There is a hormone called Leptin which controls our hunger and our feelings of satiety. Leptin is secreted by fat tissue and usually the higher our body fat percentage is the higher our leptin levels are. Having high leptin levels, which is often accompanied by leptin resistance has been associated with having high blood pressure, … Continue reading “Could this be stopping you from achieving your fat loss results?”

Is getting in shape hard? Yes it can be.Is it complex? NO.Do people make it seem complex? Yes People often ask me, how I measure progress? Mostly I use a camera, a mirror or statements made by other people. Body fat measurements, circumference measurements and weight can be a great way for measuring progress, but … Continue reading “Let me remove your confusion”

You want to create a sensational looking body, that allows you to feel amazing and you want to retain your physique once you acquire it. Acquiring a physique that you can maintain long term is just like building a house with strong foundations. If you don’t put strong foundations down the building will eventually sink … Continue reading “Lay the foundations first and then build a strong lean body that lasts a lifetime”

You know exactly what you want to achieve, you know what you need to do, but you can’t commit to what’s needed to achieve your goals because you’re working like a trooper all the time. I could easily say… “Your problem is; that your goal is not one of your top priorities in this moment … Continue reading “You want to get in shape but your work schedule is manic”

Personal Training with Harry Pointon is not just a workout 3 times a week with your personal trainer, its doing everything possible to ensure you get the body transformation results you want by removing anything that’s stopping you and addressing everything that you must do. Training on its own can not outweigh a bad diet … Continue reading “Nutritional gems for ultimate health and fat loss”

Something that I hugely believe in, is the importance of good quality sleep and this is one of the first areas I address with my personal training clients in Manchester. A third of our life is spent asleep if that’s not a statement of importance, I don’t know what is. It also just happens that … Continue reading “Get better fat loss and lean muscle building results by concentrating on your sleep”

Belly fat is super annoying, its super easy to accumulate and not so easy to get rid of. One cause of belly fat is too much stress, this could be from poor nutritional habits, lack of sleep, working too hard or training repetitively too often to name a few. Here are some tips to help … Continue reading “Burn off that annoying belly fat”

With so much information out there in magazines, the internet and on Personal Trainers Manchester websites it can be very confusing knowing which advise to follow. Most of the advice out there is great advice, but picking the right bits for you and actually following it without being tempted to try the next thing we … Continue reading “6 super simple tips for guys struggling to put lean muscle on (hard gainers)”

If you have a fitness event coming up and you want to get really fit in preparation for it but without putting your joints at risk then there is an alternative to pounding the pavement every other day jogging for an hour or so. Jogging isn’t great for the joints and it’s just plain boring, … Continue reading “Got a fitness event coming up? Want to get really fit without pounding the pavement and giving your joints unwanted pressure?”

Every week I speak to people in Manchester who have had personal trainers, been to boot camps, people who are board of achieving small scale body transformation results, only to back track to where they were before they started or even worse they have regressed due to following a so called fast track method to … Continue reading “Harry Pointon reveals the secrets to long lasting change”