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5 Simple Steps To A Fitness New Year Recovery Plan

Are you feeling “bluh”?
Did you over-do-it over the festive season with loads of snacks, high fat foods and extra calories from those party cocktails?
Then you may like to read through the following steps to help you get back on track!
Step 1

Drink lots of water!
With the overindulgence of food and alcohol comes dehydration, stomach pains [...]

Surviving A Low Fat Christmas: Christmas Healthy Eating Tips

Not sure how you are going to make it through the festive season without losing the plot with your low fat Christmas eating plan?
Or…
Did you decide over the previous months to start whipping yourself into shape and now you’re driving yourself crazy with trepidation about ensuring you comply with a low calorie Christmas?
Or…
Are you concerned [...]

Tips To Combat Your Healthy Diet Plan Blues

Now that you’ve discovered where your healthy diet plan needs to be improved what can you do about it… read previous post: How to Beat Your Healthy Eating Plan Rut.
3. a. Obviously to start with you need to make sure your healthy eating plan suits your workout. Without this you are just wasting precious time. [...]

How to Beat Your Healthy Eating Plan Rut!

Are you sick and tired of eating the same old food day in and day out from your healthy eating plan?
Are you at the point where the thought of eating one more high protein low carb diet meal of grilled chicken and broccoli makes you want to puke?
Or maybe you’ve lost your appetite altogether because [...]

Exercise Motivation – Get Real With Yourself And Stop Making Excuses

Are YOUR excuses getting in the way of you getting into shape? Not sure? Maybe you already know this is true and just don’t want to admit it. Most folk at one time of another need some “exercise motivation”.
I have made a few points below along with some examples.
Do any of these apply to you?
1. [...]

Stretching Muscles – The Benefits of Stretching

“I never stretch, I don’t have enough time and I can’t be bothered lying around all over the floor stretching when I am in a hurry to get home from the gym?” Or “I train at home, I can barely squeeze my weights or cardio in – so I skip my stretches”… Sound familiar?! I [...]

Sculpting Your Butt and Thighs to suit Your Body Shape

Butt and Thigh Toning and Exercising
You will be happy to know that you are not the only one out there who wants to tone and shape their butt and thighs. How often, though, is it that [...]

Exercise Bike Training – Increase Your Fitness and Burn Body Fat with Cycling

Whether it be indoor or outdoor, exercise bike training in general is becoming more and more popular. With pollution on the rise and an increase for the push of general health and fitness, cycling is a great way to save $$ on fuel as well as getting fit and burning off a few extra calories.
Which [...]

Build Muscle Tone – Are You Worried About Gaining Too Much Size From Weight Training?

A Common Concern
I have written about the specific topic of how to build muscle tone several times in my Newsletters as it has always been a very common concern – especially amongst women.
The most frequently asked questions regarding this issue are: “I would like to increase my lean muscle but I am afraid that [...]

Building Muscle Tips – Effective Steps to Build Muscle

Before we start on the building muscle tips…
When you think of muscle building some folk tend to envisage huge freaky physiques – like the ones that you frequently see in the some of the muscle mags. Every time they flex their clothes burst open with buttons flying off everywhere. I know – that’s a bit [...]

Protein And Muscle Gain – Do They Work Hand In Hand?

Protein and muscle gain – do they work hand in hand?
Have you ever wondered why you weight train like crazy and yet your muscle definition decreases? You’ve increased your weights, cardio’d your head off to lose extra body fat, thinking you’ll looked ripped, but none of this seems to work. You are not sure what [...]

Your Body Shape and Body Fat Distribution

Have you ever heard your friends or family members say: “I have got mom’s thighs and butt”, or “I have got dad’s belly” etc? Genetics does play a part in body fat distribution but there are also other factors involved such as gender and race etc. I want to go through a few areas with [...]

Abdominal Workouts – The Truth On How To Achieve Toned Abs!

It’s certainly not news to anyone that getting toned abs aint easy. People all over the world spend thousands of dollars per day attempting to accomplish toned abs. With abdominal workouts and programs being being released left, right and centre, everyone [...]

Fat Loss Tips: The Truth on Losing Body Fat and How to Achieve it!

Before I get started on some very cool fat loss tips… It’s important to cover why it is that fat loss and reducing body fat related information and products are so much in demand, yet obesity and being overweight are on the up and up – and are actually at the highest rate ever? With [...]

Home Workout Equipment that Promises You the World

It’s not uncommon for people to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars trying to find that piece of magical home workout equipment that will give them the perfect body. I have had clients in the past who have put themselves into all kinds of debt, previous to coming to me, to reach their ultimate goal [...]

What YOU Need To Know About Calorie Values

Fun and mind blowing facts about calorie values and healthy calories. Yep, I’m not going to bore you to tears with the whole concept of calories instead I want to show the difference that calories can make in your eating plan…
Info on Calorie Values :
* 1 kg of excess body fat = 7600 calories
* Fat [...]

How to Beat Late Night Snacking!

Do you find that eating the right foods and exercising just falls into place for you during the day, but as soon as the clock strikes 9.30pm you are raiding the cupboards for your late night snacking “munchies” fix?
For most folks this time of the night is when you finally get the opportunity to put [...]

“Skinny persons” Training Tips To Muscle and Weight Gain!

Ok, now before you start grumbling about me being politically incorrect for using the word “skinny” or for some reason you think all folk that are naturally slim should just be grateful and figure that they have it easy – then let me let you in on a secret… “being skinny is not always as [...]

Are You Un-intentionally Ruining Your Fat Loss Routine?

Are you training your butt off day after day, week after week, trying your best to eat right – yet you always seem to end up getting distracted finishing up so off base that you wonder why you even bother with your fat loss routine?
Then here’s something that may just ring a bell of familiarity [...]

Starting Afresh with Your Exercise Workout Routine!

Have you found yourself slowly slipping away from your exercise workout routine?
You’re spending your nights, watching tv, wearing those comfy clothes that hide your “back-slidden” training efforts while enjoying packets of chips, chocolates or whatever else you can get your hands on to fulfil the urge to comfort eat.
By the evening the inspiration [...]

3O Ways to Help You Reduce Body Fat and Get Into Shape!

If you had good intentions all season to make the effort to get into shape but just didn’t get around to it then you may like to take note of the following simple steps to help you reduce some of that extra body fat that you hoped you would have already lost by now.
Activate your [...]

10 STEPS: Eating to Reduce Body Fat… Pain Free!

1. Don’t drive yourself nuts running away from cravings
I am not saying pig out on junk everytime the thought pops into your head but on those occasions where you just can’t function because you are dreaming of that Mars Bar you so desperately need then by all means buy one, eat it and get the [...]

How to Burn More Fat and Carb Calories

Is it driving you nuts that you just can’t seem to get rid of that extra body fat that’s sitting there preventing you from your ultimate training goals? Are you racking your brains trying to figure out how you can burn more fat and carb calories?
Are you only “percentages” away from achieving that super lean [...]

The Worst Bloopers YOU Can Make When Training With Weights

When you first started training with weights you saw great results. But now your muscle tone or muscle gains have come to a screaming halt!
So what happened?
If you’re thinking about embarking on a new weight training program or just find that your lack of results has you confused and disheartened, then you may find the [...]

Are Your Food Portion Sizes Out of Control?

As you know food portion sizes play a huge role in our efforts to achieve our ultimate health and fitness goals. In fact our training results rely on up to 80% of what we eat.
Gone are the days when everyone thought “if I exercise I can eat whatever I want”. Not only is this a [...]

Fitness Valentine Disaster – Would You Be Insulted?

Now, this may seem like a silly question… Fitness valentine disaster – would you be insulted if your “Valentine” ruined your fitness efforts?
Over the years of working as a Personal Fitness Trainer, and within the fitness industry, I have seen some very emotional and upsetting reactions to Valentine’s Day and how it effects people’s fitness [...]

The Do’s and Don’ts of Butt Thigh Workouts and Other Trouble Spots

For women, more than often, trying to find those perfect butt thigh workouts  for a shapely lower body will make you insane!
For many, it’s gets to the point where it ruins your summer or affects everything from [...]