Two stone is a lot of weight. It may not sound like it at first but when you consider that two stone is about the same weight as 60 small bottles of water or a whole 2-year old person, it begins to sound more like a huge weight loss achievement...
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Finding the time, motivation and wherewithal to make it to the gym several times a week is hard work. If you’re not feeling that challenge, chances are your best intentions are hiding under the stairs gathering dust next to your trainers and...
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Whole Foods: What’s All The Fuss About? As a nation, our knowledge, as well as our access to various types of foods has certainly increased over hundreds of years. Nutrition, that being what we eat, has become a prominent topic of conversation...
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Motivation The Oxford dictionary defines motivation as: “A reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way”. Motivation comes in many forms. It can be visual, emotional or physical and is subjective to an...
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What is a balanced diet? Whether you are trying to lose weight or build muscle, it’s important that you have variety of different foods to help you on your fitness or weight loss journey. Why is that? Well, firstly, keeping variety will help you...
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How do you influence kids to exercise? “Daddy, can I do some exercises this morning?” – Davina, 7 Considering the ever growing, “please don’t mention it again because we’ve heard it so many times” epidemic of childhood obesity, I have...
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Everyone has good days and bad days. One morning last week I woke up and felt like I’d been dragged through a hedge by my eye-lids. As a Personal Trainer, this doesn’t (and shouldn’t) happen very often. However, in the interest of field...
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Steve from Wolverhampton asks: “I try to keep alcohol to a minimum but I do weaken once a week and have some. Can you tell me how I can avoid the overwhelming urge to binge eat. I get the “munchies” and can’t resist crisps...
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In 2009 the vitamin and mineral supplement industry was worth more than £270 million. That’s a lot of pill-popping. Yet several studies recently, including one released just a few days ago, strongly indicated that supplements are at best...
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Can Exercise Prevent Disease? We’ve all heard the anecdote about great uncle Bob, who smoked every day and drank whiskey for breakfast – yet lived to the grand old age of 94. This is sometimes contrasted with someone at the other end of the...
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