Tips and how-to articles for personal training and nutrition

Better ways to use Hove park outdoor gym

07.03.10 Posted in Fitness Plans, How-to by michellenewitt

here’s a few ideas on how to ramp it up a notch and get some serious results. The following 4 exercises could be performed like a circuit, repeated 10 times with no rest, adding in a warm up run around Hove park and cool down too. Total workout time 30-40 minutes!


D.I.Y Fitness Testing

05.12.10 Posted in How-to by michellenewitt

Measuring your resting heart rate (or pulse) when you’re at rest is a good way to assess your cardiovascular fitness because the stronger your heart is, the fewer times a minute it has to pump to send blood around your body.


A New Way of Seeing Nutrition

04.29.10 Posted in Latest Research, News, Nutrition by michellenewitt

Myth #1: The best way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more.
This formula intuitively sounds correct but is woefully incomplete. For the majority of people this approach fails over and over again. If it could work long-term it would have done so long ago.


A quick outdoor training plan

04.10.10 Posted in Fitness Plans, How-to by michellenewitt

You’ll need to find a good playground for this one…

Warm up jog/ cycle for 10 minutes

Squat jumps – find a park bench, bottom of the slide, anything that requires a bit of a jump to get onto (make sure it’s stable!) and then perform 20 jumps, landing in a deep squat on the ground and a perfectly balanced squat on the object.


Warning: trash mag diet tips!

03.08.10 Posted in News by michellenewitt

I was really shocked when I picked up a copy of ‘Bella’ this week in a waiting room. On page 18 the article title read ‘the four-week stomach-shrinking plan’ and as I was reading it I was growing more and more annoyed at the tenuously linked, false claims about supplements you should take and foods you [...]


Which protein shake?

02.10.10 Posted in News by michellenewitt

I just tried a great new protein shake by Sci-MX called GRS-5 Protein System and out of all the shakes I’ve tried during my time as a personal trainer this has to top the list for quality, flavour and mixability.
So get yourself down to Performance Foods (opposite Hove Library on Church Road) where you can [...]


Get fit 4 free

01.05.10 Posted in Classes by michellenewitt

Boxercise class at Sweaty Betty (Brighton) every Wednesday at 6:15pm


Pomegranate power

12.29.09 Posted in News, Nutrition by michellenewitt

Check out the latest top antioxidant fact!
“according to scientists, pomegranates have about three times the antioxidant levels of red wine and green tea, which are both renowned for their health benefits”
Antioxidants are the naturally occuring substances in plants that protect the body from harmful free radicals. Produced by the body when cells use oxygen, free [...]


Offers for Christmas 2009

12.10.09 Posted in Offers by michellenewitt

Stuck for a present idea? Check out my Christmas offers for 2009


Discover your body-mind type

12.08.09 Posted in How-to by michellenewitt

The results of this test will give you an idea about how balanced your health is at the moment.