When it comes to renewing your sports insurance, we know you want the best value cover for your needs. Whether you’re a PT, sports coach, part of a team or play as an individual athlete, we’re confident you won’t find another policy that matches your needs for a lower price. Simply tell us the month…
Ensuring your dance students warm up properly is one of the most important parts of a dance class. It helps to prepare the body for exercise by raising the heart rate and allowing the blood to be pumped more efficiently around your body, as well as minimising the risk of injury; but which warm-up techniques…
2016 research by IBISworld indicates that the UK Yoga and Pilates industry is currently worth a staggering £790 million annually, employing nearly 16,000 people throughout the UK. That’s not to say that making a living, either part or full-time, as a yoga instructor is an easy task; quite the opposite in fact. It can be…
Personal training is one of the latest professions to have ‘gone online’. Many PTs from all over the world now offer their services to a client base no longer confined by location in a cost-effective way – via the internet. We spoke to three PTs offering an online personal training service and asked them why,…
Mindfulness is a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment. It is currently experiencing a huge wave of popularity and interest, and some large organisations are urging their employees to practise it. Personal trainers and fitness instructors are cottoning on to this trend too. Some studies have shown mindfulness can improve…
Using public space to train clients for outdoor fitness classes has become a minefield. Every council, parish and landowner has different rules, and what you think is a public space may actually be private land. If you’re a personal trainer or fitness instructor looking to hold classes in public parks and spaces, then the following…
Boxing might be one of the world’s oldest sports, having been an Olympic sport since 688 B.C, but it’s essentially the same today as it was back then. Apart from equipment used, that is. Instead of fighting with bare fists, boxers now wear gloves and very often a head guard. The training regimes and nutrition…
Once the New Year is a distant memory, it often becomes harder for PTs’ clients to stick to their regimes. The New Year’s good intentions start to fall away and you may see your client’s motivation start to slip – especially if they are not getting the results they want as quickly as they’d hoped.…
Few sportsmen and women are as fussy about their kit as cricketers. Whether it’s bats, pads, gloves or even the cricket bag itself, cricketers will pore over catalogues trying to find exactly the right item for that suits both their physical frame and style of play. The majority of cricket equipment is designed to protect…
