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How’s Your Circadian Rhythm?

20.10.2025

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As the clocks change this weekend, apparently along with the weather, I thought it would be a good time to write about daylight and circadian rhythm.

While it is much easier to not bother going outside when the days are shorter and the weather is less than inviting, it is still well worth making the effort, because even when the weather is miserable, it is significantly brighter outside than it is inside – so you’re still getting that all important serotonin hit.

They say that a good night’s sleep starts the minute you get out of bed in the […]

Can Eating What You Crave Promote Weight Loss?

17.06.2025

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Mindset, Weight Loss

I stumbled upon an interesting study the other day.

It showed that people who ate a bit of what they craved alongside a generally balanced diet actually did better and lost more weight over a year than those who didn’t. And their cravings remained manageable for the following year too.

Really, this shouldn’t be a surprise.

Despite the fact that we all feel convinced that if we are to lose weight then our diet must be pretty much perfect. We’re either eating well and losing weight or we’re doing the opposite.

But yet again, the middle […]

Creating New Routine – A Handy Trick To Help

27.05.2025

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Health, Mindset

For most of us, there are certain things which we find easy and other things which we find difficult.

Life gets in the way, and those changes we’re trying to put into place gradually fall away until we remember them again!

I’m no exception. There are always lessons I’m re-learning and which I try to make a point of remembering.

Right now, I seem to continually forget how much better I feel the next day when I get to sleep by 10pm, and also, I’ll drink tea until it comes out my ears, but I […]

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 […]

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 […]

Focus on Your Actions

22.01.2025

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Health, Mindset, Weight Loss

Sticking with the theme of finding better ways to measure your success than analysing yourself in the mirror or standing on the scales, here’s another idea:

Focus on your actions, rather than the outcomes.

Of course, we’re usually looking for an outcome from the effort we put in to our health and fitness.

But ultimately, we cannot absolutely control what the outcome will be.

We know that by getting fitter, improving our mobility and eating more healthily, we’re going to head in the right direction – in fact, I’d argue that it would be impossible not to […]

Track These Areas Instead of Relying on the Scales

17.01.2025

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Mindset, Weight Loss

Following on from my last email about the shortcomings of using only the scales and mirror to gauge your progress towards your goals.

I have some better, simple, ideas for what you should assess in order to see how you’re doing. These areas should consistently improve as you go along – and they should stay around for the long term too.

This makes them really effective, encouraging and accurate at showing you how you’re doing. If one area isn’t improving, or starts heading backwards, then it’s a sign that you need to adapt you plan to get […]

Diet & Exercise At Christmas

11.12.2024

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Health, Mindset

Discussing how to approach your diet and exercise routine over Christmas is a conversation I’m having a lot with clients at the minute.

It feels like quite a big topic, perhaps because I don’t think there’s really a right answer to how you “should” approach things.

How do you feel about your diet and exercise routine over the next few weeks?

Are you looking forward to a break? Perhaps you’re resigned to a break?

Perhaps you’re worried that the inevitability of all the tasty, extra calories and the ease with which you could avoid exercise […]

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 […]