Could meditation really help you achieve your fitness goals? Sometimes in health & fitness, all you need to achieve your goals is an effective workout program, at others you need to zoom out and look at things in a holistic way. This allows you to get a full idea of what your personal challenges and […]
Getting consistent with exercise is one of the greatest challenges people face in their fitness journey, I’ll show you how to overcome it once and for all.
Estimated Reading Time: 18 Minutes I’m going to make the case for a regular exercise practice being the single most effective strategy for career success. Of course written by a career personal trainer as this article is, you’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes at the title and what you might assume are my motivations for writing […]
Back in my years studying psychology, I came across a simple goal-setting system that would allow one to determine whether a new goal they had was likely to be successful. If you could set a goal that made sense and matched the S.M.A.R.T goal-setting system, you could be pretty sure that the goal, at least […]
First, focus on your pain point Like many beginners in fitness, my early goals were purely aesthetic. Simply put, I wanted to feel like was in shape, you know, gain muscle and lose body fat, ideally at the same time. As I’d never been in shape before at that point, I naturally questioned whether it […]
If you’ve landed on this article, chances are, you’ve recently enjoyed a summer holiday. And like many are facing one or the two common fitness-related changes below. The two major summer holiday-related fitness challenges Challenge 1: You can’t get back into fitness after your holiday Firstly, your fitness regime has probably taken a bit of […]
If you are motivated today, why would you wait? In the months running up to the festive period, it can be tempting to think that it would make sense to draw a line in the sand come the new year, and put off beginning a new training program until January as that will be when […]
Having a mindfulness practice is akin to being present and having a conscious awareness of yourself and what is around you in the moment. Whether you are trying to maintain that throughout the day, or deliberately taking time out to focus on it’s pursuit for a few moments per day, simply introducing it into your […]
You don’t actually lack motivation I’m quite often told by my inbound online personal training clients that in their own view they are “not very motivated to exercise” What’s worse is that for one reason or another, many have actually incorporated this limiting belief into their identity, using statements like “I’m not a very motivated […]
When trying to achieve impressive results in fitness, it’s going to come down to two things, following the right workout plan and staying consistent with it. The first is pretty easy to solve with a good deal of research or having a personal trainer build a program for you, I’ve actually written a guide to […]