Personal Trainers are a joke - blog about the misconceptions of what we really do and the ridiculous picture adverts on social media.
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Just saying that most of the adverts for personal trainers just doesn’t do a good PT justice and gives the wrong idea.  for example in this picture the PT is getting ready to grab the clients shoulder & lower back or is he asking his client to engage the core and bring his back up, I would think that protecting the kettlebells from sliding on that wood floor injuring his client would be a better use of his hands lol.  Now the guy in the picture is probably an awesome PT, but for some reason PTs always seem to orchestrate some bizarre picture either touching their clients or  bringing their hands near to a part of their clients body trying to highlight something.

Its just absolute BS really, we might touch or point to a body part to draw attention to a muscle, group or vertebrae or even to ensure a joint is in a safe area.  But for 60 minutes this might be a tiny part of the session only.  Maybe some novice coaches might spend a lot of time shadowing, protecting or touching their client but they soon learn to  grow out of that.

Every advert recently I have noticed on social media has a Personal Trainer concocting some weird orchestrated position for themselves and their clients.... Its giviing out a message thats all we do! touch up our clients.??  we don’t all do that lol!!

​The Big Vitamin Lie | Glenn Hill, Holistic Health Coach North East UK
 
I am going to explain the truth about vitamins and the fact that most of us aren’t having enough, which will be having a contribution towards ill health.  I will also explain what each vitamin does, you can use this to notice symptoms within yourselves and then maybe consider supplementing with a vitamin or mineral.   Vitamins are organic micro-nutrients that act like a spark plug in the body to keep us functioning well or “tuned up” these are needed for growth, vitality, resistance to disease and healthy ageing.
 
Supplementation of these doesn’t fix issues overnight, vitamins fill our deepest nutritional gaps and the fixes and regenerations can take as long as the health decline did in the first place.
 
Every recent study since the 1980s has concluded that even though people believe that they are eating a well balanced diet they are often well below the RDA (recommended daily allowance) for vitamins and minerals.  If you then consider that the RDAs are well outdated and are just set to reduce the chances of classic wartime diseases like rickets and scurvy and definitely not set for optimum health. 
A classic example is Vit D (also a hormone) made in the skin with the presence of sunlight with a RDA of 5mcg which might be enough to prevent rickets but 10x less than what people actually need for good health …50mcg.  The upper amount confers to the lowest risk of heart disease, cancer and osteoporosis.  Interestingly Vit D is linked to good health, better mood, happiness and increased libido.
 
To increase Vit D just get some more sun, especially between 12-3pm in the summer months or a couple of short 4 minute blasts on a sunbed twice weekly.  Take vit D & A together or as part of a multi vitamin if you are supplementing, people with depression in the winter months should consider an increase to vit D.

To be honest for a lot of people and speaking from years of experience, weight loss is just like fighting against a locked door.  because there are certain things going on inside the body that slow down or stop weight loss & unless you address these issues nothing will work.

So what are the 7 reasons & do you suffer with one or more?

The advanced Personal Trainer programme is my solution to a problem that I encountered when I started doing Personal Training.  I finished my residential PT course I had money to invest, I wanted to dominate my area, i wanted high end clients.  "I had literally no idea how to achieve all of this".

4 years later and in excess of10K of additional investment I offer a service that I beleive is the best in the area, dont get me wrong some of this money was an absolute waist of my time and money.

For example i attended a "metafit strong course" waste of time as I felt as though i knew more than the instructors, so still of a benefit as it helped myself feel confident about my knowledge.

My course is the course that they should put on the end of a PT course, so when you start your PT journey you are ready to kill it.

Whats the course about?

Becoming a high end PT and becoming credible in your local area.

• marketing - being able to promote my services well so everybody knows what i am about and dominating local search engines.  Notice the search terms and all the results are mine...booosh

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if you like the idea of this coures click the button below....

Personal Trainer Durham - Glenn Hill

​If you are over 30, 40 older please read this.. it could make your life much more enjoyable and help you to live decades longer.
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Firstly just because you are over 30/40/50/60 you don’t have to be stuck with the body you have! Fact, I honestly promise you.
Secondly if you don't know what is happening with your hormones such as oestrogen, progesterone, dhea and testosterone you are probably pushing against a locked door.

​It won't matter how well you train or what you eat!!!
The reason I know all of this apart from being a geek and reading a lot is... I have been fighting my hormones for a few years which meant I never felt that I was in a good enough condition for a personal trainer or so I felt. 
Recently I had my bloods/hormones and everything tested by a world renowned specialist to find out about my low energy, lack of muscle and motivation. With some changes I now feel like a man 15 years younger and feel much stronger and confident even with my clothes off. 
Believe me!
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It has meant I am taking supplements for 3 months for my liver, digestion, energy and hormones... I have put on over 2kg of muscle in a matter of weeks and feel fantastic.
I have been involved in fitness for around 20 years, ex Army Para Engr, Frogman and PTI. Now a twice National Award Shortlisted PT, NLP practitioner, Kinesiology practitioner, Bodymap practitioner and nutrition geek. Not trying to show off, just explain that if I needed help then it's okay for you to get help too.
Even macho men need some help - sometimes.
Unlike nearly everybody else, I honestly promise that I can help any 40,50,60 plus men in getting back into the shape of 20 years previous. Decrease Metabolic age drastically.

I would insist that you take the specialist blood test, follow the advice and train hard with myself. Depending on how bad you have let yourself go, will be unrecognisable within 3 to 6 months.
This isn't a cheap package.. your blood is being tested by someone who has published 3 books on hormones,weight loss and who is internationally recognised.
This is a guaranteed package that only 2
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Other PT clients in the North East are doing, with devastating effects. 
You will be training with one of the most credible health coaches in the region.
Getting in touch with myself will absolutely change your life more than you could ever have imagined. This isn't hype or an idle promise!

​feel decades younger by changing your hormonal balance

​£2000
hormonal over 30 life changer
3 months of unlimited training, coaching with Glenn Hill & blood analysis and  lifestyle fix with world renowned coach and author Phil Richards.
Detailed health action plan including:

1. gut health
2. liver health
3. ​heart health
4. blood and cellular health
5. hormone balance including oestrogen and testosterone
6. thyroid health
7. mineral levels
8. vitamin levels

Health plan to knock decades of you 
Nutritional supplements worth up to £500
Detailed nutrition plan
Myzone belt worth £120
Motivation band
Sports Massage/Rehab
Health Assessments
Mindset Coaching

If you can afford it and you would like to feel like you did in your twenties or thirties, get in touch today.

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Glenn is talking about creatine, why we need it and individuals who may need to use extra creatine.  Creatine is an anti catabolic fuel that is created in the body and is used to fuel  high intensity exercise. 

Creatine is found in beef, pork, fish and supplementation.  Has been proven through decades of testing to improve faster muscle contraction and making extra ATP or energy.  As much as we all have creatine within the body especially if we eat a balanced diet, most people can benefit greatly through using creatine.   Sports people, body builders can all seriously improve performance, results and increase muscle growth  by using creatine.

No longer as popular as it once was, due partly to a list of negative side effects if you use too much, especially when added to other supplements such as caffeine.  Still safe when used correctly at a low dose of 5 grams each time.

some stats

• 80-100% is readily absorbed
• up to 70% is phosphorilated into cell
• up to 40% is left as free creatine, immediate use
• 4-6 weeks for muscles to be clear of the additional creatine

modern implementation

In the olden days we would always load for 5-7 days prior to starting our regime, through testing taking the creatine 3 times per day at a 5grams is sufficient to improve ATP production and increast performance.  Taking more generally wont improve performance, so stick to a low load.

Not everybody responds

Best responses:
individuals with more fat free mass
People with lower muscle creatine
​Greater type 2 muscle (fast twitch)

Vegetarians and vegan diets are significantly lower in (Cr) Creatine

This means a significant reduction in strength, improvement in fitness and less muscle development.  If you add this fact to the fact that vegetable proteins are much less easily absorbed than egg or whey protein this can seriously reduce fitness improvements and fitness.

So taking additional creatine can really  improve fitness for vegetarians.

So if you havent tried creatine yet, you are stuck in a rut or are a vegetarian struggling at weight loss why not give creatine a try?

thanks for your time, if you would like more help with supplementation drop me a line on 07983570574

​Glenn

The summer holiday season is almost over and as usual loads of local lads and lasses are trying to ditch their holiday excess flab.  It seems like a never ending cycle for most of weight loss training & dieting before holiday, huge weight gain on our holidays & depression and attempted weight loss again after.  

This constant yoyo dieting can only negatively effect our metabolisms and make exercise & healthy eating seem like torture.   We already have the difficulty  of shedding the UK average of 6-8lb of Cristmas flab every year.  It has been proven time and time again that the best way to REMAIN fit and healthy is steady continuous exercise and eating real food.

So little (holidays) exercise breaks abusing our bodies for 7-14 days 3 or four times a year just leads to unhealthy diets, unhappiness, binges and a slower metabolism in the end, which can sometimes lead to metabolic syndrome later on in life. (metabolism which loses the ability to function well, storing and holding onto excess fat).

Personal Trainer Durham Glenn Hill - Press up challenge

I am joining the team to complete 22 million press ups/push ups in order to raise awereness for ex military who have struggled with what they have seen and done and end up commiting suicide.  Only ex forces can know the struggle, but i am sure everyone can emphathise with the mental health problems associated with military life.

So why 22 press ups or push ups as the yanks call them......

So on social media, Facebook and Twitter you video yourself doing 22 press ups for 22 days.  Each day you can nominate a friend.  Please on your comments explain why you are doing it and the state #22pushups for #22kill and then the 22kill website will add your press ups to the total.

​The benefit is if you nominate a person, you are reminding everyone about the soldiers and their struggles and you are helping the nominee to get fitter be doing loads of press ups.

WIN WIN!

If you have friends or family in the forces and would like to do your bit by highlighting the problem and showing support for your troops.

If you would like to see my 22 days of 22 press ups add me as a friend and see the videos on Facebook “Glenn Hill” on FB.

Get adding your friends and join this movement.

Glenn Hill

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Meet Tom, he is unbeaten and decided a holistic approach to training is the way to go.  He has chosen itrainhard fitness to ensure that he is in the best possible position going into a title fight, we will be looking at fitness and conditioning of course.  

We will also be looking at mindset, belief and mental strength to absolutely ensure Tom is totally prepared to win on the big day.

So Tom can look forward to the conjugate method, he wont be doing boring stuff that wont really improve his fitness he will be doing tough varied training at a very high level.