I watched my eldest son yesterday spend the best part of 30 minutes practicing his kicking with a rugby ball. It was a great day at the park. Sun was shining and the ball was flying around like a rocket. I kept asking him if he wanted to play on the swings but he said [...]
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Lessons in Health and Fitness from Generations
I did a talk this week to a local business who were quite an active bunch. It got onto the whole ‘processed food’ debate. I was trying to link it into the whole ‘what’s healthier a jaffa cake or an orange’ and ‘what’s going to give you more energy and life as a result?’ I [...]
The 1st Meal Principle
I suppose it is a reflection of our times that rarely will anyone ‘make time’ for breakfast any more. I mean I have to literally beg people to get up a little early to make a nutritious breakfast. Sometimes it is like asking them to pull teeth. “I want you to have a little protein [...]
Price List – January 2011
Price List as of Jan 2011 Sphere Fitness Price Sheet
Sugar Coated Fitness – Why it is Scuppering Your Fitness Plans
Maybe you want to lose weight or just unleash a new healthier and lighter you. Whatever your reasons the why has to be strong. There is little wonder however that this becomes a little unnerving when I read in this papers and official publications that gardening and housework is somehow classed as exercise. Maybe it [...]
Why the Low Carbohydrate Life Could Be for You
If you are like a large portion of the population, you do not tolerate carbohydrate very well. Do you carry fat around your waist, back and belly button? Yes – well listen up. You need to restrict your carbohydrate intake. What is carbohydrate? Carbohydrates are a source of nutrients that are found in our foods. [...]
How to Not Balloon On Your Holiday
As you arrive at the airport there is always something you think you have forgotten. Let the cat out? Check. Unplugged the TV? Check. Packed the Kid’s Suncream? Check. Packed an anorak and suitable concealing clothing? Check. I just got back from my ‘RnR’ there this week. And it was just that - a time [...]
Fast Fitness
Well, I have to admit that to thank the Japanese for fat loss would be a slight exaggeration. However, they are responsible for one pleasant, or not so pleasant chap called Professor Tabata who has made working out, training, exercise or whatever you want to label it as an excuse of the past. The phrase [...]
Ketosis and The Low Carb Approach Bad Rap
Aaahhhh!! The K Word or the forbidden dietary conundrum. Yes it shouldn’t be used by uncontrolled type 1 diabetics, pregnant women or those with an existing kidney condition. But for the vast majority of us it is perfectly safe. Ketosis is as Lyle MacDonald states “the shifting of carbohydrate to fat as the body’s preferred [...]
Never Set a Resolution
Does it seem that you find yourself setting New Years resolutions every year and yet be caught in the same vicious circlecome next year writes personal trainer in Dublin John Lark. Here is how tobreak the mould and actually get where you need to go. It seems everywhere I look the word‘resolution’ is staring me [...]




