How A Personal Trainer Can Help You Stay On Track This time of year, many gym members fall off the track in their Dun Laoghaire fitness routines. New Years brings a fresh sense of determination, which tends to go stale by the time Easter rolls around. People find they didn’t use their memberships nearly as much as they’d hoped. The fact of the matter is: the physical structure of a gym is not enough to…

Stick To Your Gym Resolutions The year goes by fast, doesn’t it? At this point, some of us are kicking butt at our New Year’s resolutions to get in shape, but others have given up entirely. Chances are, you may be at that do-or-die point, where you’re wondering if you should keep trying or quit your Dundrum gym membership altogether. Predictably, the answer is: Keep Going! But keep going by taking the right approach. There are several keys…

January is the hottest month to sign up for a Blackrock gym membership. There is something about the crisp, cold New Year that makes every local resident yearn for a clean slate on failed ambitions from the year before. “This year it’ll be different,” we tell ourselves. “This year, I’ll get in shape and look my best!” we say. Yet, for some odd reason, by the time May rolls around, we find we never really go to…

Make The Most Out Of Your Gym Membership Have you ever joined a gym in Blackrock only to find you really didn’t go as often as you’d hoped? Maybe your membership was three months… maybe it was six or twelve. You needn’t fret, as this scenario is more common than you may think. Many people can’t get the support they need exercising alone and find it hard to stick with a regular routine – whether they’re exercising…

COMMON TRAINING MISTAKES LEARN FROM YOUR TRAINING ERRORS TO KEEP YOUR WORKOUTS EFFECTIVE HERE ARE SOME OF THE MOST COMMON Chuck Norris is famous for saying that he never made a mistake. He reasoned that if you learn from your mistakes in order to avoid making the same ones again, they really don’t count as mistakes. Everyone will make mistakes, even the smartest trainers and athletes. That’s why they have coaches who have walked the…

WE ALWAYS HAVE CHOICES AND AT THIS TIME OF YEAR IT’S IMPORTANT TO MAKE THE BEST CHOICE POSSIBLE Christmas holidays are fast-approaching and what has been a difficult year for many is coming to an end. The office party may have been put on hold for some but there are others for whom late nights are now rolling into mornings, and each day is starting to become a bit of a blur. The Government’s recent…

BEING OVERWEIGHT IS A PROBLEM FOR MANY BUT FOR SOME PEOPLE IT’S THE OPPOSITE — THEY WOULD SIMPLY LIKE TO GAIN WEIGHT. Feeling underweight, waif-like, pencil-thin or generally scrawny touches the sensitive nerves of these people and it can lower their self-esteem and confidence. My days in the gym are often brightened up when a prospective male client comes in and wants to learn more about weights but does not want to get “too big”….

Summer is traditionally peak time for movie blockbusters and 2010 is no different. First up we had Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Prince of Persia’ , sixty-something Sylvester Stallone hit the gym hard for the upcoming ‘The Expendables’, while Bradley Cooper (left) left ‘The Hangover’ crew in Vegas to bulk up his physique as Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck in ‘The A-Team’, out this week. It is refreshing to see Hollywood’s leading men receiving press attention for getting in…

As the World Cup reaches its climax, only the best teams are left to fight for this coveted trophy. There are many others, like England and France, who have left South Africa with their tails between their legs after disappointing performances.   The post-mortems will go on for months. Heads will roll, stories from training camps will emerge and preparations and training methods will be analysed in order to try and find out what went…

It is often said weight loss is 80pc nutrition and 20pc exercise but sometimes I think it’s 110pc mental. In nutrition, it is often more dangerous for you to diet and fall off the wagon than to not diet at all. This is because not only are you losing your fat-burning lipolytic cells and gaining more fat cells when dieting, but dieting also impacts negatively on your emotional and mental states. When your head is…