Category: Fitness Advice

Are You Fit For Snow Sports? Part 2

The Top Five Snow Sport Injuries: The top 5 Snow Sports Injuries are, Knee, head, wrist/hand, ankle & shoulder. One of the most serious knee injuries in snow sports is anterior cruciate ligament rupture which amounts to nearly 15% of all ski injuries. Prevention of Knee injuries: KNEE INJURIES: Knee injuries commonly occur during twisting manouvers, […]

01/11/2012 | 0 Comments More

Are You Fit For Snow Sports? Part 1

Winter is fast approaching and many will be hitting the slopes of Europe and North America/Canada – So I thought Id take a look at Fitness For the Snow… Try and think of a sport/activity that involves anyone from the couch potato and complete novice to get to the start of an event or activity, […]

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Tiredness – Performance – Energy

About 30% of all clients at mikebussPT Ltd say they lack energy either throughout the day or in the afternoon and evening.  Tiredness is a function of: Brain activity Muscular activity Pschyo-social factors The three most important nutrients to aid brain and muscle function are: Water Glucose Oxygen Water:  Drink at least 2ltrs daily Drink […]

29/10/2012 | 0 Comments More

Health Issues | Exercise

As a personal trainer with over 20yrs experience as a fitness professional and trained thousands of people in one2one and group exercise, both in civilian world and the armed forces, Ive seen a lot to know why sometimes people just drop out of getting fit… Dont let exercise become another stress factor in your life.  […]

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Pregnancy & Exercise (Now there’s two of you)

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04/06/2012 | 0 Comments More

BMI for Children and Teens | Also referred to as BMI-for-age

BMI is Used Differently with Children Than it is With Adults In children and teens, body mass index is used to assess underweight, overweight, and risk for overweight. Children’s body fatness changes over the years as they grow. Also, girls and boys differ in their body fatness as they mature. This is why BMI for […]

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BMI for Adults | What is BMI?

Body Mass Index or BMI is a tool for indicating weight status in adults.1 It is a measure of weight for height. For adults over 20 years old, BMI falls into one of these categories: BMI Weight Status Below 18.5 Underweight 18.5 – 24.9 Normal 25.0 – 29.9 Overweight 30.0 and Above Obese Note: BMI […]

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Kinesiology | What Is It?

Kinesiology is a natural health therapy…  Truely Holistic, Hands On – Drug Free. Whether your health problems are, muscular-skeletal aches and pains, energy swings or just tired all the time, anxiety, mood swings, depression, fears & phobias, food sentivities or nutritional deficiencies… Kinesiology CAN Help… WHAT IS KINESIOLOGY? Kinesiology is a language which enables us […]

03/06/2012 | 0 Comments More

DROP SET CIRCUIT | By Mike Buss Personal Trainer

In bodybuilding and weight training, using drop sets is a technique for continuing an exercise with a lower weight once muscle failure has been achieved at a higher weight. It is most often performed on weight machines because reducing the weight quickly is thought by some to be extremely important, but it can also be […]

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BODY WEIGHT CIRCUIT | By Mike Buss Personal Trainer

Forget the need for a gym – All you need for this circuit is you: Sets: 3 | Time Each Set: 60secs | Rest: 20secs between sets Press Ups Squats Chin Ups Lunges Bench Dips Squat Jumps Inclined Press Ups Burpee With a Jump By Mike Buss Personal Trainer  

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