Really looking forward to pushing everyone super hard and melt away those pounds!
Mike Heatlie MSc CSCS
Edinburgh Personal Trainer
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Showing posts with label Edinburgh Personal Training gift vouchers. Show all posts
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Crazy Week!
40 Personal Training Sessions booked in this week and four consultations! Christmas is coming and the geese obviously don't want to get fat! :-)
Really looking forward to pushing everyone super hard and melt away those pounds!
Mike Heatlie MSc CSCS
Edinburgh Personal Trainer
Really looking forward to pushing everyone super hard and melt away those pounds!
Mike Heatlie MSc CSCS
Edinburgh Personal Trainer
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Training For The Special Day!
Shape Up for Christmas!
One of the reasons why January is such a busy time for gyms and Personal Training is that many people tend to reach Christmas reconditioned and with weight to lose! Throw in 3-4 weeks of poor dieting and limited exercise and people feel awful in January (not to mention the cold and dark mornings and nights!)
We are have many Personal Training clients at our Studio in Edinburgh looking to lose weight for Christmas. 12 sessions start from £267.48 inc VAT. Contact asap to get started: info@mikeheatliepersonaltraining.com
Mike Heatlie MSc CSCS
Edinburgh Personal Trainer
We are have many Personal Training clients at our Studio in Edinburgh looking to lose weight for Christmas. 12 sessions start from £267.48 inc VAT. Contact asap to get started: info@mikeheatliepersonaltraining.com
Mike Heatlie MSc CSCS
Edinburgh Personal Trainer
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Saturday, December 15, 2012
I love a good nap!
I nap maybe 1-2 times per day for 20-30mins, it's wonderful and really helps to re-charge the batteries. Here are five great benefits to taking a nap (if you can!).
1. A nap restores alertness.
The National Sleep Foundation recommends a short nap of 20–30 minutes “for improved alertness and performance without leaving you feeling groggy or interfering with nighttime sleep.”
2. A nap prevents burnout.
In our always-on culture, we go, go, go. However, we were not meant to race without rest. Doing so leads to stress, frustration, and burnout. Taking a nap is like a system reboot. It relieves stress and gives you a fresh start.
3. A nap heightens sensory perception.
According to Dr. Sandra C. Mednick, author of Take a Nap, Change Your Life, napping can restore the sensitivity of sight, hearing, and taste. Napping also improves your creativity by relaxing your mind and allowing new associations to form in it.
4. A nap reduces the risk of heart disease.
Did you know those who take a midday siesta at least three times a week are 37 percent less likely to die of heart disease? Working men are 64 percent less likely! It’s true, according to a 2007 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, who led the study said, “Taking a nap could turn out to be an important weapon in the fight against coronary mortality.”
5. A nap makes you more productive.
Numerous medical studies have shown workers becoming increasingly unproductive as the day wears on. But a 2002 Harvard University study demonstrated a 30-minute nap boosted the performance of workers, returning their productivity to beginning-of-the-day levels.
Edinburgh Personal Trainer - Mike Heatlie
1. A nap restores alertness.
The National Sleep Foundation recommends a short nap of 20–30 minutes “for improved alertness and performance without leaving you feeling groggy or interfering with nighttime sleep.”
2. A nap prevents burnout.
In our always-on culture, we go, go, go. However, we were not meant to race without rest. Doing so leads to stress, frustration, and burnout. Taking a nap is like a system reboot. It relieves stress and gives you a fresh start.
3. A nap heightens sensory perception.
According to Dr. Sandra C. Mednick, author of Take a Nap, Change Your Life, napping can restore the sensitivity of sight, hearing, and taste. Napping also improves your creativity by relaxing your mind and allowing new associations to form in it.
4. A nap reduces the risk of heart disease.
Did you know those who take a midday siesta at least three times a week are 37 percent less likely to die of heart disease? Working men are 64 percent less likely! It’s true, according to a 2007 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, who led the study said, “Taking a nap could turn out to be an important weapon in the fight against coronary mortality.”
5. A nap makes you more productive.
Numerous medical studies have shown workers becoming increasingly unproductive as the day wears on. But a 2002 Harvard University study demonstrated a 30-minute nap boosted the performance of workers, returning their productivity to beginning-of-the-day levels.
Edinburgh Personal Trainer - Mike Heatlie
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Exercise selection
Training my ass off in the gym I see a young guy come in. He sits down at the pec deck machine and does three sets of 12. He then moves onto the seated chest press and does the same, again with about a 2 min rest in between sets. This is pretty much pointless training, for a few reasons. Firstly if you want your body to change the overload principle must apply. The body must be stressed enough so that it has to adapt to stress placed upon it. The pec deck, the seated chest press, they're just not the same as the lying bench press or dumbbell press with a quality weight. We need best bang for our buck in our training and that is why exercise selection is so important.
The inner/outer thigh machine is a poor exercise selection when one could lunge or deep squat. Exercises selected at the beginning of a workout must also be the hardest. Squats, lunges, deadliest, bench press, dips etc. leave tricep pushdowns, curls etc. for the end, working small muscle groups in isolation is easy, big exercises....a bit more to ask. You wouldn't want to squat after 50 mins of training would you?
If weight loss is your goal you need to make better use of multi-joint/muscle exercises so expend as much energy as possible. Always remember that should be your goal for every weight-loss workout, get rid off as much energy as you can so plenty of reps, little rest periods, combined with quality cardio, get that bloody glycogen out of your body so fat can be utilised more efficiently.
Edinburgh Personal Trainer Mike Heatlie www.mikeheatlie.com www.mikeheatliepersonaltraining.com
The inner/outer thigh machine is a poor exercise selection when one could lunge or deep squat. Exercises selected at the beginning of a workout must also be the hardest. Squats, lunges, deadliest, bench press, dips etc. leave tricep pushdowns, curls etc. for the end, working small muscle groups in isolation is easy, big exercises....a bit more to ask. You wouldn't want to squat after 50 mins of training would you?
If weight loss is your goal you need to make better use of multi-joint/muscle exercises so expend as much energy as possible. Always remember that should be your goal for every weight-loss workout, get rid off as much energy as you can so plenty of reps, little rest periods, combined with quality cardio, get that bloody glycogen out of your body so fat can be utilised more efficiently.
Edinburgh Personal Trainer Mike Heatlie www.mikeheatlie.com www.mikeheatliepersonaltraining.com
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Christmas Gift Vouchers available!
At the Mike Heatlie Personal Training Studio we have Christmas gift vouchers available for Personal Training for your loved one! These vouchers are available from £30.00 - £395.00. For all enquiries email me or call us on 0131-661-8357. For the best Personal Training in Edinburgh, there is only one place to be! :-)
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