Author Archives: Morpheus

About Morpheus

Morpheus is a team of health and fitness professionals comprising of personal trainers, physiotherapists, sports massage therapists, pilates teachers and nutritionists. We are based in central London at our private gyms and personal training studios in Mayfair, Marylebone, Tower Hill, Piccadilly, and Waterloo. We also design and fit out private, residential and hotel gyms with modern functional fitness equipment.

New Flooring at Mayfair Gym

To improve our clients’ personal training and gym experience we have recently replaced the entire floor at the gym in Mayfair with a modern wooden flooring that as well as being aesthetically pleasing offers excellent grip for functional fitness training. … Continue reading

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A Healthy Body Means a Healthy Mind (Brain)

There is plenty of information in the public domain on the benefits of a regular exercise programme to enhance our physical wellbeing and reduce the likelihood of obesity and prevent diseases such as cancer and diabetes. The internet is awash … Continue reading

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A Troubled Heart for all Your Trouble

The message has been well-publicised in all media channels with increasing regularity  that exercise is good for you. Move your body, whether that be in the gym pushing weights or playing football or hockey on a Saturday morning with your local … Continue reading

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Diet, Nutrition, Healthy Eating and Weight Loss – A Perspective

As a personal training company we aim to educate and encourage our clients to adopt behavioural changes that will lead them to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Part of our approach focuses on the diet and nutrition that each of our … Continue reading

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Recent Fitness Studies and Implications for Exercise Training

  There’s enough publicity in the media about the benefits of exercise and leading a healthy lifestyle that very few people can have escaped the mountain of evidence, anecdotal and scientific, to indicate that a more active lifestyle leads to … Continue reading

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New Gym Equipment at Personal Training Gym in Piccadilly

As part of the ongoing updating of gym equipment at our personal training sites we are pleased to announce that we have recently taken delivery of 4 new Technogym Upright Bikes at the personal training gym in Piccadilly. The bikes … Continue reading

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Home Gym Design

Home Gym Design in Kensington The final stage of our latest home gym design project has just been completed. This week has seen the delivery and installation of all the home gym equipment ensuring the gym is up and running … Continue reading

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Weight Training for Older Adults

Much has been written about the benefits of weight training programs and how they assist in the creation of lean muscle tissue and the subsequent positive effects on the body’s metabolic rate, function and structure. Health and Fitness magazine covers … Continue reading

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Kettlebell Training London

This week’s Blogpost is by Nat Pero, Head personal trainer at Morpheus who is very much an enthusiast of Kettlebell training, the training tool that has rapidly become the new accessory of nearly every personal trainer in London.  In this … Continue reading

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Exercise and Pregnancy – Part 2

Exercising during pregnancy has become increasingly popular due to the large amounts of research (see part 1 of this post) that suggests that  exercising throughout pregnancy is beneficial to both mother and unborn child.   However, the research begs the … Continue reading

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