Blog
Read blogs by some of the fitness industry's least attractive and interesting people. They're online here because they have radio faces and opinions that only bloggers can get away with. Comment freely - we can assure you it's not about them!
Dec 02, 2010
Oct 06, 2010
Too much of a good thing is never enough…or is it?
Sep 30, 2010
May 11, 2010
Could you help somebody who is SAD?
Your clients could be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Do you know what it is and how you can help? read more...
May 07, 2010
The ActivityStat Hypothesis
The ActivityStat Hypothesis: is it possible that, like blood pressure, the amount of energy we expend is controlled by some homeostatic mechanism? read more...
Apr 15, 2010
Personal Trainers Beware!
With machines and technology making so many people 'unnecessary', are personal trainers in danger of being made surplus to requirements too? read more...
Mar 12, 2010
Are you in the wrong relationship?
Do your relationships reflect your personality? read more...
Feb 10, 2010
Would you rather be clever or capable?
Traditional education models focus on knowledge and intellectual superiority, but how useful is it to be brainy anyway? read more...
Jan 13, 2010
Meat Eating With Morality
Vegetarians and non vegetarians often share the same beliefs, but have very different actions. Which ones are more likely to create the change we're looking for? read more...
Dec 08, 2009
Christmas Close Down
There is a time and a place for everything, but the gym on Christmas day..........? read more...
Dec 05, 2009
When it comes to food, we're not all islands...
We live in a world where we admire and reward independence, success through effort and believe you get what you deserve, reap what you sow, stand on your own two feet. The idea is succinct yet very far from reality. We are not islands, we shelter in storms and play in the sun, we crave contact, seek acceptance, adopt cultures often without regard - we are in fact significantly more at the whim of the tides of our environment than we care to admit. And therein lies a window to our health problems that is often underestimated and overlooked by a fraternity that at its core pursues research and inquiry on the basis that we are islands and the seas that lash our shores and winds that buffet our outcrops matter not. Imagine the uproar if I was to suggest we were obese or ill because our parents have made us so, our governments have been paid to do so, and the battle of the marketing minds is, and has been since the sixties, lost to those with profit aims rather than aims that develop the health of their countrymen. Imagine if I was to say it's our belief that we are in fact responsible, independent individuals that has actually enabled an anti-health environment to develop. That one simple belief that we are islands has allowed us to ignore the seas and breeze long enough that now we find ourselves collectively surrounded by all the things that are bad for us. That we have been trained to love what is bad for us. That we have been conditioned to covet the commodities that build wealth within existing power bases rather than encourage fulfilment through family, friendship, physical and spirtual development. We have gone from apples to donuts in less than 100 years with a mix of reckless abandon and delight? The sweet dough, cloud-like texture, the multi-coloured sprinkles on a sticky deep chocolate coating, the instantaneous dissolution of substance with the briefest flash of satiety leaving us wanting more. We now swell with abundance and pay for our generational melancholy. What will it take to shift all of this? read more...
Nov 12, 2009
Is what we’re eating healing or harmful?
You think you've found just the food to keep you lean, healthy and disease free, but it seems that's only half the story! read more...
Nov 05, 2009
Positive Praise
Why is it so easy for us to criticise rather than praise? read more...
Oct 15, 2009
References Available Upon Request
Should you let your references know that they're on your c.v.? And should you give the same references out for each job application? read more...
Oct 08, 2009
Picture This
The first lesson my Personal Trainer taught me read more...
Oct 06, 2009
What do you want to be when you grow up?
What do you do if you don't want to be a lawyer, a doctor or a teacher? Focus on the lifestyle you want first, then design the work to suit! read more...
Oct 05, 2009
Fit Personal Trainers....?
Do Personal Trainers have to be fit to train other people....? read more...
Sep 24, 2009
Uniforms and Marketing....
What should Personal Trainers wear? How should they present themselves read more...
Sep 22, 2009
To bench press or not to bench press? That's the question
The idea behind this is to start a discussion around the purpose of exercises that are not functional to everyday movement patterns...What's the point? read more...
Unnecessary Interactions
With technology advancing quicker than we can keep up with, have we displaced the need to communicate with real people altogether? read more...
