Category: Fitness Advice

Half Marathon Training With Mike Buss | Part 5

Follow Mike Buss, World Record Breaking Endurance Athlete over the next 2 weeks, giving you top advice for your preparations for this year’s Half Marathon training. TWO WEEKS TO GO – Final Preparation: It’s only a couple of weeks to go, so you should be right on top of your training. You should be aiming […]

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Half Marathon Traininng With Mike Buss | Part 4

Follow Mike Buss, World Record Breaking Endurance Athlete over the next 3 weeks, giving you top advice for your preparations for this year’s Half Marathon training. THREE WEEKS TO GO – Weight Training: When it comes to distance runners, weight training usually gets put to one side, on the assumption it will make the runner […]

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Half Marathon Training With Mike Buss | Part 3

Half Marathon training with Mike Buss – Ultra Endurance Athlete and Multiple World Record Breaker: Follow Mike over the next 4 weeks, giving you top advice for your preparations for this year’s 2009 Swindon Half Marathon. FOUR WEEKS TO GO – Stretching: Stretching for running is just as important as the rest of your training. […]

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Half Marathon Training With Mike Buss | Part 2

Follow Mike Buss, World Record Breaking Endurance Athlete over the next 5 weeks, giving you top advice for your preparations for this year’s Half Marathon training. FIVE WEEKS TO GO – Nutrition: You shouldn’t have any need to diet, just eat sensibly, and remember you are entering a half marathon so the training you are […]

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Half Marathon Training With Mike Buss | Part 1

Follow Mike over the next six weeks, giving you top advice for your preparations for your next Half Marathon. SIX WEEKS TO GO – The 5 Ps – Prior Planning & Preparation Prevents Poor Performance: So you’ve decided to run! Great news, if you haven’t signed up to a half marathon yet why not try […]

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Heart of The Matter

The heart lies at the centre of the cardiovascular system, which also comprises of the lungs and the circulatory vessels (veins & arteries).  One of the major roles of the cardiovascular system is to supply oxygen to the muscles.  For only when oxygen is present can the muscles work efficiently.  The more oxygen the CV […]

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FATfactor

Excess weight is a prime coronary risk factor and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people every year. The priority of fitness professionals like myself, is to make aware to everybody the risks and eliminate them by ensuring that you reach your optimal weight through a sensible eating plan (not a diet) and […]

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Sweet Smell of Success

Phones ringing ever 5mins, walking into the office to hundreds of emails every day, deadlines to beat, mortgage payments…  Now take yourself a million miles away from this, lying on your bed under the influence of lavender oil, dreaming of being far away on a secluded beach. Lavender is probably the best known of all […]

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The Good Old PRESS-UP

What is a press-up I here you ask? The next time you go to your local gym, have a good look around and see if anyone is doing the good old press-up anymore, well not in most gyms. Most gym users are blinded by the sophisticated modern gym equipment nowadays that the old press up, […]

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Hitting HARD

Yoga is out and hardcore workouts are in!  Bootcamp, fitness, circuit training, spinning and boxing.  This article is dedicated to boxing training, so grab your gloves and get ready to SWEAT! Hardcore training has continued to become extremely popular and accessories like boxing gloves, heart rate monitors, skip ropes and kettlebells. Gyms too such as […]

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