Emma Skeldon - Personal Training

Dress like Barbie, 💗 train like a beast 💪🏻

Only 33 days to go until I join Andrew Steel and the North Lanarkshire Munro Baggers in climbing Derry Cairngorm for the WaterAid Munro Challenge 🥾⛰️

Training is going well, with myself, Cooper 🐾, and Andrew Stevenson climbing Ben Wyvis on Friday on our way up to meet Aurelia Praduń, and together we climbed the mighty Conival and Ben More Assynt, followed by Ben Klibreck for Aurelia's birthday in what can only be described as an absolute BOGFEST 😅

WE NEED YOUR HELP! 🙏
North Lanarkshire Munro Baggers are on a mission to raise funds for WaterAid's crucial projects, providing clean water, decent toilets, and good hygiene to communities in Rwanda.

If you're able to support our cause, please consider donating to our team via the link below:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/nlmbwac2024

Every contribution, big or small, makes a significant impact! Thank you for your generosity and support!
A massive thank you to all those that have supported the team's effort so far, we appreciate it enormously.

Without stimulus, you will not see progress. Without pushing your body to the limit, you will not progress. Give your body a reason. Give it time. Stay consistent.

True failure of a set means NOT taking breaks mid-set. Reset and brace ONLY. If you are breaking your sets up, you are surpassing failure and not actually hitting the true point of failure, and thus can't truly grow.

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Hear me out...

If your main goal is to better your cardiovascular health, or you are training for a specific sport/event which heavily relies on cardio, you SHOULD train cardio before lifting weights in your session.

If, however, you are training to change your body composition, or to gain strength, you should lift BEFORE your main CV activity.

The order in which you train each portion of your workout is determined by your goal. Put simply, use your energy wisely in order to reach your own specific goals.

For any help or advice, just grab me or drop me a DM 👍

"The best view comes after the hardest climb"

After nearly 5 years at PureGym Livingston, I have made the decision to move on. I learned so much during my time at PG Livi. Not just about fitness, and personal training, but about myself as well.

I've done things I never thought I could have done. I've had the opportunity to help people discover the strength they have - not just physically, but the inner strength they never knew they had. And I will forever be grateful to each and every one of you guys who made my time here so damn awesome.

But change is good. Change is positive. And change is necessary for me to grow as a trainer.

From February, I will be based in , where I will be teaching classes, and hosting PT sessions, and I absolutely cannot wait to see where this new opportunity takes me.

👀 stay tuned for the big news... 🥁

MYTH BUSTED

A recent review on the popular “anabolic window” theory by exercise nutrition researchers Brad Schoenfeld and Alan Aragon concluded that nutrient timing is more of a broad door than it is a narrow window.

It takes time for food to be digested, absorbed and used, so some of the protein you ate at lunch may still be circulating in your bloodstream at dinnertime. Immediate post-workout feeding is probably important if you did a fasted workout, but if you ate some carbs and protein beforehand or if you train later in the day after having eaten several meals, you’re going to be OK.

You won't always feel like training. You won't always have the motivation to eat right. You won't always have a good workout.

When all else fails, stay consistent. No matter what, show up and give it your best. That's often the difference between seeing progress and not.