Almost everyone is in search of some extra motivation around their health and fitness. There seems to be a general thought that motivation is something you find and then possess. In reality, being motivated is something that you do. It is how you act that creates and...

Last week was the London Marathon and as usual I was there watching and playing drums with my Samba Group. It is always good fun seeing the elite men and women's athletes down to the variety of fancy dressed runners. My favourite this year was a guy with a cross on...

I use fasting techniques with almost every client in some form to help them get results. The reason is fairly simple, modern life trains you to eat too much, too often and this will gradually increase in both dimensions over time if left unchecked. A simple way round...

It is the 1st of May which means we are four months into the year and a great time to ask some health & Fitness progress questions... answer these - - How Has Your Body / Health and / or Fitness Changed This Year? - If you had any goals in one of more of these...

An interesting article today on the BBC today discussing health and body weight. It was sbout a study that surveyed over 2.8 Million people for over 15 years. One of the studies main conclusions was - - Severely Obese People Were 50% higher risk of dying prematurely...

Whenever a new client starts with me one of the first things we look at is if all the key muscles on the body are awake and active. This is especially important with anyone who is suffering from injuries. The body has the ability to inhibit muscles, which means...

Whenever I am socialising I always get asked health & fitness questions, which I love answering of course! This week a friend asked "How Do I Give Up Sugar?". My answer is below. Before I get into this it does raise the question about whether you should even give...

There are two issues to body transformations, one is, can you get yourself to your goal and then the second is can you maintain it going forwards afterwards? Most weight loss studies are judged by how the person is after five years from starting the plan and usually 4...

I spend a lot of time discussing bad eating with clients as it is central to most goals. In general I find people are too harsh on themselves around the errors they make. Some of this comes back to the mistaken belief they can control their metabolism as discussed...