I’d like to invite you to come along to the free, one-off, fitness & nutrition seminar I am running next Tuesday in Southampton, at 6.30pm on Tuesday 25th May, at King Edward VI School in Shirley. This event is being held in aid of the Jubilee Sailing Trust – the event is free but you [...]

The traditional fat loss theory that you should perform cardio, such as running, cycling or swimming, for as long as you can in order to burn as many calories as possible has been overturned in recent years. People around the globe began to realise that they were plodding away, day after day, and not losing [...]

Batwings, or bingo wings if you are in the UK, are one of the main problem areas for most women, especially as we get older. The term ‘bingo wing’ refers to the fact that you typically see them when a woman waves – as she does if she’s just won a prize at bingo! But [...]

Are you struggling to summon up the motivation to exercise? Are you constantly telling yourself you must get to the gym, but finding that other things just get in the way? It is a typical scenario, and one that is actually pretty simple to address. The first thing you need to do, is stop hassling [...]

While you need to truly believe in your reason for working towards a goal, sometimes it is important to suspend disbelief and allow yourself to dream big! We are told to keep our goals realistic, and while there is some merit in this on a purely practical level, it can often leave us selling ourselves [...]

Static stretching is where you take a muscle through its full range of motion and hold it there for a length of time. This is a great way to ensure you lengthen muscles back to their original length after a workout session, and to flush away waste products after a hard session. It is also [...]

I have been thinking about Christmas a lot recently, and the effect it has on people. So many people have kind of given up on their nutrition and training, misguidedly assuming that all the parties and special celebratory meals will mean we are bound to gain body fat between now and New Year, and thus [...]

Are you already resigned to the fact that you are going to be one of the millions who gains weight over Christmas? Have you decided that it’s all too much trouble to try to manage to ‘stick to your diet’ so you might as well not bother at all? Or, are you one of the [...]

If you are trying to regulate your food intake in order to lose unwanted bodyfat, but you are hitting a brick wall with your results, you may be beating yourself, or your diet plan, up unnecessarily. A crucial element of successful fat loss is balancing out the overall calorie intake, which means eating less than [...]

The first step to fat loss success is understanding that there really are no ‘quick fixes’. It’s all about making long term and enjoyable changes to your lifestyle – creating habits that will sculpt the lean, fit version of you. Ironically, once you realise that fat loss is not quick and easy, it becomes much [...]