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Top Exercise Tips for 2022

Top Exercise Tips for 2022

Top Exercise Tips for 2022

What is the best way to train for health, for fitness and for a happier life?

Questions you may be asking yourself:

  • What is the best type of exercise regime to start?
  • What about diet?
  • Do I need to go to a gym?
  • Do I need to lift weights?
  • What is the best way to exercise my heart?

With 2022 now upon us we are all thinking about our health, perhaps now, more than ever. With so much information available to beginners and the initiated alike, we need to try and navigate through the useful info and all the simply useless stuff!

Luckily Pete Fraser Fitness trainers are qualified scientists, armed with best practice methods, techniques and decades of experience.

With so much fitness and health info available, it is difficult to know what is correct and what is not…

There are some basic ideas, some common sense thinking and some sound advice which should not be overlooked when thinking about your new health and fitness regime.

Let’s give you some gospel snippets to remember…

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Aerobic & Strength Training for Seniors

Aerobic & Strength Training for Seniors

Aerobic & Strength Training for Seniors

We all want to grow older in a healthy, fit and active way.  Sadly statistics globally suggest that many individuals do not.  In the most recent WHO (World Health Organisation) guidelines for physical activity report published in the British Medical Journal 2020, 1 in 4 adults and 3 in 4 adolescents do not complete even the basic aerobic exercise guidelines or 150 – 300 min of moderate level activity or 45 – 150 min or vigorous activity each week.

It seems we are becoming a sedentary and obese global population – time to do something about it! For most people of good health and full ability it is not rocket science – eat less exercise more is a good start point!

In our previous post we covered the issue of falls in seniors caused by poor stability, balance and strength.  We looked at how balance and proprioceptive training can help to reduce falls occurring.

Let us expand those training principles further now into general training for health and happy living for seniors in relation to the 2020 WHO report and recommendations….

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Fitness and Health for Seniors

Fitness and Health for Seniors

Fitness and Health for Seniors

The benefits of taking part in physical activity during older age are well documented but why do the majority of seniors not take part in activities they know will benefit them? In the US participating seniors are less than 27% of the population.

One of the greatest risks to seniors are falls, said to be reduced by up to 40% by participating in regular fitness training.  The second greatest unintentional injury deaths for over 60’s is falls with nearly 700,000 recorded deaths per year (WHO, 2021).

With the possibility of accidental injury and death so likely from falls, what can you do to mitigate the risks?  Luckily there are simple balance and stability exercises which together can reduce the risk of potentially falls.

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Pete Fraser Fitness fell running shoe review

inov-8 mudclaw 300 classic fell shoe

Pete Fraser Fitness reviews – if it gets our thumbs up – it’s good!

inov-8 mudclaw 300 classic

 

It’s sometimes difficult to get round to trying all the new products and clothing on the market. To help you, Pete Fraser Fitness have selected their choice favourites to save you the trouble.

Sit back and relax in the comfort we’ve put these garments and accessories through their paces, in the gym and on the mountains!


 

At Pete Fraser Fitness we love running! We stretch our legs on roads, trail and especially fell – you’ll find us running in Mayfair and the mountains! If you fancy a change from roads or trail you’re going to need to swap those road shoes for some full on fell shoes if you want to stay on your feet! Here’s our top pick of performance all terrain shoes.

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London Marathon Training

London Marathon Training

London Marathon Training

The London marathon is less than 8 weeks away and training should be going well at this point. Distances should be increasing and fitness should be improving, you should be feeling good about your running.

If you are new to distance running you may not be aware of some simple but important strategies and methods which could benefit your progression, reduce the possibility of injury and ultimately increase your race time.

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Motivation to exercise - what provides the motivation to train?

Motivation to exercise – what provides the motivation to train?

Motivation to exercise – what provides the motivation to train?

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These reasons are many:

  • Health improvement
  • Aesthetic development
  • Good old fashioned weight loss
  • Sport performance and competition
  • Mental health
  • Social integration

…are some of the main reasons people undertake exercise.

Here are our insights into why we and our clients chose to take up exercise….

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Why do you exercise, mind or body? The science behind the feeling good.

Why do you exercise?

Have you ever considered the scientific reasons behind why you exercise?

Read on….

These reasons are many:

  • Cardiorespiratory function improvement
  • Musculoskeletal strengthening
  • Neurological benefits
  • Endocrine and biochemical function improvement
  • Body weight normalization
  • etc, etc

These benefits are some of the reasons we feel better when we undertake exercise. Some people simply want to reduce their body fat or look more toned and this may make them feel better, more confident and therefore happier.

So lets go a little further….

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Training Secrets Revealed By Pete Fraser-Smith, Mayfair, London

Training Secrets Revealed By Pete Fraser-Smith, Mayfair, London

 Training Secrets Revealed By Pete Fraser-Smith, Mayfair, London

 

  • Ever considered why other people in your gym seem to progress far more quickly than you?
  • Hit a plateau in your training and need a boost?
  • Want to gain some insight into training more seriously to compete in a sport?

We can provide you with some high quality insight into training maintenance and progression to boost your health and fitness.

Pete Fraser Fitness, Mayfair has within it’s small highly skilled team National and International level athletes. They have competed in their specialist sports over many years and are ready to provide you with their insight to help you progress your training onto the next level.

Read on to learn the secrets of champions….

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Inov-8 mudclaw 275 review

Inov-8 mudclaw 275 review

Pete Fraser Fitness reviews – if it gets our thumbs up – it’s good!

Inov-8 mudclaw 275 review

 

It’s sometimes difficult to get round to trying all the new products and clothing on the market. To help you, Pete Fraser Fitness have selected their choice favourites to save you the trouble.

Sit back and relax in the comfort we’ve put these garments and accessories through their paces, in the gym and on the hill!


 

At Pete Fraser Fitness we love running! We stretch our legs on roads, trail and especially fell – you’ll find us running in Mayfair and the mountains! If you fancy a change from roads or trail you’re going to need to swap those road shoes for some full on fell shoes if you want to stay on your feet! Here’s our pick of performance all terrain shoes.

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Altitude Training

Altitude Training by Pete Fraser Fitness, Mayfair, London

Altitude Training by Pete Fraser Fitness, Mayfair, London

 

Millions of people travel to high altitude environments every year for pleasure, endeavour or in the case of athletes, physiological adaptation to improve their race times.

All very well for the professional athlete with time and probably funding, however, now the average serious enthusiast can get in on the action.

Accessibility to mountainous enviroments and training camps is widely available and the proliferation of hypoxia chambers in gyms is widespread.

But are hypoxia chambers creating similar environments to those in the mountains? Read on to discover….

  • What is altitude training?
  • What are the benefits?
  • How to do it?
  • Are altitude training and hypoxic chambers comparable?

 

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