New Management

The FISH studio has been sold and will now be known as MetamorFIT - the Studio. The business looks set to expand under the new management. There are already five Personal Trainers working out of the studio.

FISH will continue as well - Derek Prior will be returning to freelance Personal Training and will be working primarily from the MetamorFIT studio. This will allow me to focus on the training rather than the management of the business.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all our clients. If anyone is looking to change their lifestyle for the New Year, shed some weight, increase fitness, and achieve physique goals, then now is the time to do it.

Don't waste you money on a membership to a corporate gym - generally you'' get poor advice from poorly qualified instructors. Also, 95% of new gym members fail to use their membership within the first three months (but you are still tied in to the monthly rental for 12-18 months).

Your money would be better spent on Personal Training with one of our four (soon to be five) top quality and experienced trainers.

As a special incentive we are offering three sessions for the price of two during the month of January.

For enquiries, or to come and look around our studio, call Derek on 07871760054 or email fishtraining@yahoo.co.uk

HIT

Thanks for the comment on HIT (High Intensity Training). The training world is divided between HIT and HVT (high volume training). I tend to opt for a middle path - I find one set insufficient to stimulate all muscle fibres and excessive volume impedes recovery and tends to elicit an overtraining response.

Intensity (load) is generally considered the most important factor in strength training and, as Arthur Jones et al recognised, an increase in intensity requires a decrease in volume.

Once the training goal has been identified it is fairly straight forward to work out the rep range (i.e. 9-12 reps is optimal for hypertrophy); this rep range will correlate to % of 1RM (intensity).

I generally advocate brief training sessions - no more than 45-60 minutes, which prevents against gluconeogenesis/catabolism. Pre and post workout nutrition is also crucial if you want to optimise the training effect.