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PTHub now FREE for Personal Trainers

PTHub Personal Trainer Directory is NOW FREE to all UK Independent PTs.

With over £15,000 of new business referred to new PTs last month alone (thats 42 new clients introduced free of charge during March 2009) a Free account on PTHub is becoming an extremely popular way for PTs to promote themselves online

PTHub is becoming a strong site in Search Engines appearing on Page 1 or 2 for search terms like Personal Trainer, Find a Personal Trainer, Find a Gym, Personal Trainer Forum, Personal Trainer Birmingham and many many more listings.

All PTs get a full free webpage to promote themselves on, backed by a FREE 9 - 5 Monday to Friday support line for new clients to call.

PTs can register a FREE account by clicking here - Personal Trainer Directory Register

PTHub at Fit Pro April 2009

PTHub.co.uk will be exhibiting at the Fit Pro Convention this April 17 - 19th.
Whats more, Personal Trainers and Fitness Professionals will have the chance to win over £1000 of Fitness Goodies from the PTHub stand

We’ll be giving away loads of prizes including

A Pair of the latest Running Trainers donated by Up and Running in Birmingham
Some Cycling Accessories donated by Evans Cycles in Birmingham
Maximuscle Nutritional Products - From Maximuscle
FREE PTHub Promotion - From Us!!!

and much much more - we’ll announce the other prizes in the Fitness Forum

So if you are coming along to FitPro, make sure you drop by stand 10 and say hello

Back to Basics - Nutrition

Back to Basics

 

There are 24,000 different diet books on the shelves today. Magazines tell us about the latest celebrities doing no carbs, all carbs or some carbs. Confused? You’re not alone! Lets get back to basics.

 

Why do we need to eat? We are made up of trillions of living cells. We make 3 million new cells every second. The physiological reason why we eat is to provide our bodies with the vitamins, minerals and nutrients it needs to make the cells that make up our bodies. It makes sense then that the food we eat needs to be full of life and nutrition if it is going to serve our body well.

 

Processed, pre-packaged fast foods have little to no nutrition left in them. These foods are cooked to high temperatures to kill bacteria and to get them ready for a long shelf life. This process actually kills off nearly all the good enzymes and nutrition. So when we eat these foods, we are not providing our body with what it needs to make healthy cells – the only use for these foods is as stored fat!

 

So what should you eat? Quite simply, it takes life to give life. Food which is or has been alive and is minimally processed by humans, which includes all your vegetables, salad, fruit, beans, pulses, whole grains, fish, meat and plenty of water. If it’s fresh it’s good! Unlike processed food, the body breaks down fresh food slowly, utilising the nutrition and releasing calories at an even rate so that they don’t store. Fresh food also keeps us fuller longer, reducing our desire for sugary or processed snacks. So before you eat, ask yourself this question: how is this food serving my body?

 

Processed food is popular because it fits in with our busy lifestyle. But eating fresh is easier than you think – preparation is the key. With shops open 24 hours a day and delivering to your door there is no excuse for not having fresh food in your home. Most supermarkets stock prepared fresh vegetables, which although not quite as good as unprepared, allows you to make a stir fry quicker than you can order and fetch your take away!

 

Eating fresh, vibrant foods is not a diet – it’s a lifestyle. Eating with family and friends and enjoying the taste of our food is extremely important. That’s why no food is ‘banned’. If you stick to the 80/20 rule where you eat fresh, healthy foods 80% of the time, your body will be getting what it needs to be strong and healthy and will be able to cope with the other 20%.

 

For more information on all you have read please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Kate Walker - Sutton Coldfield Personal Trainer

e-mail – katewalker@lifestyle-pa.com

web - www.lifestyle-pa.com

Health and Fitness Top 10 Tips

In today’s society of hectic lives and quick fix foods, health and fitness is just a passing thought.

 

Hours in the office? No time to get fit? Bored of feeling lethargic and never having you time? Surely you deserve to feel alive and not have that daily brain fog that seems to be the norm!

 

Why not try one more of the following, 10 simple and effective ideas, surely it can’t hurt!

 

1) Stand Tall

How we hold ourselves effects how we feel and perceive the world. Holding good posture increases the air flow to the body and creates a sense of balance and wellbeing.

 

2) Eat foods that are alive

Processed foods do not nourish the body, any food that has been processed by humans fall into this category. We make 3 million cells every second, what do you want your cells to be made up from?

 

3) Eat 3 meals a day

If you skip meals your body will store fat, just in case you are trying to starve yourself, your body is very clever and can’t be fooled!

 

4) Portion size

Everything contains calories even vegetables. To large a portion will store as fat as the body cannot deal with it all at once.

 

5) Be Prepared

Plan meals so you have food available that’s quick, easy and nutritious. If unprepared food generally consists of fast food and take away’s that are processed and nutritionally dead. (Remember the 3 million cells a second?)

 

6) Drink 1.5 Litres of H2O per day.

If we are dehydrated, our insides become like a raisin, dried up and congealed together.

 

7) Move

Be active 5 – 7 times per week, this does not mean a marathon, but anything that involves increasing your heart rate, walking to the office, swimming. Incorporate this into your life, on a fine day get of the bus a stop earlier and walk that extra bit to work, if possible walk the kids to school and use the stairs instead of the lift!

 

Sleep

The body recovers and heals between 10pm and 6am. We need to get sufficient recovery so we can start the day at full capacity.

 

9) Minimise Caffeine

Caffeine unnaturally stimulates the body, but it also steals many vital nutrients.

 

10) Your worth it

You must believe in yourself and ensure you make time for you. Without a fully functioning body, you won’t be able to do all you want. Just like a car, your body needs maintenance and care to get unlimited mileage.

 

For more information on all you have read please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Kate Walker - Sutton Coldfield Personal Trainer

e-mail – katewalker@lifestyle-pa.com

web - www.lifestyle-pa.com