Helpful hints and tips to keep you on track & your body lean, mean & clean

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Helpful hints and tips to keep you on track & your body lean, mean & clean

Unit-27 Online Coaching Academy

Unit-27 6 Week Santa Shred

We at Unit-27 have come to the reality that we won't be seeing many of you by the end of the year, but we are ok with that, because we believe it's time now to offer you the next best thing, by bringing Unit-27 TO YOU! We are launching a 6 week online coaching programme that boasts all the utensils in which you wish you could have on a fitness app such as the below: To ensure that we can provide you guys with the best service possible we are only accepting 10 Troopers on initially for the Six Week Santa Shred! The Academy was born out of a desire to get online coaching in the pockets of everyone who needs it and in true Unit-27 [...]

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5 top tips to get the most out of training at Unit-27!

One of the common mistakes keen trainees make when arriving on the Soi is thinking more is better. We understand you want to maximise your time here, but your training is only as good as your ability to recover from it. Remember during the workout is not when we are making progress, just creating the stimulus for progress to be made, it’s when we get outside the gym, we start the recovery progress and make the positive adaptions we’re looking for such as improved fitness, strength levels, muscle mass etc. From a calorie burning standpoint more classes will burn more calories initially however try to look at the week as a whole not an [...]

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Understanding Your Bmr Basal Metabolic Rate

Understanding Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

Understanding your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is important because it explains when generic scales are an important form of measurement and where they're not. Maybe you’re currently eating dinner, or sat in a coffee shop, or even 30,000 ft up above the rest of us, but wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, every living being on this planet as a Basal Metabolic Rate, which is referred to commonly as ‘BMR’. Your BMR is the amount of calories your body expends per day just literally living, carrying out its daily functions to survive, and this is important to understand due to knock on effect it has to the amount of calories [...]

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Carbohydrates When To Use Them For Weight Loss And Training Effectiveness

Carbohydrates For Fitness & Weight Loss

It’s a common theory that carbohydrates are the enemy, and the simplest form of editing your diet in order to achieve fat loss is to just lower the amount of carbohydrates in your diet. In reality, lowering the amount of carbs can help slightly with weight loss, but that depends heavily on how much you were or are consuming in the first place. First and foremost it’s very important to understand the role in which carbohydrates play in the overall performance of an individual. Their main responsibility is to provide the host consuming them with energy. They’re the body’s main source of fuel, needed for physical activity, brain [...]

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Stress And The Effects It Has On Fitness Training

Effects Of Stress

First and fore-most ask yourself a few questions and be completely honest with yourself: Are you stressed right now? Have you been stressed today? Would you say you lead a stress driven lifestyle? Now, a yes to any of the above spells problems, and you certainly need to read what’s below. If you answered all three with a yes honestly, then you certainly need to get reading, because you could be completely negating your physical efforts First and fore-most what is stress? Well, we actually have 2 types of stress, one being non-specific stress, and another being specific stress. Specific [...]

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Clean Healthy Dieting At Muscle Bar Phuket, Thailand

FAD Diets; Ketogenic, Paleo & Vegan.

In today’s fitness industry we often find ourselves locked in bewilderment due to presence of so many different diets presenting so many different benefits and essentially promising the healthiness and aesthetics that we all dream of. One could say that a lot of it comes down to the interpretation we have of each diet and sometimes if it simply just clicks in our heads and aligns with our views we will believe it without any scientific data to back it up. This piece of writing won’t attempt to convince you one diet is more promising than the other, nor will it try and deter you from one more than the other, it’s only going to l [...]

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Pricing & Packages

We have always worked very hard to keep our pricing system here at Unit 27 simple & inexpensive. If you want to do a single class or session, that is no problem, drop in anytime! But if you are interested in a more serious training program while you're in Phuket, Thailand, then check out our packages for fitness training, strength & conditioning, weight loss & body transformation goals, intelligently packaged all under the one plan.

If you haven't visited us at Unit 27 yet, then come and try us out. If you tell us at the end of your first visit that it was not at the standard you expected from a dedicated Strength & Conditioning gym here in Phuket, then we'll give you a full refund on the spot, no questions asked !!!! So, all you have to do is commit to a session, then be prepared to sweat a little!

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