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So many people will say that they don’t have time to do any exercise. But why is this? How long do we need? An hour? What about preparation and cool down, shower time? It soon mounts up! Yes, guidelines state that we should get, let’s say, 30 minutes of vigorous exercise every other day, or…

How often have I been ill in the last couple of years? Five, ten even? What about my friends in the running club or bootcamp buddies. A day or two a year, that would be a lot. The thing is, keeping fit all isn’t about six-packs, guns and lifting heavy. Keeping fit isn’t about running

I’d spent about a month doing pretty much nothing else but press-ups every morning. I had a simple routine which I knew really well, and all I was doing was making it more and more intense as time went by. But I got bored with it, and stopped altogether for a while. Now I feel

At the beginning of lockdown I decided I wanted to come out of the other end a better person. I did not want to sit and watch TV, eating and drinking more then I should. I don’t drink alcohol anyway but Coke, Fanta and the like are great belly builders too! I did an online

It’s Monday morning and I have just sat down to write my daily blog and post it up to my website. As I started I just wanted to check my e-mails and facebook, but No internet! Nothing! Nada! This does not feel at all comfortable Now I feel really quite alone and vulnerable, it feels

We hear it all the time don’t we? You really should drink more water. But why is this? What benefits do we get from doing so? Well, here are six of the best: 1 – You are less likely to suffer from health problems, and have lowered risk of kidney stones, urinary and colon cancer,

Starting anything new can sometimes be really quite daunting. Often you have little or no experience in what you are about to undertake. The future is not as clear as it once was. You may have niggling doubts as to whether what you are about to do is really for the best But what if

So, you are a few days or even weeks into your new fitness regime. You have started to feel a little (or even a lot) better in yourself By now I reckon you may well have had a go at pretty much all the machines and equipment in the gym. Or maybe looked at some

You know what it’s like. You have an endless list of stuff that you need to get done. At the top of the list is something like “Call my Coach” All of a sudden hanging the washing out is a massive priority Out goes the washing. The Coach waits. But there’s a few plates that

I have been talking to a number of people over the last few days about all sorts of things and have been quite struck by the number and variety of barriers that come up to prevent progress. This got me thinking. How can a Personal Trainer in Northampton help? Most people understand that it makes