Circuit Training, more beneficial than an hour in the gym!
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When you go to sign up at a gym, the question you need to ask yourself is; “what do I want to gain?’. For some, a gym might suit them, if you are relatively self motivated and able to plan your own workouts, you’ll be able to socialise and use expensive gym equipment. If, however you have specific goal, are not very motivated and struggle to find the willpower to workout. Don’t waste your money on an expensive gym contract, you know what is going to happen and the only one who gains, is the gym. The whole point is that YOU gain, YOU benefit and YOU reach your goals.
Weight training is this super scary, underworld activity performed by huge muscle bound men and looking at a dumbbell is enough to build huge muscles! The truth is, as any man will know who’s tried to gain muscle, it’s not quite so easy.
Weight training is an excellent way to reduce body fat, tone up, firm up and increase muscular strength and fitness. If you are a women concerned about using weights for your workout or to lose weight, it’s time to think again, it’s one of the most effective methods to stimulate weight loss and maintain your desired weight.
The difference between the huge weight lifters and women wanting to lose weight and tone up. When it comes to training it’s all about freqancy & intensity or more simply reps, sets & weight. Its how we train not the training that will dictate muscle size, tone and strength.
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Quite simply, your peak flow is the maximum flow rate during a forced expiration, this gives an indication of the size and power of your lungs. Commonly used for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma. It can also be useful in understanding a person’s lung function ability and progression. Having a good level of physical activity helps to increase your lung function. It is impaired by smoking, if you have a cold or various pulmonary disorders, or as mentioned, Asthma.
Your Peak Flow reading is taken and recorded as part of the Kiss Fitness Health MOT, part of the personal training consultation.
This is just one method for testing your body composition, it is, however a very convenient and portable way of performing a body composition assessment to determine body fat percentage, total body water and fat-free mass.
In this method you are either connected to electrodes on your hands and feet or use a cheaper alternative in the form of scales or hand held devices, a small current (about 0.4-0.8 amps) is passed though the body, it’s OK, you won’t feel anything. Whichever devioce is used, they all achieve the same things with varying accuracy and likewise range in price from affordable to very expensive. The electrodes measure resistance as it passes through the body, it works on the principle that the resistance is inversely related to fat-free mass contained within the body, a body fat percentage can then be calculated.
Remember going to the doctors and having the blood pressure cuff put on your arm, makes you feel a little nervous and sometimes increases your blood pressure just thinking about it, that cuff and the machine or hand pump it’s connected to measures your blood pressure. Blood pressure is the pressure of blood in your arteries, the transport system that takes your blood from your heart to your brain and the rest of your body.
Your Blood Pressure readings are taken and recorded as part of the Kiss Fitness Health MOT, part of the personal training consultation.
While body mass index (BMI) is a good way to tell if you’re a healthy weight. This does not however tell us much about where the fat is stored which can be a greater concern to our health. We store spare body fat under the skin, and also around the vital organs in our abdomen. We now know that this fat around the abdomen causes more health problems than, say, fat carried around the bottom or on the thighs. Having a large amount of tummy fat (when compared to having fat around the bottom or thighs) makes you more likely to develop type 2 diabetes and heart problems. If you carry excess weight around your abdomen, that means you’re an “apple” shape. Those who carry excess fat around the bottom and thighs are “pear” shaped.
Body Mass Index is essentially a basic calculation between your height and weight that determines…
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