Winter Fitness Training – The Right Equipment Will Keep You Safe

With the clocks changing, the wind picking up, and the rain and snow coming down, it can be very easy to let your training programs slide and lose touch with your fitness goals.
But with a little motivation, and some strategies for making the best of the weather and the darkness, you can keep going through [...]

Get In The Gym And Make the Most of Indoor Training

When it’s just too cold or wet to train outdoors…
If you are a ‘fair weather trainer’, or you live where you don’t get many opportunities to get outside to train during the winter months, don’t worry.  You can keep your fitness plan on track, and reach your fitness goals, and do the majority of your [...]

Strength Training – Fitness versus Form

When we start out on a new training regimen, whether it’s to lose weight, get fitter, or be able to compete better at our favorite sports, we tend to focus on training hard to get stronger, faster, or fitter. We are ready to put in the hours, the miles, and the sweat to get to [...]

Does Pain while Training Mean it’s Time to Stop? – Part 2

‘No pain no gain’. We’ve all heard it. But is it true? Does fitness training have to hurt, and when it does, how can you learn to keep going and push through that ‘pain barrier’? Well, first of all, sometimes pain is a bad sign, and you shouldn’t try to push through it. See my [...]

Does Pain while Training Mean it’s Time to Stop? – Part 1

Exercise can hurt for a variety of reasons – some are nothing to worry about, and others are a sign to stop immediately. The trick is to know the difference, to know when to quit and when to push on. Part of this knowledge comes from experience.
With regular training, you will get to know what [...]

Active Recovery – What Does It Mean?

Active recovery is an essential part of getting fit. You’ll doubtless have heard about the importance of rest – after all, you get fit through the adaptations your body makes to exercise while it recovers, not through the exercise itself. But whilst you can recover by not doing anything and simply resting, you can actually [...]

Does Pain while Training Mean it’s Time to Stop? – Part 3

You’re out for a run, and you hit ‘that hill’. You know what’s going to happen – your legs will start to feel heavy, your lungs will burn, your pace will slow, and you will call on every ounce of inner strength to make it to the top. You count your steps, your count your [...]

Setting Fitness Goals, Then Make Them Work!

Setting Fitness Goals? Running your first marathon for that special charity? Entered a ‘Try a Tri’? Signed up for a long distance bike ride?  These are the kinds of events that often get us motivated to really get focused on getting fit and organizing our training.  You choose your event, get registered, mark it on [...]