CELEBRITIES HAVE AN ENTOURAGE OF CHEFS AND TRAINERS TO HELP THEM STAY THIN.  DON’T BE DUPED IF YOU WANT TO SLIM DOWN, THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GO ABOUT IT….. It often angers me to see how magazines and TV programmes push the ideal of a size zero. It puts enormous pressure on women to compete with their celebrity idols in the figure stakes. But while the celebrity can call upon a full-time chef,…

Too many nights on the beer and sedentary lifestyles are turning men into women. With firm pecs being replaced by saggy man boobs, it’s time for guys to take action.  The author of Paleo Diet, Loren Cordain,says that the DNA of man has only changed 0.02pc in the last 40,000 years. However, sometimes you’d never guess this, especially if you visit a gym. The term “moobs”, or man boobs, is used to describe the transformation…

MANY FITNESS ROUTINES PRACTISED IN IRELAND TODAY ARE OUT-DATED AND LARGELY INEFFECTIVE.  HERE IS ADVICE ON A PROGRAMME DESIGNED TO GIVE YOU THE RESULTS YOU DESERVE. As a strength coach and personal trainer for the past 13 years, I have witnessed not only the explosion of the Celtic Tiger Ireland but also the rising levels of obesity and expanding waistlines in this country. During this period of time businesses became more streamlined to deliver products…

A warm-up mismatched to your fitness routine is not just ineffectual, it can lead to strains and injuries. Here is advice on how to get it right.  A WARM-UP is an accepted part of life in the modern world — you warm-up your car to prevent accelerated wear and breakdown, a chef warms-up the oven before cooking.  People seem to know a lot about warming up cars and ovens, but not much about exercise. They…

It’s tempting to let your fitness routine slip when work takes you away and there’s no gym around, or if you’re stuck at home with the children, but a few easy-to-do exercises will keep you ticking over.  ALL YEAR my clients are faced with challenges that threaten consistent training.  It is this consistency that will yield results when it comes to building a better body. The problem affects everyone, from business executives on over seas…

IT’S EASY TO RELAX IN A GYM, WITH TV SCREENS AND RECLINING BIKES ON WHICH TO READ YOUR PAPER BUT, TO GET FIT, YOU NEED TO MAKE AN EFFORT IF you were to take a step back in time to the gyms of the 196O, you would see an entirely different scene to the one that greets you today. In the gyms of yesteryear, there were no fancy LCD screens above treadmills, no reclining bikes…