How to squeeze in all tasks you need to stay healthy and in shape as you get older. — I should apologize to my kids, but I just can’t. They’d never respect me again. You see I’ll occasionally berate them for not knowing the song they’re listening to loudly is just a cover of a (better) version that was out when I was their age. Deep down they truly…

Calm your jets, fellas. Less is more. — Guys CAN multi-task after all, because we can be awesome and dumb at the same time. Awesome by tackling things head-on, no messing about, let’s fix this. Dumb because we confuse the quantity of energy and effort put into a task with the quality of actual work. I could take…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…