Clik here to view.
Personal Trainer Insurance Guide
If you’re a self-employed fitness trainer, even if you work on someone else’s premises, you need insurance to protect yourself financially from any legal claims made against you or in the event of you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
25 Ways To Live Longer
Managing director of Discovery Learning and national nutrition and weight management expert Alan Jackson explains twenty-five ways that we can all live longer and healthier… 1) “Frame your mind to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Get The Message Out There: There Is An Obesity Crisis In The UK
Alan Jackson, managing director of Discovery Learning and a national obesity expert, has created this free downloadable infographic to help fitness professionals illustrate to their clients or anyone...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Competition Nutrition Explained
Nutritional intake leading up to and during an event will play a significant role in performance on the day. Nutritional preparation for competition will depend upon the type of event and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
10 Things You Didn’t Know Were Killing You
As health and diet become increasingly important in modern society, it is vital that we all know what we put into our bodies. With many food and drink products describe themselves as “fat free”, or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Five Most Famous Bodybuilders To Admit Taking Steroids
You didn’t think all those huge bodybuilders with their superhuman physiques built those muscles just by exercising, working hard and eating the right food, did you? It’s said that ALL the top...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breast-fed Babies Become Smarter and Better Paid Adults, Study Shows
The first study in history to show that breastfeeding as a baby increases intelligence and earning power in adult life was recently published in The Lancet Global Health. All new or expecting mothers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The #5 Main Reasons To Stop Being Overweight
People who are overweight or obese can find many different people and information sources telling them why they need to lose weight and what potential health issues they need to avoid. Here we have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why The Way You Stand Is Damaging Your Body
When you stand about casually, you may unknowingly be inflicting long-term damage on your body and raising the chance of one day developing knee-joint pain, arthritis, hip-joint dysfunction, lower...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Being a fit obese person DOES NOT protect you from early death: A major study...
The results of a major study done by experts that lasted almost thirty years and looked at over a million men, published in December 2015, is now thought by many to have dispelled the myth that an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let’s Dispel These Five Old Wives’ Tales of Fitness
Health, fitness and exercise are complicated topics with a lot of opinions and information floating around. Here we’re going to explain away five of the most common fallacies of the fitness world that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Almost 40% of Britons Will be Obese by 2025
Disturbing new research papers published as part of the world’s biggest obesity study comprising twenty-million adults has predicted that almost 40% of British people will be obese by the year 2025,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Orthorexia Nervosa – When Healthy Eating Becomes An Eating Disorder
The importance of healthy eating is talked about a lot in our society, and rightly so. But, if practiced to the point of obsession, healthy eating can give rise to orthorexia nervosa, a medical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Generation of “New Men” at Less Risk of Dementia
Cambridge University academics carrying out research into dementia statistics have said that decades of health advice, warning men about the dangers of smoking, telling them to exercise regularly, eat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Amazing Weight Loss Success Story – Anand Pandya
We’d like to share with you the amazing weight loss success story of one of our students, Anand Pandya, who, with the help of one of our graduated personal trainers, transformed his life by losing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
#6 Simple Habits Anyone Can Use To Trim Fat
A lot of people in the UK are in the situation where they know they weigh more than they should and would like to trim some of their body fat. Diets and exercise regimes can sometimes be difficult to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Intermittent Fasting Might Not Be Good For Some Women
Intermittent fasting is an umbrella term for various eating patterns that cycle between periods of fasting and non-fasting. While it has been shown to be very beneficial for some practitioners, it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Pokemon Go Can Help Protect UK Kids From Childhood Obesity
Recent weeks have seen the launch of the hugely successful gaming app Pokemon Go from Nintendo, in which players walk around real world locations searching for fantasy creatures. It has attracted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Does a Personal Trainer Cure an Obese Client?
When we see so many people become obese who then never seem to return to a healthy weight, we can get the impression that obesity is a condition from which there can be no recovery. The truth is, any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Point of view: PTs on DVDs and Fitness fads galore
Since I’ve known myself I have been fascinated by how certain products make their way into people’s lives and homes by pretending to be something they’re not: Miracle workers. I grew up hearing my...
View Article
