There was an array of articles last month about some new research coming out from Sweden about the effects of obesity and health which painted a more serious picture than previously thought. The Swedish research team...

Many people talk about mindset within fitness but what do they actually mean by it.  My book really delved into the many aspects that fall under the term mindset, it is wide ranging and includes your beliefs, ingrained...

I'm in a ranting mood so thought I'd write about the things annoy me in fitness. Before I get into it, understand that any movement is better than nothing, so everything below is still better than not doing anything as...

A few weeks ago we talked about mastering hunger and the six hunger types that cause you to eat. There are other elements to consider in addition to this that can create real and substantial change. I write this after...

The Irish Olympic runner Steve Scullion, who has a built a big following during his training for the Paris Olympics, put out a highly emotional and interesting video about his failure in the London marathon and the...

Last weekend, I did my second Hyrox event after a solid five months of preparation. You may remember my first Hyrox event back in November was messed up by injury so I had barely trained for preceeding two months.   ...

Last night I went to the Global Trade Review awards dinner where my personal training was part of an auction for charity. One of my longer term clients Duarte helped set up the charity Shelter Them in Rwanda. They...

One of my goals when working with people on body transformation goals is to reconstruct their association to hunger both in a physical sense in and their behavioural reaction. It is much easier to do this than you...

We are into spring with the days being much longer and the sun has sort of shown it's face. This is the time to start that pre summer fitness effort. Below is a simple test anyone can do, you can then return to it in a...

It has been a while since I have discussed any research articles so here are three I enjoyed recently. They focus on the power of taking a break when trying to lose weight, how Butekyo breathing can improve asthma and...

We know that if you want to be fit then you must give your body enough stimulus to generate fitness. This includes doing something that increases breathing / heart rate (aerobic exercise) and something that makes the...

One of the problems with my book and model of body transformations was I had a deep interest in what were all of the factors that could be necessary to create change, or cause people to remain stuck. This was fairly...