Food Satiety Scale – Use It To Eat Less!
My Tik Tok video 'How Weetabix Caused Me to Gain 10kg' now has over 30 000 views. In it, I discuss how I purposefully ate four Weetabix before I went to bed because it would cause me to wake up starving. I would then eat another four of them at 6am which caused me to...
Cancer Survival & Muscle Mass
I read another study this week on the amazing benefits of muscle, this time on increasing survival rates from cancer. This is yet more evidence that you should be doing resistance training; just a few minutes every week could be enough to increase muscle and gain the...
One Thing Every PT Gets Wrong
Every personal trainer seems to overlook this critical aspect and you have probably made the same mistake too. I've been a PT since 2002 and by outgrowing this error I've witnessed significantly improved results. In the past year alone, two of my clients shed over...
Your Energy Systems and How To Train Them
My Friday night fitness group (Fri-Rox) is now 2 months old and we have had some amazing sessions down there. Anyone who has been consistently has made massive improvements already, including myself. Come and join me every Friday on battersea park track, more info...
Why Do All Religions Do This?
It is common across most faiths to observe periods of dietary change or abstinence. In Judaism, there are various occasions calling for dietary restrictions, while Muslims observe Ramadan, and Christians prepare for Lent, which begins tomorrow on Ash Wednesday. ...
Ditch These Attitudes
In my second book "Change Your Thinking, Change Your Shape" I spent a lot of time talking about false beliefs that keep people stuck from getting results and compared it to the different ways people in great shape think. While it is good to be aware of beliefs, one...
Avoid This All Too Common Mistake
As we go into February I have had a couple of discussions with clients and others about how fast they are losing fat. One person told me they had lost a stone (~6.3kg / 14lbs) in January but wanted to hurry up the process. Another client has been going at 1kg (2lbs) a...
The Problem With January Fitness Plans
I have been helping people get in shape, improve their health or achieve a fitness aim since 2002! For some reason I always enjoyed helping people improve themselves and that has not diminished over the 20 years, if anything, it has increased. A big change that has...
My 2024 Fitness Goals
My fitness goals this year are primarily focused on doing my next Hyrox fitness event in May. This ensures my aerobic fitness, strength and body weight are all in a great place. If that all goes well then perhaps I would do the Hyrox Pro event in November after...
New Free Fitness Class Battersea – Hyrox Style Training
I have started a new free fitness class here in Battersea on Friday evenings. Kick the weekend off in style with some Hyrox style fitness training and some banter. Hyrox is a mix of running, body weight exercises and strength training. All levels can be catered for as...
Dry January – How to Make it Super Effective!
As we head into the first weekend of 2024, for many it will be a time without alcohol as they embark upon dry January. As I wrote about in November, I have not drunk since 2008. The process of giving up drinking actually started with a dry January back in 2005. At...
2024 – The Year Ahead – A Helpful Question
As 2024 awaits, the anti-New Year resolutions people will come up with their criticisms of the process while the over enthusiastic will make promises to themselves that will barely last a week. The way I look at it, to achieve your goals you will have to make a change...