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 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.


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.


How to fuel your workouts

10.10.09 Posted in How-to by michellenewitt

Sports nutrition can be complicated and with so much information out there it can be hard to decide what’s right for you and your activity so I’ve selected some basic principles that apply to nearly every sport.


How to make your own sports drink

09.15.09 Posted in Downloads, How-to, Recipes by michellenewitt

It’s so easy to make a sports drink to increase performance without spending money on the artificial rubbish out there but you need to know the recipe and exact amounts otherwise you could harm (rather than help) your performance.
Firstly, you need to decide what you want your sports drink to do. This will depend on intensity, [...]