The Lowdown on Cardio for Fat Loss

How Effective is Cardio for Weight Loss? At one point or another, we have all implemented some kind of cardio activity when looking to lose fat. Although rapidly increasing cardio does work to some degree, you need to know when and how to use it to get the best results from it. The goal with…

30 September 20160Comments

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Diet

Sleep and Weight Loss with Nick Mitchell

The subject of sleep and weight loss is an absolutely crucial factor in any so-called health regime. Sleep is one of the key non-negotiables to optimal health, performance, and physical potential. Getting the right amount of sleep is an imperative for a healthy hormonal system and whilst many of us are tempted to skip sleep…

30 September 20160Comments

ByNick Mitchell

Diet

Nick Mitchell’s Top Refeed Rules

‘Cheat Meals’ or ‘Refeeds’ is a subject that many who embark on a strict diet plan can quite often get confused. What on earth is a refeed? When is a good time to refeed? Do you deserve one? The issue with not knowing the answers (and the right answers) to these questions is that using them…

22 September 20160Comments

ByNick Mitchell

Diet

Nick Mitchell explains why eating for fatloss isn’t as hard as it sounds.

Nick Mitchell's 4 easy tips on eating for fat loss. I personally get very frustrated with the plethora of eating for fat loss questions that our personal training page is inundated with on an almost daily basis. The confusion that has been sown by various disparate, and often unethical, self-interest groups is quite disgusting because for…

19 September 20160Comments

ByNick Mitchell

Diet

5 Reasons You’re Not Losing Fat

Fat loss is the most common fitness goal. It seems easy on paper, but it’s a lot tougher to achieve in reality. Whilst the basics of fat loss revolve around hitting your protein goal, eating your veggies and ensuring a calorie deficit, it’s often reasons beyond that which derail your best efforts. Here are the top five: 1.…

2 September 20160Comments

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Recipes

UP Food: 3 Ways to use UP’s Chocolate Superfood

A LITTLE CHOCOLATE WON'T HURT. (No-Seriously) Chocotrients by Ultimate Performance is an easy-to-mix, great tasting, nutrient-rich superfood formula with whole food concentrates designed to provide synergistic phytonutrient nutrition. It provides a super blend of 100% natural fruit and vegetable extracts, vitamins, enzymes and symbiotic intestinal flora - high in antioxidants, lignin's and phytonutrients. The guilt-free goodness is…

9 August 20160Comments

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Diet

Why Strength Should Be The Foundation of your Programme

When creating your own programme, whether you’re training for body composition, performance or muscle mass as your main goal, strength training should be the foundation of your programme. Before we go any further, take note that strength is not an action (lifting maximal weights); strength is used to realise these actions and any muscular action requiring…

27 July 20160Comments

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Food & Nutrition

5 Easy Food Prep Tips For The Summer

The summer brings out a few things in us Brits; an urgent desire to wear as little clothing as possible, numerous weather discussions and a sudden panic of how we look with less clothes on. But let's be perfectly honest and admit that we can also get lazy when the sun hits us and food prep…

19 July 20160Comments

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Diet

How to complete Ramadan physically healthier than when you started

Ramadan doesn't need to wipe out your fitness, muscle and nutrition gains, by using the Ultimate Performance guide below, we'll show you how to be healthier than when you started. In today’s increasingly multi-cultural, or cross-cultural (a phrase that suggests a type of integration that we feel we should be aiming for) society, we always need to…

8 June 20160Comments

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Diet

5 Ways Being a Mentor Can Help Your PT Career

The personal training industry is a farce. Yes, that's okay for UP to admit because it's one of the stand-out motivations for Nick Mitchell setting up the organisation in the first place; there's too much BS out there. It's now way too easy for anyone who has had experience in 'losing a bit of weight'…

24 May 20160Comments

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Food & Nutrition

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