Here’s 6 steps to build a summer body that I use every time I’m 6 weeks away from heading abroad that keep me lean and confident with my top of
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Take these as chapters from a book I’ve never written on how to get in shape and stay there, no matter how busy your life gets.
What does a personal training session look like?
A lot of questions come my way when people enquire about training with myself. 'What do you do?', 'I don't want to get bulky, will your training make me bulky?'. 'Do you just do strength training?', 'I'm a beginner and new to strength training, will this be too hard...
Brutal Landmine Lower Body Finisher
You've probably done some sort of complex for the upper body, or a giant set with a previous trainer but here's a new spin on a complex you've probably never seen before. It starts with the exercise requiring the heaviest weight, before moving to the lightest load on...
How To Get Strong In Under 30 Mins
One of my clients has gone to NZ for a couple of weeks, so here’s a sample strength workout I built to keep building her strength.
What to eat to get lean, strong & toned
The first question I inevitably get when chatting with clients, or at randomers at a bar when I tell them what I do is…
‘What do I eat then?’
Whilst it means well, it opens up a can of worms and the so-called client/stranger clinging to every word that I’m about to say.
How To Achieve Your First Pull Up
How to achieve your first-ever pull-up in 6 weeks – even if you can’t hang from the bar right now.
Progressing Your Home Workouts
How can you build strength whilst working out at home with weights that are lighter than what you usually use in the gym? Look no further than these 6 variations that will have you trembling with even the lightest of weights.
3 ways to make a single exercise more challenging
I might be writing this for my purposes only because I can’t imagine there are many nutters people out there who are after tougher workouts, but you never know. When you’re training you’ll invariably get to a point where an exercise that was challenging only a few…
6 ways to progress your lunges: Progressions & regressions for lower body strength
We find reverse lunges more effective for most of our clients because it’s easier to stabilise and balance through the movement and it’s far easier to learn than a forward lunge. Both have their places but keeping the front foot stable seems easier to master than trying to place it in front like the forward lunge.
How to track your workouts
One way of staying on top of your fitness and knowing whether you’re heading in the right direction is to track your workouts.
3 Rules For Easily Navigating Social Situations
If you struggle to maintain your health with a busy social life, use these 3 rules to easily navigate a night out and still stay on track.
Why MyFitnesspal Isn’t Working For You
Learning to track your intake isn’t a forever fix, but it is one you should seriously consider if you’re at a crossroads with your fat loss. Making small and subtle changes as outlined above will have you winning your war with myfitnesspal and that increasingly annoying stubborn fat that you haven’t been able to shift.
Weighing yourself daily matters, here’s why
Weighing yourself daily matters when it comes to losing weight, here’s why
10 Questions To Find Your Deepest Values In Life
Over the years I’ve often found the true success factor that determines whether you’ll get in shape or not isn’t about how much hard work you’re willing to put in.
How to get good at press-ups
If you want to look good in a t shirt and build impressive upper body strength stop neglecting press ups
The Tech I Use For My Personal Training Business
Us personal trainers have a love hate relationship with tech but if you want to manage and streamline your business better, you need these 7 tools.
How Strong Should I Be?
Ever wondered how strong you should be? Here I outlay my strength standards everyone should strive to achieve for a longer, healthier life.
How to Meal Prep In Less Than An Hour
Stop living out of Tupperware full of chicken and broccoli. Here’s how to eat lean in under 60 minutes a week to get fitter, stronger and leaner.
3,2, 1 Method For Your Meals
Here’s a simple mental model to prep your meals to ensure you’re always on top of your diet.
How To Properly Warm Up For Your Lifts
If your goal is to build muscle, get stronger, become pain-free, and stay lean most of the year, you need to change the way you warm up. Here’s how:
7 Common Strength Training Mistakes
Make sure you’re not making these 7 common strength training mistakes if your goal is to get leaner and stronger
Meal Frequency: Is Little and Often Best For Weight Loss?
There used to be this belief that went around that eating little and often was somehow better for your metabolism. By eating smaller meals more often, it would fire up your metabolism and allow you to burn more fat. In fact, I still get people telling...
Planning Your Annual Fitness Goals
The Annual Planning Guide Today at a Glance: My Annual Planning Guide includes (1) a simple goal-setting framework, (2) two system-building mental models, and (3) a strategy for tracking and adjusting throughout the year. This annual planning process has been an...
6 Leaderships Lessons From Southgate
As gutted as I am this morning, and I am, I can’t help to be proud of what the England team has managed over the last month. You could say it’s just football, but England and Southgate have stood up to racism and bigotry, went toe-to-toe with the world's best and came...