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1. New Year’s Resolution Flailing? This may be why…

   

   Fitness and Training Tips and Advice

   26 January 2018

   As we near the start of February, talk of New Year’s resolutions is often waning, or perhaps even forgotten. At the beginning of January, many of us are full of gusto, eager to achieve our fitness goals. It’s a new year, which means a new you. You can do anything! Right? So why is it that come mid-January, so many

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2. NEW & EXCLUSIVE: Stunning Matrix Home Fitness Products

   

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   12 January 2018

   Here at Fitness Superstore, we’re ecstatic to have been appointed Matrix Fitness’s sole UK reseller of their brand-new home line of fitness kit. A simply outstanding range, we’re very excited and privileged that no other UK retailer is able to offer these first-rate products to their customers. WHY MATRIX? Having stocked their outstanding commercial lines for over 10 years, we’re well aware

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3. Are you overtraining?

   

   Fitness and Training Tips and Advice

   10 November 2017

   If you’re reading this blog, you’re likely a fan of fitness and probably take your workouts pretty seriously. With intense exercises like HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) and CrossFit becoming increasingly popular, and more and more fitness celebrities obtaining more and more influence on social media, many of us are training more intensely than ever. And that’s fine. Great, even.

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4. 5 Steps to Conquer the Winter Workout

   

   Fitness and Training Nutrition and Recipes Tips and Advice

   16 November 2016

   If working out during winter is something you dread year after year, now is the optimum time to switch up your training plan to accommodate the dropping temperatures and darker days. How? Here are our five top tips for conquering fitness this winter... Get yourself organised Waking up and assessing whether or not today is a training day or a rest day

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5. Why Does It Take Some People Longer to Lose Weight?

   

   Fitness and Training Nutrition and Recipes Tips and Advice

   2 November 2016

   You start a new regime and spend most of your time scrolling through progress pictures of what people have achieved in as little as four to eight weeks, and of course, you hope for the same results. However that is not necessarily possible. A friend or colleague might have lost ten pounds in a month, with somebody else losing fifteen

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6. Everything You Need to Know About Bulking & Cutting

   

   Carly Yue Fitness and Training Guest Blogs Nutrition and Recipes Tips and Advice

   27 October 2016

   Are you keen to hop on the bodybuilding bang wagon? PT and Media Fitness Expert, Carly Yue, explains the process with both the highs and lows included… When you begin bodybuilding there are two main options available to you, bulking and cutting. Contrary to common belief you cannot just eat whatever you like and call it “bulking” or start eating salads

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7. Let’s Talk About the Impact of Stress on Your Health

   

   Fitness and Training Nutrition and Recipes Tips and Advice

   14 October 2016

   Stress is something which, unfortunately, cannot be avoided in life. Whether it is your work, your family or another pressing issue that you have to deal with, it is inevitable that at some point, your stress levels will rise to a point where you feel it is beyond your control. What impact does this have on your health?               Stress can contribute

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8. Cardio: The Forgotten Benefits

   

   Fitness and Training Tips and Advice

   7 October 2016

   Often in the fitness world, cardio can be seen as ‘a waste of time’ for those who want to do nothing more than build strong, lean muscle. Of course, lifting weights is the way to go if you wish to improve you strength and shape, but cardio is often pushed aside with the mentality that if you do cardio, you'll

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9. Myth Buster Part 2: Spot Reducing & Diet

   

   Carly Yue Fitness and Training Guest Blogs Nutrition and Recipes

   30 September 2016

   Following on from our Myth Buster Part One post, PT Carly Yue continues on the topic of diet and exercise for women, this time focusing on spot reducing, calorie consumption and finding the right plan… YOU CAN'T SPOT REDUCE FAT Put simply, your body cannot reduce fat in specific locations. If for example you have what you'd describe as ‘bingo wings’

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10. Why Autumn/Winter is the Best Time to Train

    

    Fitness and Training Nutrition and Recipes Tips and Advice

    22 September 2016

    Darker evenings, dropping temperatures, and if like us you’re UK based, no doubt endless rain. It doesn’t bode well for that post-summer workout motivation, which is no doubt already wilting, does it? We get the struggle, honestly, but hear us out. The autumn/winter months are actually the best time to hit the gym with a bang and meal prep until

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