With every year that passes, we have one wish in relation to the health and fitness industry. I wish that the BS would stop. The scaremongering, the lies, the total and utter nonsense that is put out there so that someone can either gain a profile, sell a diet, market a service, sell magazines, seal […]
Understanding the Scales
With every New Year, there’s usually a resolution, and amongst those made the vast majority are about (cue the drumroll)…. WEIGHT LOSS. Its not really that surprising, with a brand new year, the intention is there for many to drop a few kilos, start to eat better, exercise, get healthy whatever. Well, before you decide […]
Better Goals with 3 Steps
It’s December, and even though we’ve been talking goals with client’s all year, for some people out there, you’re looking to 2019 and thinking “What are my goals and what do I want from next year?” Whether it’s health and fitness or something else entirely, the link below will help you out with 3 tips […]
DON’T SAY THE “F” WORD
“It’s not a mistake if you learn from it.” But what about when you think you F-F-F….Failed? Fact is, sometimes failure is just a huge mistake of monumental proportions that make you feel terrible, pretty crap, and miserable, so how do you pick back up and get on with it. You learn from it. You […]
Top 20 reasons to exercise (and fat loss isn’t on it)
Are we preaching to the choir or do you need a gentle nudge? Never miss another workout again with these top 20 reminders of why it’s important you get to the gym today. We’ve gone around and asked our trainers “Fat Loss aside, why should clients exercise?” Decrease risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancers […]
PT & Cake. Decisions made easy
You’ve got a big event coming up. It’s going to be the most important day of your life and so the preparation begins. Everything needs to be spot on, especially the cake. Where do you start? How do you pick? If I told you to go to the Sara Lee factory and buy a slab […]
Too OLD? Not in our gym!
“You’re too old to be doing that!” We’ve all heard, said, or been on the receiving end of that statement, but do we really believe it and should you let it define you in the gym? On any given day, between our PT sessions and our SQUAD group training, our membership age would span decades! […]
The Reason Your Weekend Is Killing Your Progess
Eating out and staying on track with your fat loss goals can be tough! But it’s not impossible…. I find that you can lump most people that struggle with social events, and their effect on training results into one of these three categories: The Anxious and Nervous Type – “I don’t know how I’m going […]
Understand Your Pain
There’s some really stupid sayings that float around the gym, amongst them”No Pain No Gain”. What does this mean? That every time we train we should be in “pain” and what is pain anyway? Mitchell Gibbs has spent many hours studying pain and deciphering what it means and as a Coach, he loves finding ways […]
Get Real with Exercise!
GET REAL with exercise. “How much should I exercise to reach my goals?” The answer to this is easier than you might think. How much time can you REALISTICALLY give it a week. We don’t deny, science, text books and the like will point you in the direction of 5 -6 times a week but […]