When you start and exercise program, you are motivated, determined and are on a high for the first few weeks. The glamour starts to wear off quickly and you realise there is no short cut and it just comes down to hard work. At some point you might miss a session, then a few, then 3 months later, all your good intentions to succeed this time around, have gone (again). How did this happen? You know you need to exercise and feel so much better for it, so why have you failed agai

If you know me, I have had numerous injuries over the years- I accept it comes with training hard, sometimes we do get injured. Having an acceptance mindset is the best way to deal with this, and then working around the injury (while doing rehab), can keep you progressing forward. Firstly with an injury, it is good to get it checked, by an appropriate specialist- your doctor, physiotherapist, or orthopedic doctor and get tests done to diagnose the issue, instead of guessing w

With every magazine targeted at women to "drop a dress size", "lose 3kg in 15 days" or some other sexist stupid fad claim that people buy into, it's easy to see how a lot of clients who come to me tell me they want to lose weight as their number 1 goal. I like to suggest instead of a "number on the scale" goal in the beginning, why not focus on a performance based goal? It takes the pressure off weighing yourself daily (and most probably an unrealistic number), and a feeling