Polaris Fitness Studios UK Ltd

13/12/2024

12/11/2024

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19/12/2023

Just a quick post with our festive opening hours for anyone who is around over the next couple of weeks, and would like to continue training during the festive period 💪

19/03/2023

Happy Mothers Day to ALL the mums out there, past, present and soon to be x

17/03/2023

🍀 Happy Saint Patricks Day 🍀

08/03/2023

Celebrating all of the incredible and strong women who we’ve had the pleasure to work with

25/12/2022

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas

24/12/2022

Quick post with our festive opening hours for those of you who are around to train over the next week or too 💪

23/06/2022

Great work from these lads yesterday, and a pleasure to host at the studio.

Looking forward to helping these guys prepare for next season 💪

19/05/2022

I’m often told by members that they were ‘naughty’ or ate something ‘bad’ on the weekend, and although it doesn’t sound like a big deal, the language we use when talking about food can have a big impact, so I though I’d share some thoughts on the subject….

Labelling food as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ can lead to the moralisation of food choices, implying that there is a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to eat.

At best this kind of BLACK AND WHITE THINKING is far too simplistic and can often lead to some real poor decision making.

It can result in shame, guilt after eating certain foods, and have a negative influence on your relationship with food and at worst can lead to disordered eating patterns. 😧

One thing I try my best to make clear with new members is that no such thing as a universally ‘good’ or ‘bad’ food.

Context matters, and every food has pros and cons. Every food can be more or less right for you, depending on the situation.

So instead of labelling food as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, we teach our members to assess choices based on a continuum of ‘better’ to ‘worse’.

We call this THINKING ON A CONTINUUM.

One of the tools we use to help teach our members to think on a continuum and to make better choices is the ‘Traffic Light System’, where we ask you to create YOUR OWN LIST of Red, Yellow and Green light foods to help build awareness, identify triggers and make better decisions.

‘Red light foods’ are those which you either dislike, don’t tolerate or digest well, that don’t support your goals or are unable to eat without going overboard

For example, my red light foods include take away pizza, ferrero roshers and pringles. I’m unable to enjoy them sensibly, and once I start, I can’t help but over eat these foods, so for this reason, I try not to eat to often.

‘Yellow light foods’ are those that you can eat, but need to be a little cautious. You’re able to eat them on certain occasions, but not all the time.

For me, alcohol would fall into this category, as I’m able to enjoy occasionally without going overboard, or having a negative impact on my health or body composition.

Another food that would come under this category would be cake, I’m happy to have a slice or two at birthday parties, but don’t really feel the need to eat cake at any other time.

‘Green light foods’ are foods that make you feel feel good. Foods you’re able to digest easily, support your goals and you can enjoy without feeling the need to over eat

I can’t stress enough that the aim of this traffic light system is not to label foods as ‘good’ or ‘bad’.

We don’t encourage you to avoid the red foods, or to only eat the green foods. There is no reason why you can’t include ‘red light’ foods as a part of a healthy diet.

In fact, intentionally including these can help prevent you from feeling deprived, and make overall healthy eating patterns more sustainable.

Instead, I’d like to encourage you to think of this as a way to help build awareness about which foods work best FOR YOU, and which ones don’t, so that you can make better more informed decisions going forwards 💪

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19/05/2022

I’m often told by members that they were ‘naughty’ or ate something ‘bad’ on the weekend, and although it doesn’t sound like a big deal, the language we use when talking about food can have a big impact, so I though I’d share some thoughts on the subject….

Labelling food as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ can lead to the moralisation of food choices, implying that there is a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to eat.

At best this kind of BLACK AND WHITE THINKING is far too simplistic and can often lead to some real poor decision making.

It can result in shame, guilt after eating certain foods, and have a negative influence on your relationship with food and at worst can lead to disordered eating patterns. 😧

One thing I try my best to make clear with new members is that no such thing as a universally ‘good’ or ‘bad’ food.

Context matters, and every food has pros and cons. Every food can be more or less right for you, depending on the situation.

So instead of labelling food as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, we teach our members to assess choices based on a continuum of ‘better’ to ‘worse’.

We call this THINKING ON A CONTINUUM.

One of the tools we use to help teach our members to think on a continuum and to make better choices is the ‘Traffic Light System’, where we ask you to create YOUR OWN LIST of Red, Yellow and Green light foods to help build awareness, identify triggers and make better decisions.

(See comment for description of red, yellow and green light foods)

I can’t stress enough that the aim of this traffic light system is not to label foods as ‘good’ or ‘bad’.

We don’t encourage you to avoid the red foods, or to only eat the green foods. There is no reason why you can’t include ‘red light’ foods as a part of a healthy diet.

In fact, intentionally including these can help prevent you from feeling deprived, and make overall healthy eating patterns more sustainable.

Instead, I’d like to encourage you to think of this as a way to help build awareness about which foods work best FOR YOU, and which ones don’t, so that you can make better more informed decisions going forwards 💪

11/05/2022

Having posted in a while so thought we’d share a quick time lapse video showing one of our members completing the following ‘Mixed Modal’ circuit at the end of her workout to help improve aerobic conditioning

10 Non Push Up Burpees
10 DB Cleans
20 Cal Air Bike

*record time and average pace on the air bike every round

EX*****ON

Complete 1 round every 4 minutes for 20 minutes, performing each round at a faster pace.

Every round aim to complete 20 cals going +1RPM faster than the previous round on the Air Bike

(Note: if you are unsure whether you are able to sustain an increased pace, maintain the same pace from the previous round)

INTENTION

Our intention here is to stay AEROBIC, meaning that every interval must be sustainable, repeatable and paced .

*Sustainable = you are able to hold that pace for the full duration of the interval

*Repeatable = You are able to sustain that same pace for every interval (or get incrementally faster with each interval)

27/03/2022

Happy Mothers Day to ALL the mothers out there, past, present and soon to be x

27/03/2022

Short clip of one of our members learning how to combine a squat with an overhead press.

One of our favourite combo exercises with tons of benefits

21/05/2021

Here’s a short clip of one of our members performing the ‘Half Kneeling Pulldown’ to build upper body pulling strength and motor control.

At Polaris Fitness we like working in this position for many reasons:

- It can help improve both hip mobility and stability
- it can help improve both trunk mobility stability
- it can help teach you to move your upper body without allowing your hips to compensate
- changing your position adds a different challenge to the upper body
- it adds variety to your workout

06/05/2021

Great work from .singh2705 back to pre lockdown strength and hitting a new PB on his trap bar deadlifts 💪

15/04/2021

This post is a little different from our usual posts, with today marking our 6 years since we first opened our doors.

First of all, we wanted to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone for making Polaris Fitness what it is.

Over the years, there have been many changes, when we first opened, in April 2015, we only did one to ones, then in 2016 we realised that we could help more people if we switched to a semi private model. Last year saw us transition into remote coaching, and 2021 we’re rolling out out hybrid model where members can train with us both face to face and remotely.

Although we may have made mistakes along the way, we hope that we’ve learned our lessons and that we’re now better than we ever have been, and will continue to improve as we grow.

Over six years we’ve upgraded the facility itself, improved our technical knowledge, grown as coaches, and with age now that we’re married and have young children feel we are in a position where we are better able to understand the struggles that our members face than we ever have been before.

But what still remains is our commitment to providing a safe facility, with a supportive and welcoming environment where our members can thrive.

None of this would have been possible without the continued support from our friends and family, and from our superstar members who really are the lifeblood of the studio, who we learn from everybody, and help us become better coaches, and more importantly better people

Thank you to everyone for making Polaris Fitness more than a gym!

12/04/2021

Really enjoyable morning of sessions, top work from everyone, great to be back 💪