Darcy Fitness

Monday Motivation

Yes, summer is here despite the grey sky and damp weather. The big coat came out again over the weekend 🤦🏿‍♂️

Motivation isn't something that magically appears on sunny days. It's built through the small decisions you make when conditions aren't perfect.

As you plan your week ahead, don't forget to look after your body too. Tight muscles, aches, and accumulated stress can all make it harder to perform at your best. Self care should never be neglected.

A sports massage can help you recover, move better and improve sports performance.

Make this week count. Stay consistent, stay positive, and keep moving forward.

Appointments are available this week. Use the contact information below to book.

We have spaces available on our Monday 7am Hybrid group personal training session

Our Hybrid group personal training combines strength training with stamina-based conditioning for a balanced, results driven workout. You will move through a mix of weighted exercises, functional movements, and endurance intervals designed to increase overall fitness, boost cardiovascular capacity, and develop total- body strength. Perfect for anyone wanting to get stronger fitter and more resilient

To book https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/7700

Day finished in the Darcy Fitness Studio now it time for my own training on the track with Barrow runners

It’s hot so a second torqfitnessFitness hydration drink for in between reps to stay hydrated and fuelling my track session with a Torq energy gel with natural caffeine guarana for that extra kick and focus

We sell Torq products in the studio and many of our running clients use them

Running is about 4 key elements

Running
Strength and Conditioning
Nutrition
Recovery

We need all of these to train and perform at our optimum

Runners we have something very unique for you

The Darcy Fitness Performance Collective now has everything you need to achieve your optimum performance as we welcome running coach Paramore Ian of Runner Bean Coaching to join our team.

To perform your optimum at running there are 4 key components

Your running training program specific to your goals our experienced coach Ian Paramore will create you bespoke training programs

Nutrition plays a major part of your training to ensure you maintain health, fuel correctly for training and recovery, along with ensuring there is a race fuel strategy. Our very experienced dietitian and sports nutritionists Kristian Bravin will work with you to create your nutrition plan to ensure optimum health and performance

Strength, conditioning and performance fitness is an integral part of your training program to help improve your strength, fitness and performance whilst reducing the risk of injuries our experienced personal trainer and performance coach Bridie will create you plans of runners specific exercises to improve your performance and reduce risk of injuries and you can choose one to one or small group training.

Recovery is important to and our sports massage therapist GeneRate Sports Massage Therapy can provide you with regular maintenance massage and pre/post race massage.

An additional part of our recovery services is our performance flow yoga to help improve flexibility and relax the mind from the hard training programs. Our yoga instructorHayley Thorne Chester Happy Pause Yoga will guide you through the flow to help you feel more flexible and relaxed in mind

Please add runner to the comments for more details

A massive well done to client Alison for her park run PB at the weekend

Alison has been a long term loyal client for around 7 years, she has one to one training each weeks and attends our group training Empowered Woman - weights for women to help improve her strength and muscle mass which is highly important for ladies and will help your sporting performance

Well done Alison great running

A massive well done to our client Rebecca running a PB at Cheshire Half marathon at the weekend

Rebecca has been having a one to one personal training session each week, plus attending our runners specific groups training sessions each week.

As part of her personal training we devised a plan to help her achieve the goal of a pb, this also included nutrition and we practiced strategies of taking on fuel during long runs and daily hydration to ensure Rebecca was fully prepared for race day

The community of Darcy Fitness Runners continues to grow and I see this each week in the running group training and our community what’s app groups

Super proud of Rebecca and looking forward to helping her with new goals.