For some, being asked to work from home may have caused a decrease in daily activity levels which in time, could be negatively impacting your weight management.
The steps that form part of your daily commute can account for a high percentage of your activity and therefore TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). This is important to note as your daily step count has the potential to burn more calories than your exercise sessions.
So, if you’re still exercising but sat at your home desk all day, you may not be burning as many calories as you thought/hoped for.
As a result, we’ve decided to come up with some creative solutions to help you increase your daily step count.
We understand it’s tempting to go straight to your desk space and not move until lunch or dinner but we want to show you how you can still get in a decent amount of activity even when you’re faced with a busy work schedule.

1.We’re not like other gyms

⁣Tunbridge Wells Personal Training offers a unique approach to working out. Rather than a one- size-fits-all take on things we focus on your individual needs, experience, and aims to help you reach your health and fitness goals. Our fully equipped studios are a calm, inclusive and welcoming environment compared to traditional gyms, where you can work out in peace under the guidance of your experienced and friendly Personal Trainer. There’s no waiting around for equipment and the gym is exclusively used for Personal Training meaning you can focus on what’s important - you and your workout!

When Friday comes around, it would be easy to relax your standards simply because ’its the weekend’, however, this 48 hour window equates to 29% of your overall week and what you do still matters. 

If nutrition is unaccounted for and you frequently use this time to over indulge, it could be the difference between seeing the results you work hard for during the week and not. 

As personal trainers we see clients work so hard for 5 days. Only for 1 or 2 days at the weekend undoing all the hard work. 

Often the same nutritional habits you have set up in the week should carry over to the weekend. 

Diets that are too restrictive may have an increased failure rate, a degree of flexibility is great, but too much and you risk losing sight of your goals.

Earlier this month two of our trainers undertook a massive 50 mile walk to raise money for Alzheimer's Society! Whilst the Proclaimers may have promised to walk 500 miles and 500 more, in reality we think 50 miles is a pretty impressive feat for a fantastic cause! We caught up with Vicky Young and Nathan Moseley to find out what inspired them, how they trained and what the day consisted of.

September is traditionally seen as the perfect time to make a fresh start, with a new season beginning, the fun but sometimes chaotic nature of the summer holidays behind us, and the kids being back to school freeing up more time to focus on you and put intentions into action.

⁣⁣With the Tunbridge Wells virtual 10km just around the corner. Sam is here to give you a few running tips to complete your own virtual 10km race or help break a personal record (PR). ⁣

A few months ago the London Marathon was postponed for the first time in its 39-year history. The latest in a long list of major sporting events that have had to take a rain check due to Covid-19, it has far reaching implications to both the athletes and charities involved. We caught up with TWPT Personal Trainer, Sam Rathmell, who had been training for the marathon for six months to find out more about the process of training for a marathon, adapting to it being cancelled and how even Personal Trainers sometimes struggle to motivate themselves to exercise!

“Make it fun, make it quick and make it safe”, TWPT’s Jamie Wagland shares his top tips for working out during lockdown

Heres some tips to help manage stress levels in a lockdown environment and maintain a good mindset,

This is Part three of TWPT's Health in lockdown blog series. Which focuses on how sleep is an important but often overlooked part of overall health. Sleep is so integral to the system that it can often be the easiest way to bridge plateaus if deficient. As a personal trainer, I often see plateaus in strength or weight loss overcome just by an improvement in sleeping habits. That step-up in weight lifted has sometimes just required a good night's sleep. Better control over the diet can be helped with improvements in sleep habits. Sleep can also, help make us more robust and deal with stressors more effectively.