The scales: just the mere mention of them is probably something that will fill many of you reading this with a feeling of dread. They are an object that many of us have a love/hate relationship with, or in some cases, just simply a relationship of pure hate. Are they, objectively speaking, bad? Of course not - and for lots of people it’s a good thing to weight themselves regularly and track their weight. It helps them to stay accountable and measure their progress. To these people I say; go ahead, keep at it. However, they’re not the ones I’m writing this blog for, and I’d hazard a guess they’re probably not the ones who are reading it right now, either…

The majority of the food that we consume is made up of our 3 macronutrients: Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates. After we have our overall calorie intake in check (ie. in line with our desired goals/outcomes, our macros are our next port of call - ensuring that we are getting the ‘right’ amounts of each.

If you are working towards a specific health and fitness goal, or simply would like to, I can almost guarantee that you will get better results, or at least reach your goal more quickly, if you work with a good coach or trainer. Having a Personal Trainer is obviously a discretionary service - it is not for everyone, and nor is it necessary for everyone to have a trainer - but if you have the capacity to hire a coach/trainer, I would strongly recommend you do.

Since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic last year, all of us have become more than a little familiar with video conferencing software - notably (for us at least) Zoom. Our entire business has, at times, had to become a purely ‘online’ enterprise, with all of our sessions and classes having to be delivered via Zoom. While I’m sure we all tire of our whole lives running through a computer screen at times, the technology has been a vital lifeline for many businesses and individuals

Lifting weights, strength training, pumping iron - these are all terms which, more often than not, are used to describe resistance training. Now, resistance training is a broad term - it covers a vast amount of different forms and types of exercise, performed by all different types of people. It doesn’t have to mean lifting very heavy weights, or performing olympic lifts, or even going to the gym at all.