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 [...]

As a personal trainer in maynooth, I have found that it is widely accepted in the fitness and fat loss community that the more a food product places on marketing, hype, colourful packaging and ‘in-your-face’ labelling the worse it is for your waist line.
Take for instance Breakfast Cereals. Advertising budget of millions. Characters to sell [...]

It is obvious when you have been working as a personal trainer in Dublin for 5 years alongside working with hundreds of clients that a calorie is not just a calorie.
I love the calorie debate.
Eat less (consume less calories than you need to run the engine) and do more exercise.
Simple. How many times have we [...]

Fall seven times, get up eight.” - Japanese Proverb
“Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.” - Winston Churchill
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” - Samuel Johnson
These quotes all say the same thing. No matter how many obstacles you run into, what matters is that you’re able to overcome each of them, [...]

Is it possible to enjoy one or two pints or glasses of wine within a health and fitness lifestyle? I believe you can. The problem comes when you are looking to lose fat.
You see alcohol is empty or dead calories. And no matter what you say when you are looking to lose fat then totalling [...]