Taking responsibility for your health and fitness is often the first and most crucial step on the path to your goals. It is your fault that you dug into a box of biscuits and equally shovelled down 12 pints of beer at the weekend. Equally so it is your choice that you watch mind-numbing (and ...…
As a gym owner in Maynooth I am always surprised at folks avoiding the bigger picture when it comes to fat loss. I opened the paper there the other day to see Gwyneth Paltrow sprawling over the paper saying that organic foods should be available for everyone because they are tasty and good for you. ...…
“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 ...…
With longer working hours, tighter deadlines and higher targets stress has become more common place in all our lives today. Stress in itself is good and bad in the right amounts. Too much physical stress from sunlight will get burn you. However, just enough and your mood and Vitamin D production will be lifted. It ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…