My PT HUB Blog & Articles

Fitness and nutrition go hand in hand, which is why so many personal trainers now offer nutrition services alongside their training. But knowing how to create a workout program and knowing how to create a meal plan for clients are two very different skills. In this guide, we’ll cover why offering nutrition services is worth...

Creating meal plans sounds simple: calculate calories, split into macros, assign foods, done. In practice, most trainers either overcomplicate the process or oversimplify it, resulting in plans clients won’t follow. The difference between meal plans that transform clients and those that gather digital dust comes down to a systematic approach balancing science with sustainability. This...

While meat and fish are usually the go-to ingredients for a bodybuilder’s protein fix, more and more people are switching to meat free diets or introducing vegetarian recipes into their meal plans. As a personal trainer it’s important to know the best vegetarian protein sources for bodybuilding. To help you better support your personal training...

Become your healthiest self, physically and mentally, with Trainer and Nutrition Coach, Becca Gillen,  advocate for flexible dieting. Becca believes you should be able to eat chocolate and pizza while still maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Here, she explains how: “All you need is to understand WHY ‘unhealthy’ foods like pizza won’t make you fat, how...

How To Lose The Love Handles While Still Consuming Your Favourite Foods So we’ve all heard the phrase ‘If It Fits Your Macros or IIFYM’ and how it can help you build muscle, lose fat or simply maintain your physique while you enjoy a beer and pizza. How can you do it without your hard...

You hear a lot of trainers say “Abs are made in the kitchen” or “You can’t out train a bad diet”, but a lot of coaches find nutrition planning to be time consuming and stressful. Well say goodbye to countless hours spent creating un-needed PDF files & spreadsheets and hello to nutrition building with My PT Hub! My...

You hear people say ‘I want to lose weight and get toned.’ But weight loss and fat loss are not the same thing. Yes ‘off the shelf’ weight loss plans will make you shift scale weight – but it comes at the expense of muscle loss, low energy and compromised body physiology / internal health. Which...

When it comes to your clients achieving their fitness goals, nutrition plans plays a vital role in the process. For some, tracking everything their client consumes can be a tricky and long-winded process. Not with My PT Hub’s Nutrition Plans! About My PT Hub’s Nutrition Plans My PT Hub holds the largest verified nutrition database...

We all have that friend, family member or client who’s taking part in an endurance event who would love to get that ‘edge’ (and I’m not talking about a glass of vino before the event!). The market nowadays is a wash with different gels, bars and isotonic drinks to help keep you going for longer....

A massive subject that I can only simply touch upon as otherwise this blog post will be never-ending! Have you ever asked yourself what a calorie actually is? A calorie is a unit of energy and to keep things as simple as I can, when it comes to human consumption, we will only be looking...