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 ...…
If I told you that to win a million euros you had to jump out of an aeroplane, I am sure some of you would overcome your objections, fears, excuses of heights and whatever it took to fling yourself from a moving plane. Fat loss is no different. The task is not impossible. It just ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
You know when it comes to weight gain most of us think that it is just simply the problem of too much ‘through the old cake hole’ and not enough moving around. I use to think that too. But the more I worked with people on this, the more I concluded that there is far ...…
If you want to gain weight then do what the masses are doing at the moment. Is there any wonder that chronic degenerative disease is on the rise. Drugs will soon be dispensed like ‘pick and mix’ and very few of us actually ‘live’ on our terms. I and I am sure you would prefer ...…