Calcium, Magnesium, Vitamin C, Turmeric, Glutamine… the list goes on and on. The number of different supplements that you can buy and consume is enormous - and you could easily fall into the trap of believing you actually need to take all of them in order to be ‘healthy’. However, most supplements you take are likely providing no benefit to your health whatsoever - meaning all you are actually doing is wasting your mon

It’s a widely-accepted idea that as you get older, your metabolism slows down, and therefore the amount of calories you ‘can’ eat therefore decreases. You often hear people talk about how they could eat whatever they wanted, but as soon as they ‘hit 30’, they just couldn’t get away with it anymore. Or that a diet that worked for someone in their 30s no longer works for them in their 50s. Now, the numbers will change based on who you talk to, but the basic idea is always, as you get older, your metabolism naturally slows down, and that’s why it becomes so much harder to lose weight or stay in shape.

In recent years, dieting has been shown in a pretty bad light. With the increase in the amount of fad diets going around, pressures on having a certain body shape or size and the increasing prevalence of eating disorders, it’s understandable why people have pushed back on some of these harmful ideas, and unhealthy dieting culture. However, it’s important that we don’t ‘over-correct’ and start demonising all dieting or attempts to lose weight. Even though there are some ideas and concepts we definitely don’t want to perpetuate, the act of losing weight, or even just attempting to, can be one of the best (and healthiest) things an individual can do.

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.