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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Sam’s Journey: The Final Week – I’ve Got Abs!

Never have I had to experience such a high level of commitment IN MY LIFE. I've never had a reason to say no to cake, McDonalds, fizzy drinks or anything for that matter. I never knew just how much I wasn't saying 'no' to...until now. It's the final week of my 12-week transformation with Ultimate…

2 September 20160Comments

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Sam’s Fitness Journey: Week 11 – A Confidence Boost

I've been asked a lot about why I decided to put myself through UP's 12 week transformation and I could say that it was for work, I could say it was so I could experience UP's services for myself but honestly...I now realise I needed it. Last year, after struggling with an Achilles injury for some time,…

31 August 20160Comments

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Sam’s Fitness Journey: Week 10 – Your Fitness Goal

Crikey, we've not got long left now have we?! When I started this 12 week transformation with UP I really had no idea what I was in for - in fact, when I really think about it, I was just thinking about my 'before and after' shot and how great it would be to achieve…

23 August 20160Comments

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Training Education

Nick Mitchell’s Glossary of Fitness Related Terms

Glossary - A quick guide to explain some of the key terms used in Nick Mitchell's 'Ultimate Body Transformation Plan'. Compound Lift This is a lift where movement occurs at two or more joints, such as a squat (movement at the hip and knee joints) to shoulder press (movement at the shoulder and elbow joints). Compound…

23 August 20160Comments

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Women's Health

Amna Al Haddad – First Female Emirati Weightlifter

“You can always decide how far you want to go with weight training, losing body fat, or becoming a competitive athlete in strength sports. Everything that happens will be based on a choice you decide to make.” Anna Al Haddad, Olympic Female Weightlifter UP for Women recently talked to Amna Al Haddad, an Olympic weightlifter competing internationally…

22 August 20160Comments

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Sam’s Journey – Week 9: Under Pressure

Week 9?! Well that came around quick. Now I have just 3 weeks to achieve my goal of being fit enough to be considered for the next Marvel heroine. On a serious note, having a goal is always important and one of the best things about this 12 week transformation is the timeframe you are…

18 August 20160Comments

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Build Muscle

5 Bodybuilding Lessons to Learn from Gymnasts

Gymnasts possess some of the most impressive and powerful physiques on the planet. Every four years as the Olympics roll by, anyone with an interest in body composition simply marvels at the excellence displayed on their TV screens. Huge, muscular arms. Wide, capped deltoids. Barn-door backs. Gymnasts possess them all and more. Back in the early…

18 August 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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3 Ways to Try Chocotrients: Chocolate Banana Cake

Bursting with Benefits Banana Bread You know that saying “The best thing since sliced bread” well, sliced Banana Bread is exactly that, and more. Made from simple, clean ingredients and free from refined sugars, each slice offers the texture of cake but with the added beneficial properties of bananas, good fats and the option of…

9 August 20160Comments

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5 Reasons You’re Not Losing Fat

Sam’s Journey: The Final Week – I’ve Got Abs!

Sam’s Fitness Journey: Week 11 – A Confidence Boost

Sam’s Fitness Journey: Week 10 – Your Fitness Goal

Nick Mitchell’s Glossary of Fitness Related Terms

Amna Al Haddad – First Female Emirati Weightlifter

Sam’s Journey – Week 9: Under Pressure

5 Bodybuilding Lessons to Learn from Gymnasts

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

3 Ways to Try Chocotrients: Chocolate Banana Cake

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