If I could have a pound for every time I’ve heard this as an excuse, I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this blog. I’d be sipping a fresh-fruit smoothie from my mansion in LA (with a gym in the basement, of course!!)
No seriously, ask yourself this; on your list of priorities, where does exercise fall? Is it even on your list? Some of you don’t exercise because you think you don’t have time. You’re waiting for your schedules to ease up, for the weather to cool off or heat up, for school to end or start, or some other future event. The truth is there’s never a right time to get moving. It’s now or never, so read on to find out how to make exercise a reality. Read the rest of this entry »
As fitness professionals we’re used to telling people about the importance of exercise. We spend less time though talking about the importance of sport. Sport can have a massive impact on people’s lives. It can dramatically improve a person’s confidence, happiness and give them a focus.
January is a popular and perfect time to set out the goals for the coming year. As with any goals, fitness goals will be specific to you. What’s going to work for one person won’t necessarily be right for you, so finding the most effective way to achieve your goals can be harder than it sounds.
I’m worried about how attached I’ve become to my iPhone. I reckon that I must pick the thing up about 50 times a day. It’s got my life in it. It wakes me up in the morning and it tells me what appointments I’ve got. I communicate through it using email, phone, text, Twitter. I manage my banking through it and I order my food through it. I’ve also got a tonne of work-related apps: BMI calculator, Bleep Test, even a musculoskeletal manual…
If you want to do better at something, whether it’s sport, fitness or losing weight then you need to work at it. Presumably that’s why we all talk about “training” to achieve our goals. But how often do we take a step back and consider exactly what we need to train, or work on, to get the improvements we want?
