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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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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Emma Asks, ” I’m Looking to add an exercise class to my workouts. How do I know whether a class will be best for me and if its taught properly?” Great question Emma. Fitness classes, whether they’re outdoors on a muddy...
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I am just getting back into running after a few years focussing on other fitness challenges. After a couple of weeks’ training I entered my local Parkrun to test my fitness and set a benchmark for future weeks. For those unfamiliar with...
READ MOREThe evolutionary diet of our ancestors is usually referred to as the Palaeolithic Diet (PD) referring to the Palaeolithic or Stone Age era. The basic principles of PD are that for millions of years, humans have eaten meat, fish, fowl and the...
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It’s no shock that we are quickly turning into a nation of sedentary individuals and that we no longer ‘need’ to be active to survive. We can quite happily wake up, drive to work, sit at a desk for 8 hours drive home, sit on the sofa, got to bed...
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