While your body weight on the scales can sometimes be an indication of overall health, in many cases it's misleading, inaccurate and demoralising. Most scales are inaccurate or difficult to interpret accurately, even expensive ones. Moreover, if we lose body...
Have you ever compared yourself to someone else while exercising in the gym, felt intimidated and totally out of your depth? You’re not alone. It’s common and totally normal to want to fit in. In fact, it’s a very instinctual human response we probably evolved to...
Most people, if not all, will experience an episode of anxiety and/or depression in their lifetime, which may be short lived or long term. I’ve had bouts of anxiety throughout my life with varying degrees of severity. There’s been times I’ve had low level anxiety and...
Are you over 40 and feel like every day movements are getting harder? Perhaps getting up off the floor is more difficult, or you look at a flight of stairs and think ‘Nope, I’m taking the escalator?’ You’re not alone, this process happens to all of us and it's...
Not everything that is contagious is bad for us, take enthusiasm for example. Being around people who have higher energy levels or a positive outlook helps us step outside of our own perceived limitations. This is why a good Coach (or a DJ for that matter) knows how...
Life is not a montage, and yet sometimes we expect it to be. Wouldn’t it be great if we could achieve peak fitness in the time it takes to watch Rocky box and skip his way to greatness? The truth is, sometimes healthy habits can be a bit of a grind. Also true is that...
I believe you need 3 key elements to stay healthy, feel good and not worry about your weight. It’s been working for me for over 10 years so I stand by it. In order of importance. 1) Eat fresh wholefoods and limit sugar (especially if you’re enjoying more booze than...
Caz is a goal setting champion, but it wasn’t always this way. She is like anyone else, she’s had her highs and her lows. So we thought we’d ask her how she made her breakthrough that transitioned her from 20kgs overweight and stressed out to a lifestyle of regular...
Several years ago, I decided ‘I’m going to start running to lose weight’. Most evenings I’d part run/part walk the 6km path around the river, I couldn’t yet run the entire 6kms. I continued this habit for several months, eagerly anticipating transformation. Did I lose...
When stressed our natural instinct is to overthink strategy and make solutions to our problems more complicated than necessary. When clients aren’t getting the results they want they tend to leap to the ‘do more workouts’ conclusion. In my experience as a Coach, I...
Have you been seduced by Abdominal Workouts that promise visible rock-hard ab’s? Ironically they are the most inefficient way to achieve that goal. One of the first things you learn when becoming a coach is that you can’t spot reduce. No amount of sit ups will get rid...
Aside from the physical benefits of exercise, which are reason enough to do it, the mental health benefits are priceless. Sigmund Freud said ‘depression is anger turned inwards’. People who suffer from depression often have intense “critical inner voices” that...
Many people, myself included, have been caught up in a calorie counting fad in hope of achieving weight loss. In my early 20s I kept a detailed daily record of my calories in/out. It wasn’t long before my obsession became a problem. I’d heard 1,200 calorie diets were...
Does just getting to the gym feel like an epic challenge, the mental equivalent of exiting a hoarders house – packed to the roof with resistance and obstacles? Time and time again we meet people who say ‘this time’ and sign up for yet another membership, expecting it...
What is Plyometrics? Plyometric exercises are dynamic or explosive in nature and take advantage of the stretch shortening cycle (SSC) which is the storage of elastic energy and challenges your fast twitch fibres. Basically it’s any type of explosive movement which...