Not something you’ll hear often among health and fitness gurus. The chaos that often comes alongside the Christmas period can often be demonised for it’s often negative effect on your diet, habits and behaviours that would traditionally take you closer to your fitness goals! Yes. This makes a lot of sense. However, I prefer to zoom out and look at the bigger picture. I see Christmas as an opportunity and I’m going to tell you why. Christmas is a time where we will often be af

It is around this time of year that you will likely be looking towards the new year and quite possibly playing with the idea of hiring your own coach to help guide you along the path towards your health and fitness goals. It is often around this time of year that we let our hair down and enjoy the festivities that come with the Christmas period! Following this we often struggle with the January blues and finding a routine that works as we try to put our right foot forward in

Something I feel isn’t discussed enough when it comes to getting started on or looking to improve your health and fitness! What are you struggling with in your daily life? How do you think working on your health and fitness can help you better manage or even overcome this obstacle? How much does this mean to you? Are you doing it for yourself or to try impress others? These are important questions that can often add a lot more value and meaning to the goals you set and the da

Considering this my 200th time writing one of these articles, I thought it only fitting to discuss a topic I am deeply passionate about! The role that movement and exercise plays in our health, wellbeing and overcoming pain and injury!! It happens to most of us at some point. We feel something go. We find ourselves in fight or flight. Our natural instinct is to rest and protect what we now believe is fragile and weak. We stop moving as much. We stop training. We find ourselve

As I get older and (possibly) a little wiser! I find myself reflecting on previous beliefs and methods I applied along my own fitness journey and previous coaching philosophies that played a role in how I have helped clients in the past on the path towards their goals. Like many health professionals, it did not take much reflection to acknowledge some key turning points over the years! In this article I will highlight 3 important ones!   You can’t out-train a bad diet!   This

Going to the gym and the explosion of health and fitness fads we have seen over the last year is probably on a level we have never seen before. More and more gyms are opening up, more and more trends surfacing, crossfit, hyrox, bodybuilding, etc. The list goes on! So what’s all they hype and why are so many people starting to engage in more physical activity? In this article I hope to unpack this as best I can! First things first, it goes without saying, people are starting t

Something that is likely to raise its head at some point in our lives. A period of time where we struggle to manage some form of pain or injury. In this article, I will offer my opinion on how to best manage this sometimes rather difficult period and be proactive in how you look to adapt and overcome it! First things first, it goes without saying that we should get the opinion of a suitably qualified health professional, especially if the pain or injury happened quite suddenl

Over the past years I have had the pleasure of working with a wide variety of individuals with a wide variety of needs and unique circumstances to work around and mange in the background. The goal of getting qualified as a physiotherapist for me was to better position myself to help a wider array of individuals to not only come back from pain and injury, but to work towards some more meaningful health and fitness goals! This has led me towards putting a small ebook together w

An area that a lot of people will likely struggle with at some stage along their health and fitness journey. Their ability to program some exercises across the week that meet them where they are at and are structured in a way that is appropriate for their goals. This can often be easier said than done but there are some basic principles we can follow that should point us in the right direction! Push! A pushing movement, any movement where we are pushing whether this be as sim

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