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Back to front – Spinal health and posture in fitness

Back to Front

An Article in the Sunday Times Style Supplement 1st November 2015 caught our eye. The article “Back on Track” stated that: “the spine is the fitness industry’s latest obsession”!

Pete Fraser Fitness trainer Huw Owen explains the background and importance of core stabilization and how any personal trainer worth their weight should already be taking the spine into consideration when planning your exercise progression.

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Myth Busters – Do humans “burn fat”? – No!

How may times do we read and hear the term “FAT BURNING” or “BURNING CALORIES”?       Possibly every day!

Has anyone actually questioned this physiological impossibility?

Pete Fraser Fitness would like to be the first in the health and fitness industry to categorically state and reveal that humans are not combustion engines and do not somehow set light to fat in order to release energy. Steam may occasionally be seen coming out of our trainers’ ears but only when we hear the words “FAT BURNING”!

Want to learn exactly what does occur in the human body when we create energy from fat, carbohydrates and protein?

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