RSS FeedGood morning, today's workout is a bit of a challenge. Can you complete it?
Five sets of 50,40,30,20,10 reps
Squats
Modified Chins
Press ups
Crunches
Record time to monitor progress.
If you need any help with technique please send me an email
Hello, thank you for following. Today's workout is targeting muscle development which is also the most effect method for fat burning.
| reps | sets | load | |
| Barbell back lunges | 12 | 3 | |
| Bench Press | 12 | 3 | |
| Single arm row | 12 | 3 | |
| Deadlift | 12 | 3 | |
| Chins | 12 | 3 | |
| Single arm shoulder press | 12 | 3 |
Repeat 3 sets of the first block, then 3 set of the second block, record loads used. For each exercise use a tempo of 3,0,.1. That means 1 second against the resistance and 3 seconds with the resistance. If you need any help please send me an email
Good morning, I'm sure there will be no shortage of hang overs this morning, it's time to forget the world cup now and focus on your health and fitness... (weak link?) Anyway, try today's workout and blow away those world cup cobwebs.
2 mins spinning bike
1 min squats
2 mins spinning bike
1 min bench press
2 min spinning bike
1 min Mod chins
2 min spinning bike
1 min plank
Repeat three times, run a continuous clock.
If you have any questions please send me an email. If you are serious about your health and fitness goals please call us and book a consultation 0117 377 9295
OK so the gym is so quite today that I have been outside most of the morning washing my car... I also expect that very few of you will be thinking about exercise today, but for those of you who are here's a workout and a tip. Tip- if you're training outside do it now and drinks lots of water, avoid the midday and mid afternoon sun.
Workout:
Deadlift 4
weighted chins 4
Weighted dips 4
Repeat 8 times.
If you need any help with technique send me an email.
Hello and welcome to another workout of the day. Today's workout is a fast pace fat burning workout against the clock. Let me know how you get on...
1000m Run
50 Squats
50 Dead row (with a straight back, row a kettlebell from the floor)
50 Step ups
50 Press ups
50 KB swings
50 Rocking crunches
1000m ROw
Record time to monitor progress
Good morning. I hope everyone has a bit more of a spring in their step today this week did have the potential to be the worst in recorded history with England almost prematurely exiting the world cup, Murray playing at Wimbledon and the dreaded budget all in one week. Fortunately the worst did not happen, so with your newly calmed nerves why try today's workout?
Barbell shoulder press 7
Chins 15
Barbell push press 7
Chins 15
Barbell push jerk 7
Chins 15
1000m Row
Record loads, increase for each new exercise. Record rower time.
If you require any help with technique please send an email or ask a Personal Trainer.
Good morning, with England's world cup future in the balance many of you will be taking a half day today and exercise will be the last thing on your mind. For those of you not watching, give today's workout a try:
800m Run
40 Jumping lunges
10 Power cleans
x 3
Good luck if you need and help with technique please send me an email or drop in. Record time and clean load to monitor progress.
Ed Ley 'Personal Trainer Bristol' Absolute Health
P.s Good luck to England today!!!!
Good morning. How fast can you complete this killer workout. With just two exercises this workout can be done almost anywhere.
20 turkish get ups
20 burpees
x 5
Record time and load to monitor progress
If you have any questions please send me an email.
Good morning, I hope you had a great weekend. The Bristol Ibis Novotel FitBiz Challenge is only 10 days away now have you put your team in yet? To help you prepare for the up coming challenge try today's workout.
30m Walking lunges
10 Chins
10 Dips
400m Run
x 5
Record time to monitor progress.
Good morning. I won't mention the football. Just try this full body barbell complex. If you don't know the exercises ask a personal trainer for some assistance or come down to James Ross Healthcare.
Deadlift 8
Romanian deadlift 8
bent over row 8
Power clean 8
Front squat 8
Push press 8
Back squat 8
Good morning 8
4 set. Record load to monitor progress. Take as much rest between sets as you need.
Ed Ley 'Bristol Personal Trainer' Absolute Health
Good Morning, another repeat programme today. If you were following back in February then dig out your old scores and test yourself, you'll be amazing at the difference. Bristol is absolutely packed this morning, everyone has got out of bed that bit earlier in the hope of making it back in time for the football tonight.
Kettlebell Programme
SA Pendulum swing 10
SA Clean to Press 10
SA high Pull 10
SA Snatch 10
Left then right. Repeat for 4 sets, record time to monitor progress
If you require help with technique please send me an email.
Good morning, every now and then I like to throw in a programme that we have done before, it's a great way to monitor progress and test if your fitness is improving. Even if you are doing this for the first time it is a great workout to do when you have little equipment and cannot thing what to do. The gym record for this workout is 13:45 seconds, how close can you get to this score?
100 Squats
100 Modified chins
100 Press ups
100 Crunches
Record time. Complete each exercise before moving on to the next.
Good morning, thank you for following. Give today's workout a try. This is a power workout, the fastest time recorded so far is 21:59 with a 55kg Power clean. Let me know how you get on. The Power clean is a difficult exercise if you haven't been trained to do this exercise please swap for a single arm row, although this exercise is not a substitute and it will change the dynamic of the workout safety needs to be the first concern with any workout.
Jumping lunges (Left and right count as one rep)
Power clean
Press up to clap (to hop or just straight push up dependant on what you can do)
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Record time and clean load to monitor progress.
Ed Ley 'Personal Trainer Bristol' Absolute Health
Good morning, what an amazing morning I can't believe how nice it is... Try today's workout, much slower paced, in fact today's programme is all about slow controlled movement so follow the tempo. Tempo controls time under tension.
We are aiming to train for muscular development today so with 8 reps the tempo must be 3 seconds down, 1 second hold and 1 second back up.
This results in a time under tension (TUT) of 40 seconds if done correctly.
| TUT | Reps | Sets | |
| Front squat | 311 | 8 | 4 |
| Single arm row | 311 | 8 | 4 |
| Single arm press | 311 | 8 | 4 |
| Step ups | 311 | 8 | 4 |
| Lat pulldown | 311 | 8 | 4 |
| Shoulder Press | 311 | 8 | 4 |
If you require any help with technique or if you have any questions please send me an email.
Good morning, I hope you had a fantastic weekend.
Try today's workout:
500m Row
Press up burpee 25
Turkish get up 25
x 4
Record time and load.
If you require any help with technique or you have any questions please do get in touch.
Good morning, and welcome to all you guilt trainers squeezing in your good deed before the football mayhem begins. Let's try a fast paced muscle tearing workout so all that bbq meat doesn't go to waste.
8 spin bike (ordinary on medium resistance)
20 narrow under hand chins
20 dumbbell bench press
repeat x 5
Record time and load and (if your bike allows) distance.
If you require any assistance please send me an email or ask a Personal Trainer.
Good morning, thank god for the morning cycle to work to wake me up. I visited another Only Connect last night and got chatting to so many people I lost all track of time. I Met some really interesting people and hopefully some potential useful contacts. My brain is a bit fried this morning so today's workout with not be complicated.
Run or Row 5km
What ever your style of training you if you're not a runner you can really shake things up with a run, you'll be surprised how much you ache. For those runners amongst you, try switching to a row for the day, you'll work muscles you forgot you had.
Good morning, I hope you enjoyed yesterday's workout. Today we move away from the fast bursts of exercise, today's workout is targeting muscular endurance and cardiovascular endurance in one. Let me know how you get on. The fastest time so far: 39.16
1000m Run
100 Squats
1000m Row
100 Press ups
1000m Run
100 Modified Chins
1000m Row
100 Crunches
Record time to monitor progress.
Ed Ley 'Bristol Personal Trainer' Absolute Health
Good morning. I was talking to a friend yesterday, he has been trying to lose weight for some time now. The exercise is not a problem he says. He just finds food preparation so boring he can never think of what to make and he's know good at it. This is such a common problem with people trying to achieve weight loss goals.
If you live for another 40 years and you eat 3 meals a day you will eat 43,800 meals. Surely it's worth turning some time over to learning and getting better at it. it's not even something that is particularly difficult. There are simple guidelines to follow for cooking meat, fish and vegetables. So if you're serious about weight loss, then you had better get serious about learning to cook. Rant over! Try my workout.
Med ball Overhead walking lunges 45m
Long Jumps 20
400m Run
x 4
Record time.
Ed Ley 'Personal Trainer Bristol' Absolute Health
Good morning, I hope you enjoyed yesterday's workout. Why not give today's a try? It's important to mix your workout as much as possible to avoid plateaus and keep pushing towards your goals.
Deadlift 40
Press up, burpee to jumping chin 40
skipping 100
x 2
Record time and deadlift load to monitor progress
Press up to burpee to jumping chin is as simple as it sounds. Complete a press up then jump your feet forward then jump in the air, grab a chin up bar and pull up return to the ground and repeat.
Ed Ley 'Bristol Personal Trainer' Absolute health
Good morning, sorry if you missed a workout on Saturday, I was in Newcastle on a stag do. I return this morning not quite as refreshed as I would like and in need of a bit more sleep. Perhaps I will try today's workout to pick me up...
20 Forward lunges
20 Squats
20 Jumping lunges
20 Jumping Squats
20 Press ups
20 Mod Chins
10 Press up with a clap
20 Left to right and right to left mod chins
x 2
This is a fast pace workout of and should take between 10-15 minutes. If you have any question please email.
Ed Ley 'Personal Trainer Bristol' www.absolute-health.co.uk
Good morning, I am off to Newcastle in an hour but for those of you training today give this programme a try.
20 Deadlifts
20 Bench Press
400m Run
Continuous for 20 mins. Record number of sets and loads.
Maintain a straight back throughout your deadlifts, as you become more tired it will require more focus. If you require any assistance please send me an email or ask a Personal Trainer.
Ed Ley 'Personal Training Bristol' www.absolute-health.co.uk
Good morning, I hope you enjoyed yesterday's workout and tip. As we approach the summer time and day's start becoming warmer it can be so easy to forget to eat regularly. When we don't eat regularly our body's store fat and if we haven't eaten for some time before exercise we can become very dizzy and spaced out. I notice this with many of the lunch time trainers who have skipped breakfast and are yet to eat lunch.
To get the best results from your exercise and to prevent your body from storing fat eat every 4 hours and always eat something 2 hours before exercise. Try today's workout:
Squat to press (barbell)
Chins
Reverse crunches
20,15,10,6
Repeat each exercise in order following the rep numbers below. Record Barbell load and time your workout.
If you require any assistance please contact me at ed@absolute-health.co.uk if you cannot do chins try jumping chins.
Ed Ley 'Personal Trainer Bristol' www.absolute-health.co.uk
good morning, I hope you enjoyed yesterday's workout... Something I see so often in the gym is, giving up. Let's say the task is 20 press up, so many people, especially those training alone will reach 17 then stop to re-coop before doing the last 3. When I ask why they stopped they say "I just felt like I couldn't do any more". This is your mind playing tricks on you, your sub-concious mind works to keep you inside your comfort zone.
Focus and push through that comfort zone, do the extra three reps, it will make a massive difference to the results you get from your training. Competition is a great way of doing this, we always push ourselves that bit more when working with others. Find a training partner or just try and beat your own previous scores.
Try today's workout, and when you feel like you cannot possibly do one more ask yourself, what will happen to me if I do?
20 Kettlebell swings
20 Press ups
100 skips
x 5
The current record for this workout is 9:37. Give it a try and let me know how you get on. If you require any help with this or any other training please get in touch.
Ed Ley 'Bristol Personal Trainer' www.absolute-health.co.uk
Good morning, I hope you had a fantastic bank holiday. I am away on Friday and Saturday in Newcastle so you will have to make the most of these next three workouts.
KB= Kettlebell
a1 KB Squats 12
a2 KB Bent Over row 12
a3 KB Press ups 12
a4 KB Back lunge to shoulder press 16
a5 KB swings 12
a6 Turkish Get up 10
Repeat x 3
Record loads and time to monitor progress. If you require any help with technique or you have any questions please contact me at ed@absolute-health.co.uk.
Ed Ley 'Personal Trainer Bristol' www.absolute-health.co.uk