Exercise Made Easy

 

Our Services - We'll Get You Looking Good and Feeling Great

We provide the following services to help you get fit as quickly as possible and make exercise as easy to fit in with life as it can be. You can choose from:

- One on One Personal Training
- You and a Few Personal Training
- One on One Triathlon Training

One on One Personal Training - The ultimate in personally tailored programs to give you the motivation to get you toned and fit as quickly as possible. On top of your session you receive a personalised weekly program and access to our state of the art fitness tracking diary.

  • You and a Few Personal Training - Personally tailored for you and a few friends.  Each person in your group receives a personalised weekly program and advice as per one on one training but the cost is shared across your numbers. Ideal numbers are 2 - 8 people. This type of training is ideally suited for corporate groups.
  • One on one Triathlon Training - Imagine the results you could achieve having a world class triathlete running, cycling or swimming by your side. Included in your session fee is a weekly program and advice for all 3 sports (Swimming, Cycling, Running) from an experienced coach and world class triathlete, Dan Atkins.

 

So you can decide if you like us we offer you a no-obligation, free fitness assessment.  One of trainers will meet with you and we will assess your current fitness level and what you want to achieve. You can ask questions, see if you like us & our training philosophy and we can tailor a package to suit your goals.

For further information call us on 1300 132 116 or click here to e-mail us.

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Locations

We come to you or meet you at a number of convenient locations around inner-city Brisbane:

  • New Farm Park,
  • Kangaroo Point Cliffs, or,
  • The Botanical Gardens in the CBD.
  • Clayfield

If you have a gym in your home or apartment we can come to you and utilise the facilities you have available in addition to portable equipment we can bring.


Tips To Make Exercise Easier

1. Don't try to be a saint

Fitness should be part of your life not a way of life. It is not a religion, it is a simply a means to stay looking good and functioning well. If you forget this you can build exercise up to be harder than it really needs to be.

I run at elite level and sometimes people look at me when I eat 'unhealthy food' (I prefer to call it an 'Every now and then food') such as chocolate and say, "You can't eat that," as if I am committing a major crime. This is because they associate being highly fit with the need to totally abstain from all the 'bad foods' - this would be a very bland & boring way of eating & living.

Some people equate health with total fasting and abstinence as if they were a saint. They make getting fit harder than it has to be.  To prove how wrong they are, here's a quote from an actual saint:

"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation." ~ Saint Augustine.

Don't try to just obsess to achieve your goals. Try to have a structured plan that allows you say "no" when you have to and allows you say "yes" without guilt when you want to.

If you want achieve the perfect life remember that you don't have to achieve a perfect score in everything you do.  You just have to be relatively consistent in each area of your life, rather than going at full steam in one area and a dead stop in others.

The challenge in achieving this is getting the right plan, motivation and support. Get good advice and life and exercise will become much easier.

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2. Adding Gears To Your Fitness

When people start exercising their fitness is at such a level that just about anything they do will be very uncomfortable for a few weeks (Even if they have exercised in the past). They find the limit of the pain they can cope with and this is the pace that they travel along at.

It is like having a car with one gear and trying to drive at 100km an hour with first gear.  You're going to get a screaming sound from the engine and your body will also give you the same screaming sound.

The thing most people don't realise is that as they progress with their fitness they add gears to their fitness engine. Every time they exercise it is in their nature to push themselves to the level of pain they have decided they can cope with. Because of this they don't realise that they have made progress and that they have the capability to exercise at a new pace that is comfortable -an extra gear.

Tracking Your Progress

The more you progress through a properly designed program the more gears you add to your fitness. Though you started with only one gear (we can call it the 'hurt like hell' gear) you will quickly find you add gears and the capability to enjoy exercise more. This will generally take around 6-12 weeks to occur.

If you go longer than this and feel like you are not making progress it is probably the sign of two things - poor tracking of your exercise progress and poor structure & variety in your program.

If don't track your fitness you won't see your improvement. If you have no variety or structure and are pushing yourself to the limits of pain everyday then you probably are not having enough recovery to let your body adapt and improve, and you not giving yourself a chance to enjoy exercise.

The take home message is that if you are smart you will track your fitness in ways other than just how you feel while you are exercising and you will structure your program to include varying intensity. Use a training diary to track your training (like the online training diary that will soon be added to this site & will be available exclusively to our clients) and get good advice on how to structure your training for the best results.

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3. Different Types of Variety

 

There are two types of variety that are important in an exercise program. The first is phased year-round variety that allows the stimulus on the body to change to keep it adapting and avoiding stagnation. The second is week-to-week variety which allows you to stay interested in exercise.

The first variety is something that everyone needs and is based on what you want to achieve. It is done to minimise the chance of injury and to give your body a varying stimulus so it is challenged to adapt.

An analogy to this type of variety is building a home. If you want a nice home you don't build the floors, the roof, the doors, the walls all out of plain, un-textured, grey cement. Instead you build a strong base out cement, and then bring together materials like brick, timber, steel, tiles, etc. to assemble the home. Just like a training program all the parts are different but in the end they create the achievement you want.

The second type of variety varies in importance between people. For some people variety is important for making training easier to do. They hate doing the same thing two weeks in a row. They find motivation by not having to know what they are facing in the next session. For others having too much week to week variety can actually take away from their motivation. They like the challenge of trying to beat last week's performance. If they can't measure their progress then they lose direction with their program.

A good personal trainer will help you balance both of these types of variety in the your programs. They will have a plan that links your goals to the training you do and they will take the time to learn about what motivates you. In the end you will achieve better results and find it easier to stay motivated to achieve your goals.

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Exercise is Easier With Someone Else

It may be good sense (because common sense is not that common) but if you have to meet someone to exercise it will make it easier. Kiwi nutritionist Jenni Pearce stated in the March 2004 edition of Australian Leisure Management (http://www.ausleisure.com.au/March2004.html) that "exercising with a friend increases exercise adherence by a whooping 77%!"

If you really want to turn you fitness around but you have been having difficulty doing so maybe you need to get someone to exercise with. If you are lucky enough to have a reliable friend who shares your goal, that may be one way to start. If not there are a number of other ways you can do this.

The most effective way is to have your own trainer. They turn up when you want them to, your program is progressed at the right pace and level for you, and you get personalised support to achieve your goals.

The next best thing behind this is a 'You and a few friends' personal training session. It is still personalised but sharing reduces the cost.

If you can't do either of the options above, find a group exercise session that allows you to have a regular time and bunch of faces to meet which will help give you that commitment to turn up and get into a habit of training.

For information on how some of services can help you visit our About us page.

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