VO₂ Max: The Fitness Metric That Says More About Your Health Than Steps or Calories
NEWS AND FITNESS Fitness Insights
VO₂ max is one of the strongest indicators of cardiovascular fitness and long-term health. Here’s why it matters, how it works, and how new technology is making it easier to measure.
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Your Final 6-Week Marathon Countdown: 5 Science-Backed Moves to Stay Injury-Free and Run Your Strongest Race
NEWS AND FITNESS Fitness Insights Sports Performance Coaching
With six weeks to go until marathon day, these five science-backed strategies can help you stay injury-free, recover well, and arrive at the start line ready to run your strongest race.
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Josh Rowlands – Strength & Conditioning Coach
Team Profiles
Josh was attracted to PerformancePro for the opportunity to apply his knowledge and experience to support a diverse range of people
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Your health and festive fitness
NEWS AND FITNESS Fitness Insights
This month, your health and festive fitness are more important than ever. Let us help you alleviate stress, boost your immunity, avoid weight gain AND enjoy some quality solo time.
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Chloe Parker and PerformancePro
Client Profiles
Chloe Parker, is a competitive jiu-jitsu hobbyist. She started training with PerformancePro over 6 months ago following a sports injury
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Andy Gray and PerformancePro
Client Profiles
Andy Gray first came across PerformancePro over ten years ago. He started training then and hasn’t stopped since!
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The Power of Brown Fat – Part 2
Fitness Insights
PerformancePro’s Brown Fat series, director, Dan Boulle, shares more about about how to boost brown fat to improve metabolism.
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The Power of Brown Fat – Part 1
Fitness Insights
A Natural Key to Wellness and Vitality. PerformancePro Director, Dan Boulle, discovers more about the benefits of brown fat
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The Power of Walking for a Healthier You
Fitness Insights
Find out why the quest for effective weight management, the solution might be right under our feet.
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Alfred Wong – Personal Trainer
Team Profiles
Meet Alfred Wong, PerformancePro Personal Trainer. His focus is on enhancing sports performance, improving movement quality as well as optimising body composition.
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Summer jogging – stay safe
NEWS AND FITNESS Fitness Insights
Many of us choose summer jogging to keep us ticking over, PP Director Dan Boulle, shares some useful tips to keep you safe
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Flavia Masini – Personal Trainer
Team Profiles
Meet Flavia Masini, PerformancePro Trainer, Soft Tissue Therapist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach
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Brishan O’Brien – Trainer and Running Coach
Team Profiles
Brishan O’Brien, Personal Trainer and Running Coach specialises in strength, endurance performance and sports specific training
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Jason Cook – Strength and Conditioning Coach
Team Profiles
Meet Jason Cook, Strength and Conditioning Coach at PerformancePro. Jason specialises in using powerlifting principles to help his clients build muscle, increase strength or to improve overall quality of life
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Jessica Farmer and PerformancePro
Client Profiles
Jessica Farmer became a PerformancePro client in summer 2022. ‘It is the opposite of what I thought a gym would be!’
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Dr David Hulse and PerformancePro
Fitness Insights Client Profiles
Meet Dr David Hulse, a Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine. He is also a Team Physician who trains regularly with PerformancePro
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Nigel Stephens – doctor and athlete
Fitness Insights Client Profiles
Dr Nigel Stephens is a Consultant Cardiologist, he is also an athlete who trains regularly with PerformancePro.
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The science of longevity
Fitness Insights
The science of longevity, is there such a thing? PerformancePro director, Daniel Boulle, reflects on how to navigate the mid-life years.
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DAN MCCARTHY – STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Team Profiles
Meet Dan McCarthy, PerformancePro strength and conditioning coach and newest member of our team. Dan’s impressive track record speaks for itself
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BEN LEWIS – STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Team Profiles
Meet Ben Lewis, PerformancePro strength and conditioning coach. Ben brings 13 years of experience to PerformancePro, from the National Basketball Association to movie sets and more.
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Good news about Good Nutrition!
Nutrition
An appetising pairing and taste sensation! Exciting and nutritious news for PerformancePro clients…
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WE’RE MORE THAN A GYM
PERFORMANCEPRO SERVICES Team Profiles
PerformancePro is more than a gym. Meet our team of friendly, highly qualified human beings.
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JAMIE BAIRD – STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Team Profiles
Meet Jamie Baird, PerformancePro strength and conditioning coach. With a taste for success, Jamie has a fantastic track record training others, plus more than a few other strings to his bow!
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JAMIE SAWYER – STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Team Profiles
Meet Jamie Sawyer. Specialising in strength and conditioning, rehabilitation and sport-specific training, Jamie is the trainer many athletes and superheroes want on their side!
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WE’RE HERE FOR YOU
NEWS AND FITNESS Offers
Wherever and whatever your starting point, PerformancePro is here for you.
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Your Win Win with PerformancePro
NEWS AND FITNESS Offers
Enjoy a FREE training session and the chance to win a Home Training Kit. There has never been a better time to train with PerformancePro.
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Added extra with PerformancePro
NEWS AND FITNESS Offers
News of an extra benefit to being a PerformancePro client. And it’s a gift that keeps on giving… potentially!
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ZOOM FITNESS – A DIRECTOR’S INSIGHT
NEWS AND FITNESS Fitness Insights Personal Training
Zoom fitness training, is it as effective? PerformancePro director Dan Boullé shares his insights into online training.
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HYBRID TRAINING – The best of both worlds
Fitness Insights Personal Training
Hybrid Training is the mix of online and in person fitness training. We also like to call it the best of both worlds!
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Online Remote Coaching
NEWS AND FITNESS Personal Training Sports Performance Coaching
Discover THE best online remote coaching with PerformancePro. Get fitter, stronger and faster, wherever you live…
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Online Personal Training
NEWS AND FITNESS Personal Training
World Class Online Personal Training from London’s best trainers to anywhere in the world.
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THE RISK OF PHYSICAL INACTIVITY
Fitness Insights
How big a risk is physical inactivity to likelihood of severe COVID-19 outcomes?
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YES, WE’RE OPEN FROM 12 APR
NEWS AND FITNESS
Come train with us. Our new health and safety measures are in place. We can’t wait to welcome you back!
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PRIORITISE YOUR HEALTH
NEWS AND FITNESS
Now is the time to prioritise your health. How exercise improves mental and physical health, including our immune system
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Festive fitness tips
Fitness Insights
It’s fitness as usual at PerformancePro over the festivities
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V02 max – increase your oxygen uptake
Fitness Insights
How to increase your oxygen consumption to help safeguard against respiratory illnesses including COVID-19
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BACK TO TRAINING AT A SAFE DISTANCE
NEWS AND FITNESS
Confident and relieved to get back to training, PerformancePro clients tell us how they feel about the measures we’ve put in place
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DANIEL BABY – STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Team Profiles
Meet Daniel Baby, PerformancePro strength and conditioning coach. Dan combines his lifelong interest in sport health with his commitment to sustainable fitness
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Staying Safe & Winter Running
NEWS AND FITNESS
Author Marc Brown, PerformancePro Coach. With the weather turning of late, here are Marc Brown’s eight tips to ensure you stay safe whilst running in…
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In The News
NEWS AND FITNESS Media
Our PerformancePro strength and conditioning coach Mel Kent features in Women’s Fitness this month. Read Mel’s tips to staying motivated and the full article here….
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Nick Frendo’s PerformancePro Journey
NEWS AND FITNESS Personal Training Sports Performance Coaching
This week we had the pleasure of meeting @nickfrendo, a mental health ambassador for @movember. Nick’s Ambition Nick plans on riding 4382 km in March,…
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DRY JANUARY – THE IMPACT ALCOHOL HAS ON PERFORMANCE
NEWS AND FITNESS Nutrition
The team explore the myths and health benefits around alcohol on performance. Many of us do Dry January each year, but do we really understand…
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New Year, New News
NEWS AND FITNESS Media
Featured in the January edition of Men’s Fitness, PerformancePro coach and GB Powerlifting Champion Rob Rees takes readers through a Survival of the Fittest workout….
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FITNESS TRENDS COMING IN 2026
NEWS AND FITNESS Fitness Insights
From functional fitness, to the plant-based nutrition trend set to continue, the PerformancePro team explore the 5 Big Trends coming up in the next 12…
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XMAS TRAINING TIPS
NEWS AND FITNESS
Amongst the chaos of Xmas, the parties and the hangovers, how can you make sure you stay on track over the festive period. PerformancePro offer…
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Preparing for the slopes this winter
NEWS AND FITNESS Fitness Insights
Many of you may well be heading off to the Alps, America or even the powder fields of Japan for some festive fun in the…
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POSTURE AND SPINAL INJURY
NEWS AND FITNESS Physio and Rehab
IT’S A HUGE CONCERN FOR BUSINESSES With a reported 80 per cent of office workers not leaving the office all day and only 28 per…
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In The News This Week
NEWS AND FITNESS Media
How can exercises we do in the gym translate into our movement in the real world. Will explains all in our latest feature in coachmag….
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WHAT SETS US APART
NEWS AND FITNESS PERFORMANCEPRO SERVICES
There are gyms, and then there are gyms. The same can be said for trainers, coaches and equipment. The fitness industry has been through a…
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WILL McAULEY TALKS US THROUGH BENCH PRESS TECHNIQUE
NEWS AND FITNESS Media
Former competitive power lifter and PerformancePro strength and conditioning coach Will McAuley talks tips on mastering the bench press. To get the most from your…
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YOUR END OF SUMMER GUT HEALTH
Fitness Insights Nutrition
In the first of our new series of Seasonal Nutrition features, we review our summer gut health and how best we can reboot for the autumn.
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SPORTS PERFORMANCE SERIES – ROB REES
Sports Performance Coaching Team Profiles
Sports performance is key for PerformancePro. Meet Rob Rees, international powerlifting champion and PerformancePro coach.
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SPORTS PERFORMANCE SERIES – ALTON BROWN
Sports Performance Coaching
Sports performance coaching is key for PerformancePro. Meet Alton Brown, world class athlete and Karate champion.
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Midlife Cycling – boost your performance
Sports Performance Coaching Cycle and Triathlon Training
In this Fitness Insight, we bring you the highlights of a PerformancePro sports science and cycling performance lecture.
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Spinal injury? We can help
Fitness Insights Physio and Rehab
In Part 3 of PerformancePro’s latest Physio and Rehab series, we focus on spinal injury.
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Lower back pain? We can help
Fitness Insights Physio and Rehab
Alex reached a point where he couldn’t even tie his shoe laces. Lower back pain? We can help…
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MENOPAUSE NUTRITION
Fitness Insights Nutrition
In the final part of PerformancePro’s popular Nutrition for Women series, we focus on menopause nutrition.
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NUTRITION FOR PREGNANCY
Fitness Insights Nutrition
In Part 2 of Nutrition for Women, we asked our Nutritionist and Naturopath for some essential guidance on nutrition for pregnancy
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BACK PAIN? WE CAN HELP
Fitness Insights Physio and Rehab
Back pain is the most common musculoskeletal complaint in the UK. PerformancePro works with Oxford Circus Physiotherapy so you receive the best integrated physio and rehab.
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Marathon Recovery – 6 simple tips
Fitness Insights Sports Performance Coaching
Nearly there! In the last of our Marathon Training series, PerformancePro shares 6 simple tips to help with your marathon recovery
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NUTRITION FOR WOMEN PART 1 – PERIOD!
Fitness Insights Nutrition
In Nutrition for Women Part 1, we shed some light on what some of your PMS symptoms may be telling you.
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Gary Kemp and PerformancePro
Fitness Insights Client Profiles
Hear Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp talk about his love of cycling and his longstanding relationship with PerformancePro.
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The Marathon – 10 Race Week Tips
Fitness Insights Sports Performance Coaching
The Marathon season is here! In Part 2 of PerformancePro’s Marathon Training series, we share 10 tips to help ensure your final preparations go smoothly
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Marathon Training – Six reasons to be positive
Fitness Insights Sports Performance Coaching
Is your marathon training well under way? In our latest series, PerformancePro running coach Marc Brown shares some much-needed encouragement
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In conversation with Gary Kemp
Events
Join us in conversation with Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp and others talking fitness, cycling and nutrition
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2019 NEXT STEPS
Fitness Insights
Ready for your next steps? A few weeks into 2019 and hopefully you’re feeling better by taking the New Year one step at a time. So what’s next?
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AN EXTRA HELPING FOR JANUARY
NEWS AND FITNESS Offers
We know it’s hard to find motivation at this time of year. So we’ve found an extra way to make it easier for you to come and see us…
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2019 one step at a time
Fitness Insights
Let’s take 2019 one step at a time! PerformancePro director Dan Boulle, starts the new year with a welcome slice of common sense.
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A festive fitness guide – for the real world
Fitness Insights
In your Festive Fitness guide, PerformancePro director, Dan Boulle takes a wry look at the season ahead. Tips on how to enjoy AND look after yourself!
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TIME OUT – A FESTIVE FITNESS GUIDE PART 2
Fitness Insights
In Time Out, part two of PerformancePro’s Festive Fitness guide, director, Dan Boulle offers some suggestions on what to watch and read for inspiration.
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Your Health and Festive Fitness
Fitness Insights Personal Training
This month, your health and festive fitness are more important than ever. Let us help you alleviate stress, boost your immunity, avoid weight gain AND enjoy some quality solo time.
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TRAIN MORE FOR LESS, BOOK BEFORE FRI 21 DEC AND SAVE £100’s
Offers Personal Training
Why wait ’til January. Train more for less from NOW until Christmas AND stock up for the New Year too, saving all the way
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Ski Fitness Training #2
Sports Performance Coaching
In Part 2 of our Ski Fitness Training series, PerformancePro director Dan Boulle focuses on a professional approach to effective ski training, plus a few living room tips!
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The National Fitness Awards – PerformancePro is shortlisted
NEWS AND FITNESS
PerformancePro has been nominated and now shortlisted for Gym of the Year in this year’s National Fitness Awards…
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SKI FITNESS TRAINING #1
Fitness Insights Sports Performance Coaching
In this first part of our Ski Fitness Training series, PerformancePro director Dan Boulle shares his passion and some professional tips to help you prepare.
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The Gut and Brain – your good health
Nutrition
The essential relationship between our gut and brain is only just being understood. Learn more with PerformancePro.
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DAVE RICHARDS – STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Personal Training Team Profiles
Meet Dave Richards, PerformancePro strength and conditioning coach. From professional footballer to training his clients at PerformancePro, Dave has always been interested in fitness, exercise and coaching.
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ROB REES – STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Personal Training Team Profiles
Meet Rob Rees, PerformancePro strength and conditioning coach. In between coaching and his own powerlifting training for the British Powerlifting Championships, we find out more about him.
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Meet Performance Training Academy
Fitness Insights
PerformancePro likes to team up with other fitness experts, especially when it helps further our commitment to sports education
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Team PP, come rain or shine!
Cycle and Triathlon Training
PerformancePro’s Enable Cycle Team braved the elements to complete last month’s Prudential RideLondon and raise funds for the One to One Children’s Fund.
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Boost your cycle performance – from your own home!
Fitness Insights Cycle and Triathlon Training
With two ambitious cycle races coming up in July, PerformancePro shares six top tips to help you boost your own cycle performance
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MEET PP’s RIDELONDON TEAM AND HELP US REBUILD CHILDREN’S LIVES
NEWS AND FITNESS
Meet PerformancePro’s RideLondon team 2018 and help us raise much-needed money for the One to One Children’s Fund.
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Feeling good with PerformancePro
Personal Training Client Profiles
Sarah Stratford is a life-loving, busy 39 year old mum of (nearly) two and a successful business woman. She is also a PerformancePro client keen to share her experience…
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WILL MCAULEY – STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Personal Training Team Profiles
Meet Will McAuley, PerformancePro strength and conditioning coach. Will may be the newest member of our team but he’s a natural coach.
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JOIN OUR PP ENABLE CYCLE TEAM TODAY
NEWS AND FITNESS
PerformancePro is supporting the One to One Children’s Fund, starting NOW. Join the PP ENABLE Cycle Team for RideLondon 2018!
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FAT FACTS – BODY COMPOSITION #2
Fitness Insights Personal Training Nutrition
In Fat Facts, the last in our Body Composition series, we guide you through the good fat, bad fat confusion.
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MEET BODYSCAN – X-RAY PRECISION
Fitness Insights Personal Training Nutrition
Meet Bodyscan, PerformancePro partner and the UK’s leading authority on the use of DEXA X-ray technology to measure body fat composition.
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Body Composition #1 – The F Word
Fitness Insights Personal Training Nutrition
In PerformancePro’s latest series of fitness insights, we guide you through the facts about body composition and fat levels.
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Cycle Performance Training in action
Cycle and Triathlon Training Client Profiles
When it comes to cycle performance training, even Cyclefit’s Julian Wall admits it’s taken him 54 years to finally concede that he doesn’t know everything.
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Strength Training for Women – Part 2
Fitness Insights Personal Training
In Part 2 of Strength Training for Women, PerformancePro’s Director of Education, looks at the specifics of strength, endurance and body composition.
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ALEX ADAMS – STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Sports Performance Coaching Team Profiles
Meet Alex Adams, Strength and Conditioning Coach. First and foremost Alex is motivated by his love of physical training and his desire to share that passion with others.
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STRENGTH TRAINING FOR WOMEN – PART 1
Fitness Insights Personal Training
Myths abound when it comes to strength training for women. In the first of our series of Strength Training for Women, PerformancePro looks behind the sports science.
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Cyclefit the Perfect Fit
Cycle and Triathlon Training
Meet Cyclefit and find out why PerformancePro’s relationship with this world-class company really is the perfect fit.
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Protein in the house
Nutrition
Meet Protein Haus, our new nutrition partner with news of a tasty deal for PerformancePro clients.
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MEET GPM10 – CYCLING WITH THE BEST
Cycle and Triathlon Training
Meet GPM10. As part of our Cycling with the Best season, we’re delighted to profile one of our favourite companies. Plus news of a great new GPM10 deal for our clients!
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Give the gift of fitness
Events
Help those you love take that first or next step towards a fitter, stronger, smarter 2018 with a PerformancePro fitness gift voucher.
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