The use of a Personal Trainer is becoming more and more popular. It is important that your client understands the advantages of working with a personal trainer, some of these include: For a client to ...

Somatotypes are a way of classifying human body shapes based on three main categories: ectomorph, mesomorph, and endomorph. The term somatotype was coined by the American psychologist William Sheldon ...

Flexibility refers to the range of movement possible at a joint or joints and will be influenced by the type of joint (ball and socket, hinge etc). The agonist or prime mover creates movement at a ...

As the GB team return from Rio with their hoard of medals, there’s no doubt that elite female athletes inspire young girls to take up sport – from track cyclist Laura Trott, who won two Olympic gold ...

Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions are a group of conditions that affect the bones, joints, muscles and spine, and are a common cause of severe long term pain and physical disability. Special ...

The prevailing theories today regarding motivation and ability to change habits can be found in Prochaska and DiClemente’s “Transtheoretical Model”, a behaviour model that classifies how people make ...

Carbohydrate is the main fuel for the body. Unlike fats and proteins, carbohydrate has no other functions in the body than to supply it with energy apart from a small amount of dietary carbohydrate ...

Duty of Care means that you must take reasonable care to avoid actions, which are likely to cause injury, or ensure that you have done everything in your power to prevent injury to any person directly ...

Image is one of our most important assets. The way we look, speak, handle problems and the professionalism we exhibit during our day-to-day activities as a fitness instructor, are crucial to our image ...

Abuse refers to harmful or injurious treatment of another human being that may include physical, sexual, verbal, psychological/emotional, intellectual, or spiritual ...

Screening, personal-profiling, and goal-setting help provide an accurate picture of an individual and allow a personalised training programme to be designed. However, in order to begin and maintain ...

The first stage of atherosclerosis is the fatty streak stage, in which cholesterol and other substances first accumulate in the inner lining of the artery. This stage is often seen in young people and ...