Active Matters

After a successful 2012 season culminating in Sam Baxter being voted Amateur Triathlete of the Year at the 220 Magazine Awards, Team Freespeed Virgin Active were in great spirits heading into the new season. Three new athletes have been added to the team for 2013, with one more to come.

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Over the last 18 months there has been an explosion of high intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts on the fitness market. Although this training principle has been around a lot longer, I love the fact that the media attention has shone a light on exercise intensity and created some noise around it

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Iwan Thomas MBE is a former European & Commonwealth 400m Champion and still holds the British Record for the event. Now, more of a regular on our TV screens than on the track, Iwan is a keen runner and member of our Virgin Active Health Club in Southampton. Here, Iwan tells us what gets him going and his transition from professional athlete to master motivator.

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We were lucky enough to catch up with Iwan Thomas, former Olympian and the current British 400m Record Holder, who gave us the inside scoop on what gets him motivated and how he challenges himself in and out of the gym.

Although he told us right off the bat he couldn’t admit to most of the things that get him going (insert cheeky smile here).

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