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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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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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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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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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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WE’RE HERE FOR YOU
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Wherever and whatever your starting point, PerformancePro is here for you.
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Your Win Win with PerformancePro
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Give the gift of fitness
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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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Insomnia Insights – the science
Fitness Insights
In the final part of this series of Insomnia Insights, we look at the science behind the changes PerformancePro director Dan made to tackle his insomnia.
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Beyond better sleep
Fitness Insights
Better sleep was all PerformancePro director Dan was after. A month into his new regime the results were way beyond better sleep.
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TACKLING INSOMNIA – EIGHT SMALL CHANGES
Fitness Insights
In Tackling Insomnia, PerformancePro director, Dan Boulle identifies that the one big change he needed was made up of eight small changes.
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The Truth is… by Dan Boulle
Fitness Insights
The truth is things had come to head. In this new series of Fitness Insights PerformancePro director Dan Boulle shares his recent struggles with insomnia…
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THE DEADLIFT SET UP – PART 2
Fitness Insights Personal Training
In Part 2 of the PerformancePro Deadlift series we look at how different body types affect your deadlift set up.
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The Deadlift – Part 1
Fitness Insights Personal Training
In Part 1 of the PerformancePro Deadlift series, we cut through the complexity of deadlift definition and schools of thought.
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Your Gut Health
Fitness Insights Nutrition
Once you’re on top of your healthy eating, the next step is to consider your gut health. How effective is your body at using the fuel you put in it?
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Fitter, stronger and pain free
Fitness Insights Personal Training
At PerformancePro we take the ‘personal’ in personal training to heart. In this profile, long term client James Rigg shares his experience with PerformancePro.
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STRENGTH and CONDITIONING #4
Fitness Insights Physio and Rehab
In the final part of this PerformancePro Strength and Conditioning series, we look at the important relationship between strength training and rehabilitation.
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Strength and Conditioning #3
Fitness Insights Personal Training
In Part 3 of PerformancePro’s Strength and Conditioning series, we explore strength and conditioning training at professional level.
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Strength and Conditioning #2
Fitness Insights Personal Training
In Part 2 of PerformancePro’s Strength and Conditioning series, we look at the key components of strength training within your S & C programme.
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Strength and Conditioning #1
Fitness Insights Personal Training
Part 1 of PerformancePro’s Strength and Conditioning series gives you an overview of the essential role strength training plays in your everyday life and personal fitness.
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CYCLE TRAINING CAMPS – A GPM10 PARTNER DEAL
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With two superb GPM10 cycle training camps in Girona (March) and Mallorca (April), now’s the time to take advantage of a new PerformancePro partner deal.
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Brainpower Reading with PerformancePro
Fitness Insights
As you know PerformancePro is about Brainpower as well as physical fitness. To help inspire you over the festive period, we’ve put together a list of good reads.
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Your free kitbag and training pack
NEWS AND FITNESS
Pick up your free kitbag and training pack at PerformancePro. Not just for Christmas, this new client benefit makes life easier and is literally ‘fit for purpose’…
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PerformancePro in The Guardian
NEWS AND FITNESS Media
In The Guardian magazine, writer, researcher and PerformancePro client, Nicolle Smith, shares her experience of taking up weightlifting
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Running 5K with Marie Claire
NEWS AND FITNESS Media
For a professional opinion on how to run your best ever 5K race in record time, magazine Marie Claire turned to PerformancePro and our strength and conditioning coach Alex Adams.
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Hungry? A taste of things to come
NEWS AND FITNESS
From 12 October, all our clients can fuel and refuel with deliciously healthy food and drink from our very own Farmstand at PerformancePro.
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Paralympics 2016 – the sky is the limit
Fitness Insights
The sky is the limit for wheelchair athletes who have the opportunity and access to train with professional coaches.
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Strength Training for Runners – Part 3
Fitness Insights Personal Training Sports Performance Coaching
In Part 3 of Strength Training for Runners, we give you a starting point for your own training and look at professional strength training and…
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Eat Sweat Play and Read Brainpower
NEWS AND FITNESS Fitness Insights
PerformancePro is about Brainpower and physical fitness. We like to share sources of inspiration like Eat Sweat Play, essential reading by Anna Kessel.
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Strength Training for Runners – Part 2
Fitness Insights Personal Training Sports Performance Coaching
In part 2 of Strength Training for Runners, we look at outputs, recruitment of muscle fibres and tendon elastic abilities.
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Strength Training for Runners
Fitness Insights Personal Training Sports Performance Coaching
In Strength Training for Runners, our resident Olympic weightlifting trainer shares insights into the sports science behind structured strength training for runners
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Going steady with Marie Claire
NEWS AND FITNESS Media
For a professional opinion on the latest fitness trend LISS Cardio Low Intensity Steady State Cardio, magazine Marie Claire turned to PerformancePro.
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Win tickets for “Can You Hear Me Running?”
NEWS AND FITNESS
“I never imagined how losing the strength in one muscle would lead me to find another…” The exceptional story of Louise Breckon-Richards
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Sports Massage – the magic touch
Fitness Insights Physio and Rehab
Massage is not a treatment loved by everyone. But for those who don’t partake, we recommend you reconsider.
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Footnotes from the saddle
Fitness Insights Cycle and Triathlon Training
Sportive Insider: Top Tips On The Tour de France Pyrenees Haute Route With the excitement of the Tour de France now upon us, many of…
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Good company at PerformancePro
NEWS AND FITNESS Events
Clients and guests joined us for Brainpower in Action, a night of inspiration, celebration and food for thought powered by PerformancePro and to raise funds for Help for Heroes.
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Rehabilitation with PerformancePro – side by side
Fitness Insights Physio and Rehab
When the PerformancePro team talks about rehabilitation, you get a real insight into what sets them apart and puts their approach way ahead of the rest of the field.
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PerformancePro – WE’RE MORE THAN A GYM
NEWS AND FITNESS
PerformancePro is more than a gym. Meet our team of friendly, highly qualified human beings.
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Our state-of-the-art gym in the heart of London
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On 4 January 2016 we opened the doors to our brand new gym, an athlete-grade training centre. Smack bang in the centre of London’s West End, we’re really convenient to drop in on before, during or after work.
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