beginners
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Twelve Weeks From Today
Today is the 30th of September. Twelve weeks from today is the 23rd of December. Twelve weeks is long enough for the following to happen.
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Why the Class Beats Training on Your Own
Plenty of people have trained alone for twenty years and done perfectly well out of it. If you've got a programme, you follow it, and you know how to load a squat, solo training works.
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What Two Sessions a Week Buys You
The question comes up near the end of most first phone calls, usually apologetically. What's the minimum? People expect to be told five.
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What a 60-Minute Class Fits In
People arrive expecting an hour of shouting and burpees. It's a fair thing to expect from the internet.
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Coming Back After a False Start Somewhere Else
You joined a gym in January. You went four times in the first fortnight, twice more in February, and then not at all. The direct debit is still going out.
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Five Questions to Ask Before You Join Any Gym in Amersham
You've been meaning to sort this out since June. There are several options within a short drive, the websites all look similar, and you've read them all twice without getting closer to a decision.
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Why a Coach Beats an App
An app costs about a tenth of what coaching costs and it will give you a programme that's better written than most of what people do on their own. I'd rather someone trained off an app than wandered around a gym for a year. But be clear about what it can and can't do.
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What Happens When You Can't Finish the Workout
We've all been there, the clock running out with everyone else finished, and you still going.
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CrossFit or the Gym: Which One a Busy Amersham Parent Should Choose
There are several gyms within ten minutes of Amersham station and their websites all say roughly the same thing. Equipment, opening hours, a photo of someone on a treadmill. None of that is the decision you're making.
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September Starts Tomorrow. Here's How to Begin.
It's the last day of the summer holidays. Tomorrow the term starts, the diary resets, and for about a week everyone in Amersham is open to doing things
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Ignite: What the First Three Months Look Like
Most gyms sell you a membership and a door code. We don't, because it doesn't work for the person we're built for — someone who
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What Meaning to Get Back Into It Actually Costs
There's a cost to meaning to. Nobody puts a number on it, so it feels like nothing — a decision sitting harmlessly on a shelf, available whenever you'