There is a crucial distinction between exercising and training. It can mean the difference between you the acheiver and the non-achievers in health and fitness.
It can mean the difference between frustration and elation with your results.
In Chinese philosophy life exists in balance with a ‘yin’ and the ‘yang’. The Chinese apply various characteristics to
Yang [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]