To Strengthen Your Muscles You Need to Push Them to the Limit – and don't stop there... Men and women alike should be aware of the benefits of properly conditioning and strengthening muscles not only for aesthetics, but for health and longevity. When following a guided and controlled strength-building programme, women in particular can derive … Continue reading Push It!

As I sit here meticulously folding and individually tying the Xmas lights to go back in their box for another year, I KNOW that I will be grateful, come December, that I took that extra time to put things away with some sort of order and rationale. (no tangled lights or broken baubles here!) It … Continue reading What Will Your Future Self Thank You For?

How Your PT Can Deliver Better Outcomes With Your Help The essence of delivering a personal training session is ensuring the relevance of the exercises and activities to each individual Client’s needs. Most personal trainers can to some extent perform a reasonably accurate visual assessment of a prospective Client’s physical capabilities and limitations , but … Continue reading Help your PT help YOU

One of the most rewarding aspects of being a Personal Trainer is the extraordinary number of opportunities available to learn new techniques and disciplines to enhance and improve the benefits I can offer to my clients. And stepping outside our comfort zone tends (as they say) to "come with the territory”. Last weekend, while most … Continue reading A Weekend Spent Just Hanging Around

For Longevity Lift Some Weights? I don’t know if you’ve picked up on the recent story about a new study in which 100,000 people were observed over 10 years or so and which discovered that those whose exercise consisted only of strength training once or twice per week (i.e. no other exercise) were 9% less … Continue reading Live Long and Strong 😉

Habit-Forming for Health When it comes to working out or fitness training all of us need that initial ‘impetus’ of motivation. And that in itself takes commitment (and energy!). But, while motivation is what makes people start a fitness programme, what makes them continue is when it becomes a habit. Definition of a habit: something that you … Continue reading Get the Habit

How Hard Should You Push Yourself During A Workout? Anyone who remembers the mantras “No Pain, No Gain” and “Feel the Burn” may be aware that these came to us courtesy of the film star Jane Fonda, one of the pioneers of video fitness videos back in the early ‘80s (....leotards. Am I right?). I … Continue reading How much is ‘too much’?

“The proportion of people who are physically inactive increases sharply with age, particularly after the age of 55”. (The State of Ageing 2022 online report) I wonder how many of these people just think that they are 'too old' to start exercising, because many times I have heard age used an excuse to avoid physical … Continue reading It’s Never Too Late in Life to Start Exercising

International Kissing Day – Will You Take Part? “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” (The lovely and sensual film legend, Ingrid Bergman) And who would disagree? It seems that enough people have been sufficiently taken with the notion of puckering up and delivering or receiving anything from … Continue reading Pucker up!

Are You a Morning or Evening Exerciser? And Does it Matter? I couldn’t tell you if my brain is at its optimum logical state at 05.30am as I make my way to my Bootcamp Tring session on Wednesdays, but I know that early starts do spark some ‘random’ thoughts... It is while I was in … Continue reading Do you like it in the morning?