Many people believe they either like exercise or they don't. In reality, enjoying exercise and sticking to it often comes down to developing a series of skills. These include controlling effort, body awareness, injury management and learning how to persuade yourself...

The Experts Hangout podcast episode I recorded a couple of months ago came out this week. We spent 90 minutes discussing motivation, food, fitness, behaviour change, why people start and stop exercise, the reasons diets fail and what actually makes change stick long...

In this 90-minute conversation we discuss motivation, behaviour change, food, fitness, why diets fail, why people start and stop exercise, GLP-1 medications, emotional eating and what actually creates lasting results.  If you have ever struggled to stick to a diet or...

Many people struggle with eating too much at night and assume it means poor willpower or lack of discipline. In reality, evening eating is often driven by hunger, habits, stress, social routines or simply eating too little earlier in the day. If you understand the...

Most people view health and fitness in an unhelpful way. They expect motivation to stay high, results to be linear and themselves to always be in control. These three analogies explain a better way to understand fat loss, behaviour change and long term fitness...

I’m in Barcelona and have just finished a Hyrox race, a good end to this current training block. A personal best but not a great performance. Last year I went to Sweden for another Hyrox and visited the Vasa Museum, home to a huge old warship that sank almost...

Most people think their issue with eating is the diet. In reality it is the way they behave around food that keeps repeating. If you understand your eating personality, you can see what actually needs fixing. What is an eating personality? I have always liked...

This article looks at how your approach to fitness should change across each decade of life. From kids building movement skills, to adults trying to stay consistent, to older ages focusing on strength and mobility, the focus shifts at each stage. The key point is that...

I have previously written all about fasting, which is just a way of organising your eating using a set a period of time you can or cannot eat. That could be 16 hours fasting, 8 hours eating, or longer fasts. It often works for people because it reduces how often you...

A really good piece of research came out recently that looked to review all the studies done on resistance training, weight lifting and strength to see what does the evidence actually tell us? It was done by the American College of Sports & Medicine (ACSM) as part...

I was on The Experts Hangout Podcast this week, and we got on to discussing The Biggest Loser TV show, weight regain and the effect on metabolism longer term. While looking for the links to send over for the post show notes, I re-read the original research and found...

Easter weekend is upon us and the chocolate eggs will be out. For me, I feel worrying about whether to avoid something, or desperately trying to be good on one day, or weekend in a year is fairly wasteful. The great thing about Health & Fitness is short term...