Strength Training :: Through strength training, the muscles themselves get larger, giving you a more sculpted and tighter body, and increasing your muscular strength. The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolic rate. The higher your metabolic rate, the more calories you burn. Muscle itself is highly metabolic: it requires a lot of calories not just to function, but to exist. Women especially tend to indulge in long bouts of cardio vascular endurance exercise in the hope of burning calories and losing fat. But only a combination of cardio vascular work and strength training will optimise fat loss. A Younique programme of safe and appropriate exercise and instruction will give you a healthy and enjoyable way to change your body shape. We cover the whole of London, surrounding counties and NOW Brighton!

Endurance training :: Stamina is important in all sports, particularly those involving bursts of running (eg, football, basketball and rugby) or lengthy matches (eg, tennis). In fact there are few sports that don't involve some level of endurance training – the term "endurance" is often used interchangeably with "speed", "strength", "aerobic" and "anaerobic" – so sport-specific endurance conditioning should form an integral part of your training. A lack of stamina not only hampers your physical performance, it can cause you to make unforced technical or tactical errors, as tiredness affects your mental alertness and reaction times. It can be a great confidence booster when your competitors, or even your team mates, start fading and you still have reserves to spare!

Toning and shaping :: A client will often specify to a Younique fitness trainer whether he or she wants to "tone" or to "build" muscle. Usually, but not always, women want to "tone," while men want to "build." Each person seems to have a pretty good idea of what kind of physique she or he wants.

Toning and building muscle, however, are basically the same physiologic process differing mainly in degree.

In the context of the body's normal functioning, "muscle tone" simply means that the muscle fibers are being stimulated by the central nervous system. But in common use, the designation "toned" pertains to the appearance of a musculature that is hard, as opposed to flaccid , and noticeable, but not overly so. In this respect a toned body implies a lean body, one low in body fat and showing some muscle definition and shape. By "building" muscle it is usually meant, getting as much muscle as possible up to and including the bodybuilder's look.

A Younique Fitness Trainer will design a programme that specifically helps you to tone and shape areas of your body that you have been unhappy with and explain fully the physiology of how and why you are achieving results.

Flexibility :: Although often overlooked, flexibility is an important aspect of fitness and can vary enormously form one person to another. Flexibility lowers the risk of injury and back problems; improves co-ordination, range of movement and posture; and reduces soreness after exercise. Stretching should form an integral part of warm up and cool down during a session, and at Younique Fitness we can recommend and instruct on safe and progressive stretching routines to enhance your overall feeling of well being.

Whatever your goal? The Younique Fitness Team can help

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