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Reducing Symptoms of Ageing

5.08.2025

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While the health and fitness world seems interested in longevity lately, I thought it would be interesting to write about ageing.

Obviously there are markers of ageing, and these are the main focus of recent research into longevity – but there are also lots of symptoms of age too.

We can improve these symptoms of ageing by taking some simple, positive actions.

And, I’d guess that for most of us, these symptoms of ageing feel more immediately relevant than the markers associated with longevity.

So, what are the actions we can take if we want to improve our symptoms of […]

Why Yoga & Pilates Aren’t Great For Gaining Strength

22.07.2025

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Fitness

Let me start by saying that I have nothing against either yoga or pilates. They can form really useful parts of a complete workout routine. The movement involved in both is super good for you…

But, they’re not appropriate exercise choices for long term strength and muscle gains because they have limited ability to progressively overload your muscles.

Without being able to progressively overload – or increasingly challenge – your muscles (i.e. make things a little harder when they start to feel easier than they once did), your muscles aren’t put under pressure to adapt further – and this means […]

The Best Kind Of Exercise?

14.05.2025

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Fitness, Health, Weight Loss

I know you’re expecting me to say strength training (and as a whole package, strength training still wins hands down)

BUT

As something with pretty much zero knowledge, equipment or other requirement, walking is awesome.

Even if you already do a couple of workouts a week, if your daily step count is low, you’ll gain benefits from walking.

Although the 10,000 daily steps target is often spoken about, 7000-8000 steps likely brings the same amount of benefits.

You don’t need to start here though. Find out how many steps you’re already doing each day […]

Getting The Best Out Of Corrective Exercise

2.04.2025

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Fitness, Mindset

Despite writing workout programs to help clients with niggles, pains and injuries every day, I continue to find myself surprised and excited to see how profound the effects of corrective exercise can be.

I’ve got a few examples of things I’ve found especially exciting over the last few months:

Two separate early stage workout plans have provided a pretty much immediate resolution to two clients chronic back pain. Another program has radically improved nerve pain which has been going on for years. A much more gradual approach has seen a client almost back to full function after an […]

Do You Breathe Through Your Mouth?

19.03.2025

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Fitness, Health

Perhaps this is a bit of a weird topic.

Who knew how you breathed was so important!

The way you breathe overall is linked to your posture and core engagement.

But whether you breathe through your mouth or nose has far reaching impacts on your body and health as a whole!

If you’re breathing through your mouth most, or all, of the time then it’s really worth trying to change that.

Mouth breathing is simply not optimal for your body. Of course, you can get air in quickly through your mouth, but it just doesn’t support your […]

Aching After Starting a New Workout?

10.02.2025

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Fitness, Mindset

Are you feeling achey after starting a new exercise routine – or even just doing something different to usual?

It’s probably something called DOMS.

It usually comes on about 12-24 hours after your workout or activity.

It can be really quite painful and alarming if you’re not expecting it, but it usually starts to reduce on the second day and will gradually decrease over the following three days.

I think there might some individual variation to the chances of you experiencing muscle ache. I’ve worked with clients who get DOMS super easily, and clients who never seem […]

Are You Accidentally Slowing Your Metabolism?

20.11.2024

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Fitness, Health, Weight Loss

If you’re consistently doing these things, then you probably are sending signals to your body to slow your metabolism down:

Eating less
Using cardio as your primary exercise
Skipping meals

I’ve met so many people over the years who do these things when they’re trying to lose weight. And quite reasonably so! This is pretty much the recipe we’re sold for weight loss.

But, the trouble is that it’s a race to the bottom.

Eating less and exercising more requires you to keep reducing your food intake and increasing your energy output in order to […]

What’s YOUR Definition of Fit & Healthy?

14.11.2024

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Fitness, Health, Mindset

How do YOU interpret “fit and healthy”?

Is it a particular look? A feeling? Something more specific?

For most of us, while losing a few pounds might be rather welcome, the bigger picture of what we want to achieve is more practical.

Think for a minute about the videos you see on social media from personal trainers and the like. Have you noticed how they’re almost always super-toned, mega-fit, live-and-breathe exercise people demonstrating exercises which would hospitalise most of us mere mortals?

Perhaps I’m being a bit flippant, but really – I think we are […]

The Most Impactful Things You Can Do For Your Health

7.11.2024

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Fitness, Health, Mindset

I’m a fan of keeping things as simple as possible. And, most of the time for most people, getting the basics right will get you most of the way to your goals.

And yet, we’re always drawn to believing that we need to do something “more”.

Whether it’s trying a particularly strict diet, following an intense workout routine, taking particular supplements or collecting data about ourselves with gadgets and apps, we always feel that more is better. And we often end up bamboozled with too much to do, or too much information, which leads to an on […]

Gaining a Long Term Relationship with Exercise

1.10.2024

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Fitness, Mindset, Weight Loss

I think that the way we approach exercise has a bearing on how likely we are to create a long term relationship with it.

Let’s think about how most people approach exercise.

It’s with a dislike of a particular body part, a desire to punish themselves for whatever sins against body-perfection they feel they have committed. Often the exercise routine is either “full speed ahead” or “totally off” – there’s usually no middle ground with this approach.

It’s quite a stressful situation from all angles.

It’s not really using exercise as a partner to improve […]