A few weeks ago I gave you a workout for tightening up your midsection through the use of targeted flexibility work and the vacuum technique from bodybuilding. This is probably your best strategy if you want to improve your midsection appearance in a very short term...

I was telling a client this week about a guy I trained who made some very rapid fitness gains. A long time exercise hater, he was literally doing fitness for the first time in his life when he started our training. He was a heavy smoker and drinker in his late forties...

I was back in Dubai for a few days this week, and it was super hot! A bit too much, as the UK summer did not overly prepare me for 42°C, but it was a fun trip nonetheless. While out at dinner one night, I was chatting with someone who enjoys Barry's Bootcamp, and she...

It is not overly difficult to work out your calorie needs. Most people try to use an app to guesstimate it or use the data from Fitbit, Apple Watch, etc. These all have major limitations. This is because the number of calories your body needs has so many factors...

en it comes to getting in shape, more people have trouble reducing their food intake than they do with moving more, but why is this? For starters, it is a negative goal, you are trying to not do something (eating), rather than focusing on moving more. Many people work...

There are various themes and conversations I look to discuss with all of my clients. One of them is about how to understand your metabolism during the process of changing your body.  The vast majority of people use the wrong concept for this area. All too often it is...

I have updated my member's area by adding another 10 workouts to it. There are just under 40 in total now. It is based on the training I used during lockdown while the gyms were closed. It worked well as I gained enough muscle to win a trophy in my last bodybuilding...

If you play any sport, be this casual tennis, competitive rugby or a martial art your success comes down to the interplay of your skills vs fitness abilities. What is often missed is that your skills are built out of your fitness ability. There is no point on working...

The BBC wrote about some new research published in the European Journal of Preventative Cardiology that looked at the association of steps vs health risk. The researched reviewed the data from 17 studies on over 200,000 people to see what effect walking had on...

The nature of health and fitness behaviours is that you will go through periods of better patterns and of course periods of worse habits. This is both normal and expected. The baseline average of these two is what I refer to as your neural connections in my book....

I have always been a fan of personality tests and questionnaires to discover more about yourself. In fact, I have a spreadsheet where I keep the scores of various personality tests that I have done on my friends :). This allows me to link the results of real world...

I stumbled on a debate on Quora about what it is like to have '6 pack abs'. As you would expect on a website where anyone can answer your question there was a host of differing opinions. However, the same themes kept coming up and I found many of the points illogical...