Nick Mitchell's Ultimate Performance

Raw Personal Training Talent – Is It Enough?

Nick — Sun, 12 May 2013 09:08:31 +0000

Raw potential and talent will always help, but it will only ever get you so far. At UP Hong Kong we aim to help every client, whatever their goal, to fulfill their full potential. We don’t do this by being “jack of all trades” rather we have specialists in a range of disciplines and with an Read more . . .

Paleo Diets – How Paleo Are You?

Nick — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:10:43 +0000

Paleo Evolved One of the most loved and most misunderstood concepts within the world of nutrition is that of the “Paleo Diet”. The majority of the general population will not have even heard of the term “Paleo”, yet others will claim to be “Strict Paleo” or follow “Paleo plus dairy” Read more . . .

Eating For Fat Loss

Nick — Wed, 01 May 2013 06:13:43 +0000

Here are a few quick tips on the much discussed concept of "eating for fat loss". I personally get very frustrated with the plethora of “eating for fat loss” questions that our personal training page is inundated with on an almost daily basis. The confusion that has been sown by various disparate, Read more . . .

Hong Kong Personal Training Results!

Nick — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:00:41 +0000

Results are everything in personal training. If results do not matter then you may as well go exercising in the park with your friend / neighbour and break a little sweat and have a laugh. So whilst there is a role for the personal trainer as “entertrainer” (because anything that helps to get the Read more . . .

Keep It Simple, Stupid; Carb Back-Loading & Other Ideas

Nick — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:22:35 +0000

The merits of keeping nutritional advice simple, even when dealing with arguably complicated hot potatoes like carb back-loading, are massively underestimated. We seem to live in an internet dominated world where so-called "nutritional consultants" spout vitriol and bile at anything they disagree with, Read more . . .

Personal Training Hong Kong – A Chat With Kenneth Lo

Nick — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:44:54 +0000

Opening UP Hong Kong is of course a tremendously exciting venture, we're not exactly a multi-national conglomerate so it means getting my own hands dirty and really getting stuck into a wildly different culture and community. Yet the most rewarding aspect of expanding UP neither comes from public praise Read more . . .

UP Hong Kong – a sneak peak before personal training in Hong Kong changes forever!

Nick — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:21:26 +0000

I know, a bit of a bold title this one - a sneak peak before personal training in Hong Kong changes forever!". I'm not really quite so bigheaded and I just wanted a catchy title. However, in my defence, with hindsight it would appear that UP City and UP Mayfair have contributed to a change in the Read more . . .

Hong Kong Personal Trainers

Nick — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:16:19 +0000

We are about one month away from opening UP Hong Kong, our first gym outside of the UK and quite possibly one of the first genuine international ventures of any personal training business in the world. The question that seems to have been on a lot of people’s lips lately, is “why Hong Kong?”. There Read more . . .

Announcing The New UP Hong Kong Personal Training Gym!

Nick — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:44:37 +0000

It has been both a blessing and a curse in my life that I’m one of those people who always wants to be pushing forward. As soon as I feel the grass starting to grow under my feet I get a bit itchy and uncomfortable. God alone knows how I will be able to keep my kids balanced and happy and taking Read more . . .

The Best Personal Trainers Practice What They Preach!

Nick — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:11:27 +0000

The best personal trainers practice what they preach!! Here's a snapshot of just a few of the UP Personal Training Team, amazingly enough this is less than half of the guys who can turn up in true cover model shape when they want to. Whilst we would be the first to admit that being jacked / Read more . . .