I hear people saying all the time that they want to eat healthy, but they simply don’t know where to start. (“What should I eat? What are the correct portion sizes? / How many Calories calories are optimum? / What proportion of fat, protein & carbs are best?) This short article should tell you all […]
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Healthy Eating made simple
Healthy Eating made simple I hear people saying all the time that they want to eat healthy, but they simply don’t know where to start. (“What should I eat? What are the correct portion sizes? / How many Calories calories are optimum? / What proportion of fat, protein & carbs are best?) This short article […]
Carpe Diem: Seize the Day
In this Blog, I am sharing with you something very inspiring that was sent to me, written by Declan Coyle, inspired by the poet Seamus Heaney; Do you seize the day, or does the day seize you? Do you get up and get your exercise done early in the day or do you keep putting […]
Making your Motivation last
Do you sometimes start a fitness / weight loss programme with a short term goal in mind, such as getting in shape for a holiday, wedding, Christmas party etc, only to lose that motivation after the event? Many people are only motivated by such events and as such fail to incorporate working out into their […]
Lose Weight & Get Fit with Functional Training
You may have heard the term ‘Functional Training’ in regards to fitness lately but what exactly is it? Having worked in the Fitness Business for over 15 years now I believe that this type of training is the future of fitness! Everyone should be incorporating Functional Training into their exercise routines. Functional training is Movements […]
Torch Body Fat by Boosting your Metabolism!
Your Metabolism controls the amount of calories you burn throughout the day and therefore determines how fat or thin you are. Although your metabolism slows with age, it’s quite simple to turn back the time by speeding up your metabolic rate, effectively slowing down the aging process! Your metabolic rate is the speed at which […]
Tips on Losing Fat
To Lose Fat: 1.Don’t Crash Diet If you don’t eat, you’ll lose weight, right? Yes, in the short term, but you’ll be using valuable muscle for fuel. If your body thinks it’s starving, it releases a flood of adrenaline and cortisol. These cause your body to burn muscle and store fat, the reverse of what […]
New Years (Fitness) Resolutions
New Years Resolutions! It’s that time of year again when people begin thinking about New Years Resolutions & how they will improve their lives in the coming year. Here we will give you some very useful information on setting your health & Fitness Goals so that your New Years Resolution is something that won’t be […]
Kettlebells-The Latest way to Shape Up Fast!
Are You interested Weight Loss, Body Shape, Power, Strength, Developing the Core Muscles & improving Aerobic Fitness? In the past few years interest in the kettlebell has taken off. Kettlebell lifting is still relatively new in “the West” though it has been practised in Eastern Europe and Russia possibly back as far as 1704. Widely […]
The Benefits of Weight Training for Strength
What happens when we do Resistance Training for Strength? Lifting weights that feel heavier than what we are used to puts our muscles under a certain degree of stress and as a result they are temporarily weakened. The body’s natural response to this weakened state is to rebuild the muscles so they are equipped to […]
