Park Runs – My First One!

For the first time for a long time I didn’t have any clients this Saturday as I was going to watch the rugby which was subsequently cancelled because of the typhoon. This meant I was free for once at 9am Saturday morning and thus was able to participate in a...

Fitness Chat ;)

Another week or training people and various fitness conversations. Some of my main chats are below – Junk Food Causes Blindness – You may have seen the BBC article about the teenager who lost his sight due to living off a diet limited to just chips and...

Big Three Stress Coping Methods

When it comes to health & fitness then stress is often high up on people’s lists of things that knocks them off track. When it comes to happiness stress is clearly the number 1 reason we do not feel happy. Stress comes in many forms from worrying about...

Questions For The 2nd Half of The Year

A couple months ago I told you about some good questions that looked back on your progress this year. Those questions are equally applicable at the half way point as they were on May 1st. You can see them here>>>   However, what about planning forwards...

Regular Exercise & The Increasing Fitness Problem

A few conversations last week came back to the issue of exercise and the appropriate approach for the kind of exerciser you are. In general, there are two types of people, those who are inconsistent with exercise / never do it and people who pretty much exercise all...

1 Day Plans – All Vitamin &Mineral Requirements

It has been a while since I have sent an example meal plan that gets all your vitamin and mineral needs within one day of eating so today I have three for you. The research shows it is ok to get your vitamin needs across different days as the body stores nutrients but...