Charles Poliquin Private Seminar at UP Mayfair: One of the
advantages of being a UP personal trainer is access to the best
education possible for your career and your clients. On Saturday
evening of February 4th, Charles Poliquin will be delivering a
private seminar and Q&A to the UP team – needless to say
everyone [...]
Date Published: Feb 02, 2012 - 9:57 am
Ultimate Performance is known as THE home for the most serious
personal trainers in the United Kingdom. We require that our
trainers, in their own unique and individual ways, are wholly
passionate about all things to do with health, fitness, and
optimising body composition. We require that they are always
in top shape themselves, not [...]
Date Published: Jan 26, 2012 - 5:53 am
In early January of this year welcomed our newest Personal Trainer
into the UP family, Aimee Stevens. Aimee has a really fantastic
pedigree as a Personal Trainer, and you can read her full profile
here. Please note however, that her secret weapon is that she is
from Ilkley, which near as anything counts as Nick [...]
Date Published: Jan 23, 2012 - 11:14 am
Not many people can claim to be a world champion in martial arts
(Taekwon-do), have featured in movies with Jackie Chan and Jet Li,
and have a physique that has graced magazines and advertisements
across Europe. Silvio Simac is such a man, and as a personal
trainer he brings all his 20 years of exercise, [...]
Date Published: Jan 23, 2012 - 2:33 am
If you are seeking a hungry, highly motivated, impeccably well
trained and career minded Personal Trainer then Aimee Stevens fits
that description to a tee. She has worked all over the world,
coached high profile clients, and has an excellent academic
pedigree to go with her growing “in the trenches” experience. Aimee
has both a [...]
Date Published: Jan 15, 2012 - 10:08 am
Perhaps only for the brainiacs out there, we are fortunate enough
to be publishing the first part of an outstanding article on
optimizing muscular hypertrophy by Research Scientist Chad
Robertson. We will be the first to admit that it isn’t an easy,
“light” read as it is choc full of technical data and terminology
needed [...]
Date Published: Jan 15, 2012 - 9:56 am
Optimizing Muscular Hypertrophy – A Scientific Perspective I am
pretty confident that the majority of strength and conditioning
coaches and the better personal trainers are familiar with the two
distinct forms of muscular hypertrophy: sarcoplasmic and
myofibrillar. In case you are not I will give you a quick
rundown before we delve deeper into optimizing [...]
Date Published: Jan 11, 2012 - 4:57 am
Online Personal Trainer extraordinaire Martyn Sklayne has written a
nice, quick to read and digest, article on “Five Tips to Improve
Your Gym Results”. He details five points to bear in mind when
optimising your exercise regime, and even just to start applying
one or two of these tips should reap noticeable dividends in terms
[...]
Date Published: Jan 08, 2012 - 8:27 am
No! This isn’t a piece on how to get your home super spruce
and smart following the Christmas festivities! The power clean is
an extremely useful exercise for strength, power, and even just
plain old fat loss (for those of you who aren’t interested in being
“hench”). UP personal trainer Sally Moss has written an [...]
Date Published: Jan 06, 2012 - 1:51 am
Senior UP Personal Trainer Eddie Baruta consistently receives rave
reviews from his clients. He isn’t necessarily the right
personal trainer for those who want an easy ride and some extra
hand holding, but if you want results fast then you won’t find much
better anywhere. Here is an excerpt from what his client
Jeremy has [...]
Date Published: Dec 15, 2011 - 4:17 am