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When you pick up a bottle of vitamins or supplements they are invariably listed in order of weight, beginning with the one that has the highest content. Sometimes however, these labels are not so easy to read as they may well include items which are not vitamins or supplements at all and are simply required to help make the tablets, e.g. fillers, sugars, coatings. Also, vitamins are sometimes listed with their chemical name making it even harder to work out. The following is a short table listing those chemical names and the correspoinding vitamin for your reference. Continue reading "Deciphering The Vitamin Code" »

Sometimes, establishing and maintaining a positive mental attitude in business (or in your personal life for that matter) is less about being POSITIVE, and more about not being NEGATIVE. How many times have you planned to do something or agreed to do something, and before the day comes around you talk yourself out of it? This is often the case when something is outside of your comfort zone. You find excuses. David Schwartz called in Excusitis in his book The Magic of Thinking Big (great book by the way!).

This the story of Farmer McGinty and his neighbour Murphy and it's a great example... Continue reading "Murphy's Plough - Don't talk yourself out of..." »

Fibre: We're often being told we should eat plenty of it or more of it. As a child I remember being told by my grandfather I should eat my potato skins on my jacket potatoes as that's where all the fibre was. But what exactly is fibre? Why should we be eating it? Where do we get it from (apart from potato skins) and how much is enough? Continue reading "Fibre? What, why, where and how much?" »

So you have registered, validated your email, added your profile and added at least one class. Awesome. Well done! Also, a big thank you for getting that far. We will have already tweeted your class details at least once and a web page has been created for your organisation and for each of your classes. However, while most of our members fill in the basics, many don't take advantage of all the promotional opportunities available to them.

Read on for some tips on how to get the most from Fit2bFit. Remember it's a free service and we want you to exploit us. Not in a kinky way... but it's using the site to it's full potential that gives us the key to best promoting your classes in the search engines. Continue reading "Are you making the most from your free Fit2bFit..." »

If you are looking into starting a new fitness class, dance class or martial arts class, either for yourself or your children, make sure you ask the right questions of the instructor.

While it is true that there are many excellent class instructors out there, competition, laziness and sometimes just sheer dishonesty is leading others to cut corners.

So what should you be asking? Continue reading "Who is teaching you or your kids?" »

How many of us placed business cards at the top of our "must buy" list the day we started in business. There's nothing quite like the thrill of holding that small pile of cards in your hand with your business name and contact details for all to see for the first time. It says that you are a business owner, that you are significant, that you are master of your own destiny... Awesome!

But after handing them out to friends and family why is it that most of them sit on your desk, in a gym bag, the car glove box, or a jacket pocket for the next few months getting dog eared and/or gathering dust? Sound familiar? Then you are missing a trick my friends, because a business card is a mighty tool. Continue reading "The power of the business card" »

Forget the gym! Community exercise is the new trend.
Continue reading "New Year Press Release" »

With the cold season well and truly upon us (well some of us anyway) we thought we'd take a look at that essential supplement to help fight off the sniffles.

Continue reading "Vitamin C - The cold season's staple" »

So, last Friday I attended the first of a few Christmas "dos" this year, and true to form I found myself sharing a table with a chap who was heard to say, not once, but twice, my personal favourite of nutritional titbits, "Of course, you shouldn't eat any fruit really, it's full of sugar."

I resisted the temptation to run screaming from the room, or indeed to get on my soap box. To be fair, I was a couple of pints down and stuffing my face full of Balti and naan bread so any nutritional lesson from me at that time would be a bit rich, but I did resolve to write a short article this week explaining why fruit, sugar packed or not, is not evil! Continue reading "Not all sugars are created equal" »

Motivational quotes seem to flood the internet and especially social media. We didn't want to feel left out so here are some of our favourites

Continue reading "Motivational Quotes" »

How often do you get asked "So, what do you do?"

Probably more often than you think. Even if you don't actively promote your business (why not?) then just in the course of day to day activities you'll be asked this question time and time again. Perhaps when meeting someone for the first time socially, or chatting idly to a stranger at a bus stop.

Everytime you are asked this question it's an opportunity to promote your classes, be they fitness classes, dance classes or martial arts, and/or anything else you do for that matter.

Yet so often, we are caught out and mumble an unprepared, sometimes even flippant response; "Oh this and that", "I teach dance to people who will probably never be able to master walking!", "... (something) ... classes ... (mumble) ... fit". Even the more confidant replies will be limited to "Oh I teach dance", "I'm a martial arts instructor". Is that enough? Maybe, but you could still be missing out on potential class members by not opening up a bit. Continue reading "Say what you do in 15 seconds" »

Last week in "Stress (Part 1) - What is it? What causes it?" we looked at what stress is from a physical perspective and what the primary causes of it are. In Part 2 we'll look at the effects of stress on our health and more importantly what we can do to manage it when it does occur. Continue reading "Stress (Part 2) - What are the effects? What to..." »

In 2012 it was estimated that work related stress cost the UK economy over 6 billion. In addition to that, further billions are spent on stress related disease through the NHS and further working days are lost to non work related stress. But other than a generalised "stressed out" feeling, what is "STRESS"? Continue reading "Stress (Part 1) - What is it? What causes it?" »

Whether running dance classes, martial arts classes or fitness classes, a class instructor needs to possess the following qualities. Most instructors do, or at least most of them, and all of us are stronger in some and weaker in others so it never hurts to be reminded.

Continue reading "12 Essential Qualities For A Class Instructor" »

Put some of the following tips into action and you'll not only see more people coming back each week to your classes but you'll likely see a few new members as word spreads as well!

Most of the following are in no particular order, but I'm going to start with THE MOST IMPORTANT one first as so often it's overlooked in larger classes, especially the ones run by the bigger gym chains...

Continue reading "10 Tips To Keep Your Class Members Coming Back" »