The long shadow of the new year has come and gone and while some who began the year with best intentions have fallen to the wayside there is a very visible majority in the trenches hitting their stride. But there is something quite peculiar happening in fitness facilities all around ...

If you are familiar with this series of articles you will know that it’s all about taking a long view, being strategic and realistic with your goals and approach. Some key assumptions at this point is that you have already fulfilled the two first major criteria insofar as you have ...

Humans are a peculiar species particularly where physical activity, nutrition and lifestyle changes are concerned. All of a sudden we begin to think in absolutes and become overnight fitness extremists. Extremism however is often quite dangerous. From one end of the spectrum (inactivity, poor nutrition and ill health) we look ...

With regards nutrition if you have decided to make a positive lifestyle change and have decided that the vehicle for this change is something that meets the following criteria: 1 – Starts with ‘The‘ 2 – Has a middle word. 3 – Ends in the word ‘Diet‘ (The _______ Diet) ...

There are three options here. To highlight them lets make someone up to use as an example and call him ‘Person X’ . Person X is grown man who has been training for a few years and can squat 100kg. A) The first option available to Person X is to ...

In no particular order of preference here are six things that I have done in the past few years or so that have drastically improved the quality of my training and day to day life…. 1 – Stop relying on pre-workout supplements. Yes, I still drink coffee, but even at ...

Success stories in health and fitness begin long before physical activity commences, before the first big healthy shop of the year, before the new gym gear is purchased and before a choice is made about how and where this change is going to occur. Success begins with a decision to ...

The metrics of success One of my clients came to the end of a twelve week training block recently. I asked her how she felt about the months of effort she had put in and she said that while she really enjoyed it she was a little disappointed that she ...

The single most important variable in any training programme is you. Let’s make some broad assumptions. You more than likely have two arms, two legs, a head and a torso and want a combination of leaner, fitter, healthier, happier, stronger, faster, to be in less pain and so on. Let’s ...

Before getting into the specifics of things like exercise selection, nutritional strategies and goal setting it would be wise to have an idea what the entire process looks like from start to finish. Chances are you have created an image in your head of the perfect you. We have already ...