The pros and cons of working as a personal trainer
Hotcourses talks to fitness instructor and personal trainer Shamir Sidhu about the pros and cons of working as a personal trainer… Name:  Shamir Sidhu  Job title:  Personal Trainer Job description:  I help people from all walks of life to achieve their fitness goals Where do you work?  At the moment I work at LA Fitness Piccadilly. What vocational qualifications route did you take?  I have a diploma in Personal Training and also a diploma in Massage Therapy, both of which helped me to get my current job.  Are you doing what you wanted to do when...

Kitchen Confidence
Reignite your love affair with home cooking this year… From cheery Anthony Worrall Thompson to sultry Nigella Lawson, celebrity cooks are helping create a renaissance in home cooking. Interestingly, neither Anthony  nor Nigella trained as chefs, creating  their careers from a simple passion for good food. Our relationship with food is changing. There has been a slow shift away from ready-meal mania: between 1998 and 2002 the demand for ready meals rose by 29 per cent across Europe and 44 per cent in the UK alone. We now consider the amount of packaging...