Your best high street choices for lunch when out and about… At The Fitting Rooms we always encourage taking home-prepared lunches into work, but sometimes life just gets in the way so it’s good to know the best options available to buy on the high street. One of the biggest problems with ready prepared meals
What You Didn't Know About Hamstring Training... Hamstring training is often under-prioritised in people's programming with more of a focus placed on the quads and glutes; which is crazy considering how important hamstrings are for both athletic performance, aesthetics and everyday, pain-free movement! What are the hamstring muscles? The hamstrings are the group of
Try the Poliquin Step-Ups Exercise for knee pain Poliquin Step-Up muscles worked: Vastus Medialis Oblique... The Poliquin Step-Up is our top exercise to include in your training to strengthen your VMO muscle. If you've ever suffered from knee pain in the past, chances are you could do with strengthening your VMO; the tear-drop shaped
Is overtraining hampering your results and negatively affecting your health and happiness? All too often we see people start to take their training regime to an extreme level: prioritising their gym time over their social lives and beating themselves up for missing workouts. What they don't realise is that all that extra time in the
Glute training... How - And Why - To Build The Ultimate Booty! Whether for aesthetics or sporting performance, glute training should be at the forefront of everyone’s training program. Obviously we practise what we preach and here at The Fitting Rooms you’ll see an array of strong glutes, on clients and trainers alike! It
Below are some simple diet, training and lifestyle habits to adopt to ensure you feel your best and step onto that beach with confidence. 1. Give yourself a realistic time frame! And in general, 4 weeks is not enough! 8-12 weeks would be a realistic time frame if you already work out and have a
Increase Your Strength With Grip Training Following on from our previous post about deadlift grip (here), we wanted to talk in more detail about grip training. Grip training is often overlooked as an unnecessary waste of time, but this is definitely not the case! Without a strong grip many of your lifts will stagnate,
For many weight-trainers, understanding which rep range to work with is a source of confusion. Hopefully our chart above helps to clear this up. In addition, here are a few other things to consider: - Time under tension (TUT) is key, meaning the tempo of each rep is also critical! Tempo is noted in the
Looking For A Fat-Loss Workout? Give This A Try... The video below shows our client Joanne doing a session from one of our fat loss programs.. Joanne had just finished a 12 week strength program, which saw her squat and deadlift well over her own body weight and achieve her first pull-up, so we
Sleep is a powerful weapon when it comes to body composition: it can help us grow muscle; burn fat and increase strength and performance; alongside all the general health and wellbeing benefits it's known for. So here are our top five tips for a better nights sleep: 1. Set yourself a bedtime and stick
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