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Free Fitness Checklist
To get the best results for your body and your health, you need to focus on 5 key factors:FoodDrinkExerciseActivitySleep To help you to master each of these, we’ve developed this really useful Free Fitness Checklist to give you the best chance of success....
Mind before matter
Few of my blog posts concern the topics of nutrition and training. Why? Simply put, it’s the concept of mindset which is what most people need to address first. Workouts and training can then be followed, and guidance can be applied to eating and drinking...
How to guarantee results
Accountability is tough and more and more people avoid it at all costs. The flip side is that being accountable is also the secret recipe between success and failure. Follow our five steps to stepping out of your comfort zone and into the world where...
How to overcome sleep issues
I put a message out to most clients a couple of days ago and did the same on social media asking the following: ‘If you could change one thing currently during this lockdown period which would improve your health or fitness, what would it be?’ The response...
Benefits of online personal training
Why are we so scared of COVID-19 shortening our lives but not scared of the impact of inactivity? Online personal training could be the health boost that stretches far beyond the next few months. The lockdown has opened up new ways to keep sane. From...
Spinal mobility routine
We know that being at home more and sitting at desks that aren’t optimally positioned for posture is having a negative impact on your back health. Having a sore back can play havoc on your day-to-day movements and even your sleep. Put frankly, it can make...
The importance of making workouts fun during the Coronavirus pandemic
During this lockdown period, life may be in danger of getting a little monotonous. The same living and working environment and limited time for free movement. The excitement of watching a boxset may be subsiding a touch and the initial novelty factor of a...
Insulin resistance: The secret behind getting fat
I’ve written a huge number of blogs over the last six years. A minimum of one per month in fact. I do think that this is my most important one. It discusses insulin, insulin resistance, it’s impact on health and how this can be positively changed. Without...
Basic guide to resistance training
The composition of repetitions, sets, resistance and exercises are created to provide a volume of work that a muscle must undertake. Now, importantly this composition can be manipulated for different desired outcomes. This outcome may be strength, size,...
How to create sustainable habits
January is inevitably the time of year where you seek to make new habits that will change the way you look or feel. It could be plans to eat healthier or a particular style of diet. It could be a new exercise regimen, getting more sleep, enjoying greater...
Is endurance training boring or is it just difficult?
I write this blog on the verge of completing my sixth marathon. That’s not just six runs of 42km. It is six batches of four months of long-distance running, day after day, week after week. So, when the inevitable excuse of why people don’t...
Will avoiding carbs at night help with weight loss?
Read any magazine or listen to someone in a friendship circle and they will swear that ditching the carbs before night-fall was the one guaranteed secret to their weight loss! So will not eating carbs after 6pm work for you? No...