What’s Your Reason?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

Over the years I’ve listened to many reasons why people want to change their body shapes and watched some of the same people make excuses why they can’t fulfill their goal.

What makes people’s intentions decline over a short period of time? Is it willpower or motivation? I’d say not because if somebody really wants something bad enough they will commit themselves through the direst of circumstances.

It’s probably to do with the persons reason in the first place, their WHY.

Some people simply don’t have a big enough reason to change. Or they haven’t got to grips with what they want and given it enough thought to what their lives could or should be like.

Once you know the real reason why you want to lose that extra weight and to tone up and be fit it is much easier to stay motivated and change your habits in order to accomplish your goal.

Make sure your reasons are big enough to warrant a change in your actions and mindset.

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Methods That Are Keeping Dieters and Gym Members Fat!

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

1. Paying no attention to the diet and expecting to burn off bad calories at the gym. 


2. Spending hours every week doing steady pace cardio in the hope it will burn fat and transform the body so it looks toned and chiselled.

3. Using ‘the more exercise duration is better’ philosophy. 


4. Using ‘the less calories the better’ philosophy. 


5. Cherry picking exercises and performing them without using principles or variables.

6. Doing the same exercise programme month after month and sometimes year after year. 


7. Doing never-ending repetitions of abdominal crunches in the hope they will flatten the tummy.

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What Makes The Difference?

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

Have you ever wondered what makes a difference in people’s lives? It isn’t always a desire or a meaningful attitude to pursue a given goal.

The difference lies in what each person knows and how he or she makes use of that knowledge.

And that is the benefit of personal training. The whole purpose of using the services of a personal trainer is to gain knowledge about what works for your goals and to prevent progress from stalling by repeating past mistakes.

After all, the reason for enquiring or wanting to hire a personal trainer is because your current efforts aren’t working. The wickedest thing you can do to yourself and your goal is not to follow the instructions you are given.

Only applied knowledge is POWER – ignore this at your peril.

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Posted on March 29, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

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How to Make Your Vegetables Last Longer

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

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1. Store onions in old tights to keep them fresh for up to eight months (tie a knot in between each one to keep them separate).

2. Chop dry green onions and store them in an empty plastic water bottle. Put the bottle in the freezer and sprinkle out what you need when you’re cooking.

3. When storing potatoes, keep them away from onions (this will make them spoil faster). Storing them with apples will help keep the potatoes from sprouting.

4. Asparagus should be stored in your fridge upright in a glass of water (like cut flowers, cut the asparagus bottoms off first), and covered with a plastic bag.

5. Store salad greens in a bowl covered with plastic wrap, and add a paper towel to help absorb moisture. A salad spinner will also help remove excess moisture — a key culprit in wilting leaves — from your greens.

6. Mushrooms should be stored in a paper bag in a cool dry place, or in the fridge. Avoid storing mushrooms in plastic, as any trapped moisture will cause them to spoil.

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How to Make Your Fruit Last Longer

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

1. Swirl berries in a mixture of one part vinegar (white or apple cider) to 10 parts water. You won’t taste the vinegar but the solution will help keep your berries from getting mouldy and soft.

2. When storing chopped avocado or guacamole, leave the pit in, spritz it with some lemon juice or olive oil, cover with plastic wrap, and put it in the fridge. This will help keep it from turning brown.

3. If you spot a rotten apple, remove it right away, as one rotten apple really can spoil the whole bunch.

4. Put plastic wrap around the crown of a bunch of bananas to keep them fresh for days longer (and be sure to store them away from other fruits, as they emit a lot of ethylene gas which accelerates ripening).

5. Store tomatoes at room temperature away from sunlight, in a single layer with the stem side up (don’t put them in plastic bags, which will cause them to spoil faster).

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There Are No Magic Pills or Quick Fix Potions

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

Being a personal trainer I constantly get badgered by reps to sell their brand of food supplements to my clients. Having experience of using supplements myself a long time ago and the ability to define between good and bad I’d like to share with you some tips about using food supplements.

First of all there are good and bad supplements. Most of what you find on the high street and mainstream websites are a waste of money and could probably cause you more harm than good. Many supplements are unhealthy versions of what they promise to be. You only have to look at the ingredients label to confirm this. Spending a little time learning about the basics about nutrition could save you a lot of time and how best to spend your money.

Good supplements on the other hand are expensive, that’s a fact. When it comes to supplements you need to know what they are and why you would want to take them. Then you need to find the best version of that supplement you can afford and do some research to see if they will best serve you long-term. If you take a supplement because you have read it is good for you it probably won’t solve your problem and could cause new problems.

Consider this, vitamins and minerals and all the other stuff that are good for us can be found in nature and our bodies are designed to ingest them within foods and not individually in high doses.

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Looking for a Therapist in The Barnsley Area

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

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How Strength Training Can Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

Strength training is an integral part of a well-rounded exercise programme, and is recommended for both sexes of all ages, including children and seniors.

The intensity of your resistance training can achieve a number of beneficial changes on the molecular, enzymatic, hormonal, and chemical level in your body, which will also help slow down (and many cases stop) many of the diseases caused by a sedentary lifestyle.

Biomarkers of aging are determinants of aging that you are capable of controlling. They’re things that tell you how old you would be if you didn’t know how old you were. This includes but is not limited to the following—all of which strength training has a beneficial impact on: strength and muscle mass, body composition, blood lipids, bone density, cardiorespiratory fitness, and gene expression.

Research has shown that strength training in the elderly reversed oxidative stress and returned gene expression in 179 genes to a more youthful level, making them 10 years “younger”.

Ideally, you’ll want to include a variety of exercises for a well-rounded fitness regimen. Strength training is an important component as it’s the number one way for you to remain strong, young, and independent well into old age.

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How To Lose Weight Quickly

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Barnsley Personal Trainer

I’m going to share with you some really sound advice that often gets ignored, typically out of fear or because of misconceptions about dieting. Providing you are following the right kind of advice then my number one rule would be: Don’t give up when you aren’t getting results.

If you’ve followed tips on this blog or in my book Photo Diet: How To Diet Using Your Smartphone on how to lose weight fast, you will sometimes feel like you want to give up. Especially at times when you feel like you are hardly losing any weight on the weighing scales. This is a moment everyone who is trying to lose weight will face. After a day of hard “losing weight work” you will look on the weighing scale and see hardly any results and feel like you are doing this all for nothing. You are wrong. These are normal weight fluctuations.

I had an email last Friday from a client who was in distress because she had put weight on. There are many factors why weight can fluctuate from day-to-day and even hour-by-hour. This is the reason why I don’t recommend getting weighed daily and obsessing about the scales. A much more effective method of measuring progress for your body composition would be to take body measurements with a good old-fashioned tape measure. No gadgets or phone apps can compete with what a tape measure will tell you.

If someone is putting all of their success down to a number it is easy to understand why someone would want to give up if the scales didn’t tell them what they wanted. Unfortunately this is common even amongst those that feel and look better as a result of what they have been doing.

I wonder how many dieters have made the mistake of quitting because they were obsessing about numbers whilst in actual fact they were making progress. Rejecting any sign that tells you what you are doing is working for the sake of the numbers not adding up is bonkers.

Back to my client, I did a follow-up email after the weekend and guess what? She got weighed on the Monday (just three days later) and she had lost six pounds. Luckily my coaching skills had paid off and she didn’t revert to her previous diet in an attempt to coup the negative reading, can you imagine? The consequences would have been disastrous.

Weighing scales may tell you you’re not making progress but how will you know if you don’t take any other measurements into consideration? It could mean the difference between quitting and achieving results. If you feel like you are making progress but the scales tell you differently stick it out! Or you will end up going around in circles and never get anywhere.

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