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Online Fitness Courses
It’s no secret that we’re in a digital age, we have everything we need at our finger tips or indeed a tablet or mobile phone! When I was younger a tablet was something you took to make you feel better, not something you could use…
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The Warm Up – What Does RAMP Mean?
Warming up…do you stretch or don’t you? Is it safe to stretch or could it cause injury? It is very difficult to prove whether stretching prevents injury because there are so many contributing factors; it is impossible to replicate the same experiments in the same…
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Top Speed Running And Acceleration
One of my clients is now a British Champion at 100m (and high jump/long jump) after winning gold at the Transplant Games 2017 earlier this year in Glasgow. This blog is designed for personal trainers, fitness instructors and coaches to use with recreational, aspiring or…
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Linear vs Block Periodisation
Training a new client is a very exciting time. There are lots different variables that need to be addressed to make sure you are programming the correct training to help meet their goals. Long-term planning for a client, whether a weight loss client or a…
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Welcome to motive8 IQ!
Hello! Welcome to motive8 IQ, if you follow us on social media you may have previously known us as motive8 CPD. We’ve been a bit quiet recently, but have recently rebranded as motive8 IQ so we thought we would say ‘Hi’ and let you know…
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Strength Training For Cyclists
Whilst it is now commonly accepted that strength training improves cycling economy, the specifics of program design are often confused in personal training. The below program progresses through 3 phases over 12 weeks – phase 1 involves developing a base level of strength, phase 2…
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Results and Fatigue
Whilst it is common knowledge that volume and intensity need to be manipulated to avoid chronic and long term fatigue, strategies to assess how fatigued a client is are not common knowledge. Numerous strategies can be employed to constantly assess your client’s readiness to train:…
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Importance Of Education
I was recently scanning through the archives of the journal of strength and conditioning when I came across a paper by Berger et al., (2002). The paper is extremely interesting and, while we could argue that it is not in line with the times, a…
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PT Book Essentials
When I first started my career in Personal Training I wanted to read everything. I honestly never realised how little I knew or understood as I do now. I’m 100% certain that when I look back in a further 10 years I’ll question so many…
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Polarised Endurance Training
The distribution of an amateur/ recreational runner’s training intensity is often lacking. It is quite common in recreational runners to see high volumes of single intensity running – despite varying distances, they fail to alter running speed. Polarised endurance training refers to training by which…