Not getting the pay-off you feel your healthier choices and hunger deserve? This could be why… — When the weight on the scales refuses to budge, even though we feel like we’ve been doing our best, then the clock is ticking… We give ourselves ultimatums: If it’s still the same next week then f*ck it, I give up, I’m broken. Next week when there’s still no change…

How to improve workouts with the right music choice — I enjoy blasting out Guns n Roses through my headphones in the gym as much as any Dad of 3 in his mid-40s having a mid-life crisis… but when I read one quote from an expert in the field of music and exercise, Costas Karageorghis at Brunel University in London…

No goals. No expectations. — Climbing Everest is the equivalent of going up 44,250 stairs. Now imagine you were climbing it, and after every single step you looked up at the summit, and shouted: WHY IS IT STILL SO BLOODY FAR AWAY?! You’d be lucky to make it to 1,000 steps before giving up, convincing…

The data doesn’t lie. These 3 main mistakes are keeping people out of shape. — You’d be surprised how much overweight people work out. It’s a lot. I mean the cliché is that folks are overweight because they “just don’t move enough”, they have a sedentary lifestyle, etc. And yet of the men and women in their 40s and 50s who recently used a Calories…

Some folks are beyond help. Don’t be one of them. — I’ve been training folks for over 15 years, but sadly I still cannot change the laws of thermodynamics so you can live on take-out, Pringles, and wine and still lose weight. I also do not know any Magical Exercises that are genuinely fun, don’t cause an uncomfortable burn in your…

#2 Hardcore programs are like dating a nymphomaniac — I wish I’d appreciated more how my body worked like clockwork in my 20s, but you take it all for granted right? And now after 40 when we’ve 101 plates to spin and a body that seems to argue with you more and more, it is harder to get in…

Should you ditch all your pills and potions too? — It was when I couldn’t remember what pills I’d taken already that day that I realized I had a problem. Namely, I was taking too many bloody supplements, spending over $100 a month on things I wasn’t even sure were ‘working’. As such, my planned vacation to France was well-timed…

Getting through the hard times helped me build a happy, long-term relationship with exercise. — I’ve been married for 22 years but I’ve been hopelessly in love with Working Out for even longer. Don’t worry, my wife knows. Working Out and I have been together for over 30 years, yet so many folks struggle to stick to a 6-week training program, let alone stay in…

The surprising effects of a lazy French vacation on my creativity, and mental clarity. — Most of my life is spent on my Big Hamster Wheel. Keep going, keep working, keep getting sh*t done, keep being a taxi for my 3 kids, keep fixing things around the house I have neither the tools nor skills to fix. Your life is probably similar. And for most…