How To Get Fit In Your 40s
First of all, let me caveat this article by saying that at the time of writing, I’m 37 so I haven’t lived through my own 40’s just yet, but I have coached hundreds of people in their 40s to achieve their health & fitness goals and make considerable lifestyle improvements. Of course, I could reel […]
How to Get Fit In Your 20s
Navigated well, your twenties can be a very fruitful period of your life to establish founding principles of exercise and healthy living that will serve you for the rest of your life. The major opportunity is that your body is primed for action and will deliver results even under less than-optimal conditions, the major downside […]
How To Get Fit In Your 30s (A Personal Trainer’s Guide)
In my twelve years as a personal trainer, and as someone writing this article in my thirties, my observation is that the challenges of this decade are far more to do with how we manage the growing pressures of a more responsible life than they are with any tangible descent of our hormones or metabolism. […]
How Motivation Really Works in Health & Fitness
I’m often told by my incoming online personal training clients “I’m not very motivated to exercise” or “I’m not a very motivated person” and I’ve always questioned the validity of that statement. That’s not to say that the individual is telling me a mistruth, but, to me, that the description is inaccurate, and is actually […]
How to Stay Consistent With Exercise
One of the biggest challenges people face with exercise is doing workouts on a consistent basis. Consistency is crucial in maximising the progress of an exercise regime, and although the initial enthusiasm when pursuing a new fitness goal often burns very brightly, over time the flame dwindles and after a series of skipped workouts and […]
How To Make Exercise A Daily Habit
When trying to establish a new exercise program, it is important to be as consistent as possible. Of course, this can be challenging. Many people struggle to establish a consistent exercise habit, which is a shame because even the best laid out workout program isn’t going to work if it’s abandoned early. Why is consistency […]
How to Return to Exercise After a Long Break
As a personal trainer, I often meet people who have gone through many cycles of activity vs complete inactivity. This could be due to any number of reasons that are outside your control, from logistical challenges to an illness or injury, but either way, this can be a major problem. The human body isn’t the […]
How To Build Lean Muscle Mass
When fitness training first piqued my interest as a teenager, the conventional narrative was to spend half of your time ‘bulking’ and the other half ‘cutting’. We really didn’t pay too much mind to the quality of mass gain we were putting on, so long as we were getting bigger. We gave ourselves a licence to eat thousands of calories and almost snarked at cardio, thinking that it would impede our ‘gains’.
Unfortunately this led to a lot of unwanted body fat being accumulated alongside the lean muscle we were working so hard for, which in turn meant really long cuts where we would lose some of that hard earned mass as we dropped body fat. It was a vicious circle.