The Irish Olympic runner Steve Scullion, who has a built a big following during his training for the Paris Olympics, put out a highly emotional and interesting video about his failure in the London marathon and the ending of his dreams to go the Olympics again. I have...

Last weekend, I did my second Hyrox event after a solid five months of preparation. You may remember my first Hyrox event back in November was messed up by injury so I had barely trained for preceeding two months.    The Hyrox is a multi-fitness event, where you run 8...

Last night I went to the Global Trade Review awards dinner where my personal training was part of an auction for charity. One of my longer term clients Duarte helped set up the charity Shelter Them in Rwanda. They built a school and provide education to 100's of...

One of my goals when working with people on body transformation goals is to reconstruct their association to hunger both in a physical sense in and their behavioural reaction. It is much easier to do this than you would imagine and when you do, it will totally...

We are into spring with the days being much longer and the sun has sort of shown it's face. This is the time to start that pre summer fitness effort. Below is a simple test anyone can do, you can then return to it in a few months to compare your before and after...

It has been a while since I have discussed any research articles so here are three I enjoyed recently. They focus on the power of taking a break when trying to lose weight, how Butekyo breathing can improve asthma and the influence on belief on injury rehab success. ...

We know that if you want to be fit then you must give your body enough stimulus to generate fitness. This includes doing something that increases breathing / heart rate (aerobic exercise) and something that makes the muscles move in a way it feels a bit heavier than...

One of the problems with my book and model of body transformations was I had a deep interest in what were all of the factors that could be necessary to create change, or cause people to remain stuck. This was fairly complex as two people can be very different in how...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the different energy systems within the body and the common terms discussed around aerobic training. Today I look into the many different types of training sessions available to you. Most people say they do not like exercise, yet most...

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...

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...

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...