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09.07.20
5 Ways to stay fit after 50
Staying fit after 50 can be tricky, but then attaining fitness and maintaining it needs to be wo…
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07.21.20
The 5 Health Related Components of Fitness – Part 2
In part 1 of this article we looked at the cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, and mus…
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06.01.20
The 5 Health Related Components of Fitness – Part 1
There are 5 key health related components of fitness, and it’s important to understand what "f…
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04.21.20
Get Creative to keep Exercising During a Global Pandemic
If you’re the type of person who has a workout routine, you may have a regular time and place …
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04.12.20
Covid – 19 – A World Changing Virus
Our world has changed dramatically in a very short time. Our ‘normal’ lives have b…
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03.17.20
5 Workout Mistakes to Avoid when you’re trying to Lose Weight
Sometimes, even the most committed exercisers find it difficult to lose weight, and the whole pr…
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02.14.20
Tips to Maintain Your Exercise Habit this Year – Part 2
In Part 1, I looked at the elements necessary to create an exercise habit, and here I’ll delve…
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02.04.20
Tips to Maintain Your Exercise Habit this Year – Part 1
You may have made fitness resolutions for the year ahead, and we often focus on the motivation n…
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01.05.20
How to Learn to Love Exercise in 2020
Learning to love exercise sounds easy doesn't it, and for many it is, but for some, it will be a…
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12.24.19
4 Tips for Staying Fit and Healthy at Christmas
Christmas time should be enjoyed in whatever way we choose. If we’re lucky enough to share it …
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11.28.19
Body Composition – the Ratio of Fat to Lean Mass.
Body composition is an important factor in overall health, and this can sometimes be forgotten i…
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11.04.19
Goodbye Summer – Time for a Change
Autumn is here, and although it’s always sad to have to say goodbye to the long days of Summer…
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10.07.19
Why the First 5 Minutes Can Be the Hardest Part 2
In Part 1, I looked at the physiological reasons why the first 5 minutes of exercise c…
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09.26.19
Why the First 5 Minutes Can Be the Hardest Part 1
The first 5 minutes of exercise are a physiological marvel, whether you're new to exer…
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08.29.19
Emotional Intelligence – A Business Imperative
Earlier this week, I read an article about Emotional Intelligence and the importance of its appl…
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08.11.19
Get Ready……..Switch on the After Burners!
How do we switch on the after burners in our workouts? What do I even mean by the after burners?…
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07.18.19
Waist Not Want Not
Watch Your Waist Health experts use waist circumference to screen patients for poss…
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06.21.19
Rowing – Superhuman Fitness
Treadmills and exercise bikes have long been features of both commercial and home gyms, but I ha…
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06.02.19
Ambivalence is a Normal Part of Behavioural Change
Ambivalence refers to having mixed feelings about something and is a normal part of trying to ma…
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04.09.19
What is the F.I.T.T Principle?
The F.I.T.T acronym stands for Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type of exercise. These…
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03.19.19
What is the Motivation to Exercise? – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article I looked at motivation, and how it can vary from person to person. Giv…
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02.28.19
What is the Motivation to Exercise? – Part 1
Maintaining the motivation to keep exercising can be hard, but sometimes the hardest part is act…
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01.23.19
Change Your Life, Change Your Body
We often approach weight loss wanting to change our bodies, and we know that we need to make cha…
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01.10.19
Here Comes 2019! Resolutions – Part 2
Here in Part 2 of the article looking at new year goals and resolutions, are another 5 strategie…
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01.04.19
Here Comes 2019! Resolutions – Part 1
After a whirlwind of holiday parties and family get togethers, the month of January can feel a b…
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12.04.18
Spot Reduction – What is the Truth?
Spot reduction is the very seductive belief that by doing specific exercises fat can be removed …
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11.26.18
A Winter’s Tale – How to Stay Motivated in Winter
In the winter months it’s very easy to fall out of your summer exercise routine. Getting ou…
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11.08.18
Tower Running
Tower running - 2 words that simultaneously terrify and intrigue me. What a challenge, what an a…
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10.24.18
What it means to be Fit
Being fit means different things to different people. For some, it’s the ability to run long d…
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10.05.18
Wellbeing – Essential for Life
“General wellbeing isn’t about expecting something – it takes discipline”. That is a gre…
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09.28.18
Running for 15 Minutes – Packs a Real Punch
So many people seem to be running ever longer distances and taking on epic adventure races these…
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08.23.18
Sleep – An Important Commodity
Sleep can give you energy; it repairs muscles, balances hormones, fuels your workout, and gets y…
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08.07.18
Fitness Over the Age of 50 – It’s there for the taking!
For many people over 50, achieving or maintaining fitness is a challenge – perhaps more of a c…
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07.27.18
Friluftsliv – The joy of Outdoor Life
Friluftsliv, now there’s a Scandinavian word to conjure with. It means ‘free air life’, an…
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07.16.18
“They Think it’s All Over……It is Now”
It’s over and out from the World Cup 2018, and what a football tournament it was for England -…
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07.09.18
How’s the 2nd Half of Your Year Looking?
It's hard to believe that we are over half way through 2018. At the weekend I reali…
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06.27.18
Top Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article I looked at 5 of the top reasons we don’t get the weight loss …
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06.12.18
Top Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight – Part 1
If you've ever struggled with exercise and weight loss, you'll know that it can be frustrating a…
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05.29.18
4 Keys to Successful Weight Loss – Part 2
In Part 2 of this article, I look at 2 more very important keys to steady weight loss …
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05.17.18
4 Keys to Successful Weightloss – Part 1
I’ve written about weight loss many times before, and it can seem so simple. It’s even simpl…
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05.01.18
What does Summer mean to You?
Summer…..is it the time of year when you start to focus a bit more on what you eat a…
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04.09.18
Why Women Should Lift Weights
Lifting weights has been an initial concern for some of my female clients over the years. Thin…
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03.27.18
What is the Best Time to Exercise?
Is there a best time of day to exercise? Two of the top reasons people give for not exercising reg…
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03.09.18
Keep Going – Achieve Your Goals
When we set out to achieve our fitness goals it takes time – how much time will depend on the …
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02.23.18
A Prescription for Reducing Stress………Exercise
Stress is an ever-present factor of modern life, and our bodies are adapted to deal with it, as …
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02.16.18
Get Ready……Get Set……Go Running!
As with many physical activities, running is a bit like marmite, you either love it or hate it. …
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02.01.18
Your Starter for 10 – The Warm Up
The transition from being sedentary to active is a physiological marvel. Whether new to exercise…
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01.16.18
Before and After – Feel the Transformation
Before and After - The Transformation We’ve all seen before and after pictures; for example…
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01.02.18
Take A Break
Taking A Break From Exercise Many of us are worried about taking a break from exerc…
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12.22.17
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”
It’s nearly Christmas 😊 The Advent calendar with chocolates behind the doors is nearly empt…
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11.29.17
How Much Exercise Do You Really Need to Lose Weight?
An Exercise Plan for Weight Loss is very Doable. In this final short article in the ‘how mu…
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11.25.17
How Much Exercise Do You Really Need to Lose Weight?
In this 3rd, and penultimate, short article of the ‘how much exercise do you really need to …
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11.21.17
How Much Exercise Do You Really Need to Lose Weight?
In this 2nd article of the ‘how much exercise do you really need to lose weight?’ series, we…
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11.20.17
How Much Exercise do you really need to Lose Weight?
How Much Time do you need to spend Exercising? When we’re trying to lose weight, the most e…
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11.13.17
Healthy Movement Matters – Part 3
In Part 3 of Healthy Movement Matters, I ask ‘How Can we move Be…
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11.01.17
Nutrition – An Essential Element of Fitness
Nutrition - Essential for Health and Fitness …
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10.23.17
Healthy Movement Matters – Part 2
Part 1 of this article started to look at the many benefits of healthy movement. Here in Part 2,…
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09.25.17
Healthy Movement Matters – It’s not about getting a gym body
Healthy movement matters; it goes beyond an aesthetic view of 'perfection' pedalled by the media. Of…
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09.18.17
3 Ways to Make your Workout into a Habit – Part 2
In Part 1, I looked at the foundations for making a solid and sustainable exercise habit. In Par…
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08.14.17
They Think It’s all Over…….It is now
The World Athletics Championships in London were hugely entertaining. There were thrills, spi…
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08.07.17
3 Ways to Make your Workout into a Habit – Part 1
When it comes to exercise, we often focus on motivation rather than habit. We think of getting m…
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07.28.17
6 Scientific Principles that lead to Fitness – Part 2
Scientific Principles for Fitness In the study of exercise science, there are universally a…
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07.21.17
6 Scientific Principles that lead to Fitness – Part 1
In the study of exercise science, there are several universally accepted training principles tha…
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07.10.17
Resilience is a Skill
The ability to develop resilience is one of the keys to a happy and successful life. Our attitud…
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06.30.17
Is a New Diet the Solution to an Old Diet that Isn’t Working? Part 2
In Part 1, I looked at how slavishly following the rules of one diet after another wit…
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06.23.17
Is a New Diet the Solution to an Old Diet that Isn’t Working? Part 1
The last diet you tried didn’t go well, and so you commit to trying another one, the…
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06.08.17
Priceless Lessons I Learned When I Became a Personal Trainer
Over the years, I’ve asked fellow fitness professionals how working in the industry …
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06.01.17
The ‘Fab 4’ Exercises for Weight Loss, Toning and Fitness
What do you want from your workouts? Probably something that's short, effective, easy to follow…
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05.12.17
Don’t Let Your Mindset Hold You Back
Without even realising it, most of us have a set of beliefs about what we think we’re capable …
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04.25.17
Trainer Train Thyself – My 8 Week Challenge
As a Personal Trainer, I spend my life coaching and training fitness, health, and wellbeing, and…
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04.04.17
Get Your Body Ready for Spring – Part 2
In Part 1 of how to get your body ready for Spring I started to look at long term stra…
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03.22.17
Get Your Body Ready for Spring – Part 1
Time passes so quickly, and the change of seasons can take us by surprise. Winter seems to last …
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03.14.17
What Does a Balanced Workout Look Like
A balanced workout should include a combination of three types of exercise for weight loss. A…
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02.28.17
No Time For Exercise?
When it comes to excuses for getting out of doing something, "I don't have time" is a favourite.…
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02.14.17
What do we want?
It’s important to know what we want in order to put together a road map for how to g…
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01.27.17
Is it Possible to do Too Much Exercise?
Is it possible to do too much exercise? Yes, and, particularly at the start of a fitness journey…
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01.18.17
Stop Yo-Yo Exercising – Here’s How
Yo-Yo exercising can have a negative effect on both body and mind. Most of us would probably…
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01.12.17
9 Reasons to Stop Dieting
There are many reasons why most diets don't work over the long term, and even more reasons to gi…
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12.29.16
The Power of Reflection
Reflection is a powerful tool and, as we near the end of the year and are busy planning for 2017…
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12.12.16
‘Tis the Season To Be Jolly
It’s definitely the season to be jolly…….Christmas Parties, dinners, l…
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12.01.16
“Santa Claus is coming to town”
Streets across the land are lit up and, in less than a month, Santa will be coming to town. I…
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11.24.16
Personal Trainer, Fitness Coach….what’s in a name?
My qualification states that I’m a Personal Trainer, and it means that I have successfully com…
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11.14.16
Stress and Weight Gain – Make Time to Kick Back
There is a proven link between stress and weight gain, and so if your goals are weight loss, or …
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11.03.16
Emotional Eating – Know Your When, What and Why
Emotional eating is part of the human condition and, even the most disciplined and health consci…
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10.28.16
What is a Workout?
What does the word ‘workout’ make you think of?........Perhaps the onerous, demanding, time …
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10.21.16
‘The Time is Now’
‘The Time is Now’……it’s the tag line for my business, and a call to action. It was…
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10.12.16
Body Image – How Do you See Yourself?
How do you feel when you look at your body? Most of us will see what we think of as our imperfec…
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10.04.16
Get Ready For Autumn Fitness
Autumn is officially here and, as John Keats said so eloquently, it’s “the season of mists a…
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09.22.16
7 Great Ways to Lose Weight Over 40
Losing weight isn’t easy for anyone but, as we age, losing, or trying to maintain weight, can …
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09.06.16
Back to School – Re-Evaluate and Review
The kids are going back to school, we’re into the last 4 months of the year, and it’s a good…
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08.10.16
Olympic Gladiators, I Salute you !
The world’s finest Gladiators are assembled, and the games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio are wel…
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08.03.16
“It does exactly what it says on the tin”
“It does exactly what it says on the tin” is a fantastic strap line, and I've used it many t…
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07.26.16
“No Pain, No Gain” and other Fitness Myths
Everyone has heard the phrase ‘no pain, no gain’, not something I subscribe to and, quite ap…
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07.19.16
The 5K season is here, so lace up, get outside and run!
The 5K race distance is sometimes snubbed in the long-distance running world, but it packs a pow…
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07.12.16
A Beach Body isn’t just for Summer……..it’s for life
I don’t believe in the media promoted ‘beach body’ stereotype which generally refers…
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07.05.16
A Time for Recalibration
Our ‘Brexit’ vote made me think of a Monty Python sketch in ‘The Life of Brian’ when the…
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06.28.16
Ctrl-Alt-Del – The Stress Re-Boot
Ctrl-alt-del can be a real life saver. My pesky computer slows down or freezes; I can’t access…
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06.21.16
Mindfulness – There’s a word to conjure with
Mindfulness is a word used in connection with the pursuit of happiness and stress redu…
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06.14.16
Don’t Let the Past Hold You Back
My focus is always in the present and the future, not the past. I echo that in the tag line for …
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06.07.16
Believe in Yourself and you will Achieve
Is it really true that if you believe in yourself, you can achieve? In some ways it sounds like…
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06.01.16
BMI – What is it, and what is it’s value?
BMI is a commonly used method for determining a healthy body weight which uses a calculation bas…
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05.10.16
Get to the Core
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word ‘core’ as “the central or most important pa…
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05.06.16
To employ a Personal Trainer or not, that is the question
Most people would benefit from a Personal Trainer/Fitness Coach, particularly on a one to one ba…
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04.26.16
Exercise – An Elixir of Youth?
Wouldn’t it be great if there really was an elixir of youth; we’d all be tempted to drink fr…
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04.19.16
Get Your Synapses ‘Snapping’ – Exercise Boots Brain Power
Okay, synapses in the brain don’t actually ‘snap’, that’s just my alliteration :-) Neuro…
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04.12.16
Motivation, Willpower and Decisions…….Reduce the Exhaustion
Psychologists studying mental discipline discovered a phenomenon they called decision fatigue - appa…
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04.05.16
Functional Fitness – A Life Without Limits
I’m all about the functional fitness of our bodies, not just how they look - after a…
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03.31.16
‘Quick Fix’ – I Want It Now
In our fast paced world, we’re lured by a quick fix at every turn. We all want to see results…
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03.22.16
Spring Has Sprung
Spring is on its way, and we can look forward to the light returning to the sky, and the warmth …
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03.15.16
Too Much Information? – How Do You Exercise?
How you decide to exercise depends a lot on your personality. For some people it’…
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03.08.16
The Power Of Positivity
Positivity in all aspects of our lives is so important, but we all have a little voice in our he…
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02.23.16
One for the Boys – Men’s Health
I recently read an article relating to men’s health which was based on ongoing research by Profess…
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02.16.16
One for the Girls – Using Weights
Many of my female clients were worried about using any sort of weight in their exercise programmes. …
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02.12.16
Fast, but not furious – interval Training
Interval training does what it says on the tin, and the activity you choose to do in the intervals i…
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02.09.16
It’s the ‘Month of Lurve’
We all know that it’s the month of lurve because of Valentine’s Day – really, I'd like every…
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02.06.16
Personal Trainer……..what does that mean?
What does a Personal Trainer look like?........................ Erm……….not ne…
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02.01.16
Here’s to You! – Celebrate Your Achievements
Don’t forget to celebrate every single one of your achievements. It’s so easy to get caught up i…
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01.29.16
Go ‘Old School’ ……….Skipping
I’m a huge fan of skipping because if it's all I have time for then it's a fabulously simple an…
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01.26.16
‘The Easy Life’
‘The easy life’ is a phrase that’s bound to mean different things to different people. But ‘…
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01.22.16
Winter Training – Get Outside
It doesn’t always seem appealing to lace up and go outside when there’s a gale blowing and the r…
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01.18.16
Banish the Winter Blues & Restore Balance
It’s amazing what a workout can do………it can clear the mind and restore its balance. Exerc…
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01.15.16
Walk The Walk
So, in "Getting stuck in & sticking to it" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/walk-sue-fawcett we p…
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01.10.16
Getting Stuck In and Sticking to It – Resolutions
At this time of year, we may have resolutions, and every good intention of carrying them out. We…
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01.05.16
“Ready, steady………Go!”
'New Year, New You’, a ‘fresh start’, ‘clean slate’ – there are so many well-worn cl…
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01.04.16
All I want for Christmas is…
……Crikey, where do I start?! Christmas can provide the perfect opportunity to ask for a prese…
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12.11.15
The Right Stuff – Part 2
In Part 1, I looked at what can hold us back from achieving our goals, and now I want to explore som…
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12.11.15
The Right Stuff – Part 1
Former professional basketball player turned successful businessman, Michael Jordan, once said that …
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11.27.15
Va-Va-Voom anyone?
This isn’t always the easiest time of year; days are getting shorter and during a working week tha…
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11.17.15
More Bang For Your Buck
That’s a phrase my clients are used to hearing, and its meaning is always the same – that the pa…
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11.17.15
It’s a Jungle out there
“I’m a Celebrity, get me out of here” is a guilty pleasure – there, I’ve said it. I have r…
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11.17.15
If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got
Making the decision to change your lifestyle, be more healthy, get fit, and get lean sounds easy…
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11.17.15
The Fat of the Land
Fat deposition in the body….that’s a phrase to conjure with. The fat in our bodies presents itse…
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11.17.15
Have you got time?
I heard a blast from the past this week ….. “Time (Clock of the Heart)” by Culture Club, a…
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09.16.15
Fitness After Injury: The Dos And Don’ts
There are few things worse than getting injured, especially when you’ve found a training flow. You…
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09.16.15
How To Eat, Workout And Be Happy
We all want to feel great. Although sometimes the thought of going to the gym or working out is too …