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Fat loss and actvity
Fat, and how to lose (or maintain lower levels) it is, without doubt, the number 1 subject I've most been quizzed on over the 20 or so years I've been working in health and fitness. It's a subject that despite having more and more information about, is at an all-time...
40RTY – A ‘how to’ guide
The training we do here at 40RTY can seem tough. People often worry that they won't be good enough or it will be too advanced for them. That's a mistake and I hope in the brief article below to help you plan your training so it's at the right intensity and has you...
Health and Fitness Coaching
What is health and fitness coaching? I feel it's about helping people create balanced, long term changes that result in them reaching AND maintaining their chosen goals. It looks at multiple components such as sleep, activity, nutrition, exercise and mental health,...
Mental Health Checklist
We dish out plenty of advice about improving your physical health but how often do you stop and put things into place to make sure your mental health is on the right track? Doing a sort of check list might seem a little much but its the easiest way we have found to...
The Fundamentals
I read a post on a friends Instagram the other day that resonated with me. It was about how doing the basics better is really all it takes. This industry twists and constantly tries to 'improve' on the basics - mainly in order to sell something or keep their social...
Hyrox training advice
We've been thinking about how people can best prepare for a Hyrox event and it's been tricky. The biggest and first thing is that training for an individual event is going to be very different to the training of a pairs event. So before we go any further you need to...
Why Fitness Testing?
We believe the group training sessions we do here at 40RTY are great. They will push peoples all-round fitness up in a wide variety of ways but this type of training has a problem which it often gets unfairly criticised for. That problem is how do you actually...
Fastest Lap – Let’s go!
With the girls team (The 40RTY Firehawks) at the weekend setting the first team time to beat on the #40RTYFastestlap challenge we thought we'd try and get some of you revved up to give it a go yourselves. But first, what it is? Glad you asked. We've put together a...
Supplements
We get a lot of questions regarding which supplements we recommend / take ourselves and to be dead honest its a bit of a rabbit hole - once you go in you end up pretty deep lol. But - saying that we do have a few that we'd be very happy to recommend and regularly use...
Resilience Circuits – why?
I've been working in this fitness 'industry' for coming up 20 years now and i've seen fitness fads come and go (many tbh) but nothing and i do mean nothing compares to circuit training when it comes to increasing general (by that i mean non specific) work capacity and...
Mental health training
How much thought or time do you give to your mental health? Mental health has become a big topic over the last few years. It's something I've talked about with clients and members often as I feel it is overlooked and considered somehow less important than its physical...
Transformation?
Recently we have had a lot of enquiries about our 40RTY Fitness Training from people that have tried or are currently taking part in ‘transformation‘ type boot camps / group personal training. These enquiries have spurred us into writing this blog post to both...
Wax on, Wax off
The Karate Kid was an iconic film for me growing up - still love it! One of the most memorable scenes if you've not see it is where Daniel (the kid) is being unknowingly being taught about Karate defence by his new teacher - the very strange Mr Miyagi. All day Mr...
Cross training
I’d like to go into what I see as cross training and how I think the term has become slightly confusing over the years I’ve been working in this industry. When I talk about ‘cross training’ I’m not talking about: a) A cardio machine found in lots of commercial gyms b)...
Why i think zoom coaching is so valuable
When it comes to success with weight loss (fat loss) or fitness goals, having someone with you to help guide you is a massive bonus. Personal training is a great way to get expert advice and guidance but i've found online / face to face coaching that is NON physical...
Changes to your training
My hill session location 🙂 I've been speaking with a few of our members this week about how changing up their training could actually be a blessing. It's easy with all that is going on to focus on the negatives - doom and gloom spreads fast so it's no wonder people...
Why you are not hitting your goals…
Over the past 15 years or so i have been working in the fitness industry I've noticed particular trends as to why people often fail to reach their goals. Seeing these common mistakes over and over always makes me a little sad so i thought i'd share what i can in the...
Functional what??
So, today's post is about how i've been testing a new (for me) type of fitness programme that i can only really describe as 'Functional Hypertrophy' - not a phrase that rolls off the tongue too easily but the best i could pigeon hole it into - essentially a programme...
Q+A 7 – Limited equipment training
We get comments quite frequently from people that either don't train with us (they are with a different gym etc) or they simply do not want to train at a gym preferring to train at home. Often in these circumstances it can be difficult to either get their hands on or...
Q+A – 3 – making weights work for cardio?
In episode 2 (get me - talking about episodes already!!) it was asked - 'what is the best exercise to help fat loss'. I mentioned amongst other things that i am a strong advocate of short, powerful sessions using resistance training that result in also jacking up...
Give me 20 mins!
One of the most common excuses given for people not sticking to fitness goals is their lack of time. There are number of counter arguments a person could make to that i suppose - "make fitness your priority / if you wanted it enough you'd make time / you make time...
Your plate and how it could help weight loss
Those that know us will remember that a long time ago we used to run residential weight management holidays deep in the Scottish Highlands (way before Boot camps become the 'Z' list celebrity gimmick!) at the fantastic Corrour estate. Over the years we ran them we...
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