Flexible Dieting is all about building a sustainable plan for healthy weight management. It is perfect for fussy eaters, or for people who've learned the hard way that extreme dieting is a bad idea.
Well, I don't know about you guys and girls out there in hubpage-land reading this, but I'm at about that age where more and more friends, colleagues and family members are tying the knot and entering holy matrimony and eternal wedded bliss. ...
This is a very common question, and very common misconception as to the effects of weight training, strength training, and in particular performing heavy compound exercises. While it is becoming a lot more common for women to utilise resistance...
The BMI or Body Mass Index has become something of a controversial topic in the realms of health, fitness and weight loss. The controversy ranges from misunderstandings of what the BMI actually means and is supposed to indicate, through to full...
As a personal trainer, author, blogger and hubpager, I gotta tell you; it's really an uphill battle at times trying to get the message across about how people should actually go about managing their weight for long term health and happiness. In...
As a Personal Trainer and Weight Loss Specialist, perhaps the hardest part of my job is in deprogramming all of the bad information that saturates the internet and mainstream media. Of course I'm talking about all the scam "easy fix" diet products,...
If you've had a look at my profile, you might already know that before I was a Personal Trainer, I had a career in the Security Industry. In this article I combine both of these vocations by applying the Risk Assessment Matrix while considering a...
Online personal training is a great option for many people who are looking to get into shape. This applies to anyone who's trying to lose weight, although specific goals will change from one individual to the next. There are online programs...
Firstly, I'd like the pre-face this article by stating that I am NOT one of those militant, preachy vegetarians here to inflict a moral superiority complex on those of you who like to eat meat. My aim is more to counter some of the “you can't be...
Supersets are one of many tools you can incorporate into your weight training program in a variety of ways, to achieve a variety of different results. In very basic terms, a superset is combination of two or more exercises performed without any...
I'm going to risk offending a few people out there, to bust a lot of the excuses I keep hearing from people who tell me they'd like to get into shape, but just can't. Usually I like to use a kind and supportive approach and really encourage...
This is part 2 of my "Excuse Busting" article on health & fitness. You should read part 1 first! I have a limited diet, for some reason. Forget the myths about what people into training have to eat. Everyone knows about those ideal body building...
I think pre-fatiguing may be the best kept secret in the world of weight training, or at least it seems to be a very under-utilised strategy. In this article I'll attempt to explain the theory behind the pre-fatigue training strategy and give some...
Getting into shape is a daunting task for most people, especially those who have had an inactive or unhealthy lifestyle for an extended period of time. Many people will simply have no idea where to start, what to do, what is effective or unsafe, and...
Functional Training is an important and useful form of exercise that can benefit a variety of people from different backgrounds. Put simply, functional training is designed to assist a person to safely perform their day to day activities. ...
DIETS. Is it just me or does the very word convey the feeling of something rather unpleasant that you'd rather avoid? Almost like some sort of punishment or penance for enjoying yourself a bit too much recently, so you have to subject yourself to a...
This a fairly common question you may hear in a conversation at work or on the train, or you may read it on an Internet forum or advice column. Without getting too cynical too early in the article, the responses seem to be a little lacking...
The title of this article is a phrase I came up with to instruct my Personal Training clients to select the right amount of weight for a particular exercise. Quite often I will suggest that they “go lighter if you have to” - although often i...