Times are changing and none more so that in the Irish personal training industry. In the last 10 years there has sprung a huge divide between those who get personal training and those who don’t. In that respect, conforming to the stereotypical shout and holler, steel- steel faced and uncompromising personal trainer is dying a [...]

Our obsessions with what the scales read are now a firm imprint on our daily lives. The medical community thrust the BMI scale upon us and tell us what degree of obesity we are.
Discussions around the dinner table, at work, with relatives and now even with child revolve around ‘how much you weigh / have [...]

So the New Year has bought with it promises of dramatic change and Spartan-like dedication to the task in hand – your health and fitness levels.
To make this easy I want to make this as simple as possible.
Here is a list of what I believe to be the best steps you can take this year [...]

Even as a personal trainer with so many conflicting debates, diet books, fads and approaches it seems an almost impossible task to wade through it all.
Where do you begin and more importantly what are you aiming for or looking to achieve?
Like training and any fat loss goal, it pays to have the end result in [...]

Ok – so you are on a health programme and Xmas is now ‘in the way’ of your progress and you will inevitably put on about 10lbs in the space of a day and that will be it. Game over. Job done. I am out of here. Health on the back burner – again as [...]

In a world of short-cuts is there really a quick route to getting the body of your dreams?
As always it depends. It will depend on your goals – figure athlete or general health and well-being? Sports athlete or armchair athlete?
I have NEVER seen anyone get results without 5 Hours of exercise a week and 90% [...]

With the swine flu hitting fever pitch and the flu season into the Champions League stages it seems appropriate that now is the time to be proactive in your health.
As pioneering health and medicinal Doctor Antoine Bechamp once wrote, it is the ‘terrain’ rather than the ‘germ’ that makes us ill.
Meaning, we are surrounded by [...]

In our age obsession with weight loss and fat loss are we missing the bigger picture here writes Dublin based Personal Trainer, John Lark?
I believe we are. And seeing through this will mean a) less stress in trying to get to your target weight and b) LIVING rather than worrying about the scales say minute [...]

Is there more to the old adage that to lose weight you must simply eat more and do less writes Dublin Personal Trainer, John Lark. In this article we explain how a simple strategy could literally knock pounds off you without doing anything dramatic to your current nutritional habits
Well, yes and no.
Consume fewer calories than [...]

John Lark, personal trainer in dublin provides us with a unique look at how sleep may be the missing piece in the jig-saw puzzle.
Imagine if there was one strategy that could literally ignite your fat loss efforts and required little more than putting your head down on a warm, snug and inviting pillow and getting [...]