Some of our beginner clients experience the benefits of power walking very quickly. For those unused to exercise and preferring to walk to lose weight rather than launch into running, power walking is a low-impact exercise that has a surprising effect on the heart rate both immediately and over the long term as you measure […]
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Client of the Month
It really does take some commitment to exercise when you have Crohn’s Disease which is why we’re happy to make AW our Client of the Month
Client of the Month, November 2014
Training with Muddy Plimsolls for just 4 weeks, Client of the Month MG has already dropped 4kgs (9 pounds) in time for her sister’s wedding. And there’s more to come.
Outdoor exercise ideas come in the form of a new Ebook
Muddy Plimsolls’ fitness ebook covers 10 outdoor exercise ideas to radically improve your workout. A unique approach to combining bodyweight exercise and training outdoors.
Calisthenics for your park run
Here’s a list of 3 exercises we teach in our Calisthenics for Runners workshop. These exercises are part of a group of 25 simple exercises for clients who want to add a full body workout to their park tun and develop upper and core body strength, tone muscle and improve posture.
Learning to cartwheel is a great fitness goal
A client of mine had always wanted to do a cartwheel. She’d never been able to do one, as a little girl. She’d taken junior ballet/gymnastics classes, where she’d been teased by the other girls for being too chubby and uncoordinated to perform the move. Years later, she decided to learn.
Moving House Workout
Moving house can be a full body workout. Jason Doggett – co-Founder of outdoor personal training agency Muddy Plimsolls – shows you how to organise your efforts to avoid injury.
Learning How to Exercise
To learn how to exercise, I suggest finding some middle ground, training harder than you are used to, but not as hard as you fear you have to.
A fitness plan to suit your personality
Your ‘Fitness Personality’ is key to weight loss success The strongest predictor of weight loss success is this: the approach you choose must be allied to your personality. Training with our System follows a programme that’s part-art and part-science, where we develop your training programme around your personality. Our clients are all very different people, […]
Fitness over 50
A story of how our 52-year old female client fared over a battery of military-style tests and a great example of how fitness over 50 is a real goal.