attached. Pre-menopause: what is it? Peri-menopause: what happens […]
For those of us who want to be in better shape, lose a significant amount of weight or even make sustainable changes in order to be healthier or live longer, it can be hard to know where to start. Although we are bombarded with all kinds of information from magazines and the Internet, there is […]
Why is your weight loss stalling even though you feel like you are doing everything right at the gym? There are all kinds of reasons why people exercise; perhaps they are training for a specific event, maybe they are trying to stay healthy or injury-free, or they may just simply enjoy the positive feelings and […]