Fitbit Fitness trackers P1

Welcome to 5.14 fitness,  Hi everybody. It was addressed in the last post how and why their has been a lack of posts. I apologise for it myself! So, in this post I will shortly talk about my interest in the Fitbit ftiness trackers. Fitbbit is a company who sell fitness bands ( like smart watches...

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Sorry + current ab workout

Welcome to 5.14 fitness,I apologise for no posts of late, but unfortunately due to circumstances this will be a repeating issue over the next year, with myself and will both occupied with school work and exams. However I thought I would do a very quick post on my current workout:For abdominals 5 sets of 25 reps crunches 25 reps left/right side crunches25 reps right/left some crunches25...

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How can Training be Adapted to Suit a Hockey Player- Requested Post

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness, This is a question I have been asked so I thought I would produce the answer in the form a post, apologies for lack of posts, I think its been around two weeks since the last one and that's simply because we have just got back to school and trying to sort out our personal lives. Sorry not sorry! How can training be adapted to suit a hockey player? In hockey, for a player...

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My Start To Jogging/Running Week 2

Welcome to 5.14 fitness, As you can see from my previous posts, I had decided to go running four times a week whilst I am on my six week holiday. The reason for this was to have an exercise which I could maintain and fit into my schedule as it gets jumbled around and becomes hectic due to the holiday....

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My start to Jogging/Running - Week 1

Welcome to 5.14 fitness,  As you can see from my last post, I had decided to go running four times a week whilst I am on my six week holiday. The reason for this was to have an exercise which I could maintain and fit into my schedule as it gets jumbled around and becomes hectic due to the holiday. I wanted to do something that makes you feel good and helps as I will be eating more and being...

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New workout day 1 analysis

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness,Is post will go over the day 1 of 14 day workout I am completing whilst I am on holiday in Turkey, there are 3 days worth of exercise that will be repeated over and in a cycle. So on the fourth day of the two weeks I will be performing day 1 routine again.Also remember that if you are trying this workout yourself remember it is designed for my ability and towards my goals....

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My routine ( 1 year of blogging )

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness,I know this post has been a long time coming but you ha to understand one thing, we are bad bloggers. We never upload pictures, post frequently or even stick to what we say. Yet still you keep coming back and listen to what we have to say and give us this amazing feedback and...

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My Start To Jogging/Running

Welcome to 5.14 fitness,  Hi guys, today I will be writing about how I am starting to go running.  It is the start of the holidays for myself, and I have six weeks of no school or work. This means I will not be out and about as much as usual, and therefore I need to stay in shape . My schedule...

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Back to Basic #2

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness, This post continue from the previous back to basics, expat get the foundations of activity and exercise.Stages of participation:Foundation- beginner, first time Participation - non competitive, school clubsPerformance- competitive, tournamentsExcellence- Olympics, the best Categories of influence ( remembered as CHIPS R):Culture: race, age, gender, religion Health:...

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My Goals - May Update

Welcome to 5.14 fitness, Hi guys, I apologise for the long absence but both Jack and I have had two weeks of exams so have not had the time to post.  However, these exams are now over and we are reading to get back to business, and I am starting by updating on my goals and routines.  It...

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Back and Back to Basics #1

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness,  I have to apologise for the absence of posts recently, I think it has been over two weeks since the last one, however I am sure you can appreciate that both myself and Will have both just finished our exams for the year so we have been busy revising. So we apologise but we will try to get things back to routinely fashion as soon as possible.This post will be the first...

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Cardio - What To Do? Part 4

Welcome to 5.14 fitness, Today I will be carrying on a series of posts about Cardio and the different ways to do it. Almost every sport has cardio implemented, whether it is running in football or swimming in water polo. This cardio is key in order to become a healthier, fitter and thinner person....

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Principles of Training

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness, Guys it is still exam season so the excuse behind the lack of posts is that we are temporarily occupying our time in alternative ways. However I can promise daily diaries will return next week. This is a GCSE PE worksheet used in schools By using the principles of training as a framework we can plan a personal training programme that uses scientific principles to improve...

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Benefits Of Running

Welcome to 5.14 fitness, Today I will be posting something a little different - the benefits of running. I found an article which sums up the rewards of this form of exercise extremely well. Here are the six benefits given from www.active.com.  Improve Your Health Believe it or not, running is actually a great way to increase your overall level of health.  Research shows that running...

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Cardio- What To Do? Part 3

Welcome to 5.14 fitness,  Today I will be carrying on a series of posts about Cardio and the different ways to do it. Almost every sport has cardio implemented, whether it is running in football or swimming in water polo. This cardio is key in order to become a healthier, fitter and thinner person....

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Injuries Part 2

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness,   I apologies for how long it has taken me to produce this post, however we are in the process of making a lot of changes to our house and this is what has occupied the majority of my free time recently. It may be another week or so until posts can...

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Cardio - What to do? Part 2

Welcome to 5.14 fitness, Today I will be carrying on a series of posts about Cardio and the different ways to do it. Almost every sport has cardio implemented, whether it is running in football or swimming in water polo. This cardio is key in order to become a healthier, fitter and thinner person....

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Injuries Part 1 (5000 views !)

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness, So about a month and a half ago, I released a post thank you all for 3000 views of the blog, well within the 5 days prior to this post we managed to smash 5000 views! To put this in to context, we managed 2000 in less than 2 months. This is absolutely mental and we are...

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My Goals Update + New Weights Workout

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness,  Today I will be posting about how my workouts are going and how I have achieved my goals.  As I have said, I planned to do Insanity 3 times a week followed by 20 minutes of weight lifting. On the other 3 days, I planned to do weight lifting followed by an abdominal...

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