I've always loved the Charles Barkley quote that goes along the lines of: "I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena" and in the past 8-10 weeks I have received a lot of praise for the work we have done while being closed While also hearing some criticism, on the ole grapevine of course, that I didn't handle it well and that I'm Mr. Bad Busine

Of course there are a lot of "tricks" and "secrets" to weight loss and getting the body you want. But one thing that should be talked about a lot more is the idea of eating more food volume for less calories. and this is something Lorraine has been pushing last week and it has been getting great feedback. We all have little things that can set us off. Such as needing something with your cuppa in the evenings... GUILTY <<< And/ or needing random snacks here or there throughout

I remember reading an article from Paul Mort. He's one of my "Go To" guys for keeping my head on straight and dealing with stress/ negativity etc. In this article he said about how watching comedy helps him chill out when going through stress. And it got me to thinking about what I watch on TV. It's a lot of sport (apart from now obviously) and then all the other shows are usually along the lines of goodies versus baddies and drug dealing etc. While entertaining neither are g

As a new parent I can now see how cartoons are the greatest invention EVER. Jamie is starting to get into Baby Bums and man is it great to keep him entertained. He sees these big headed babies running about and then his little arms and legs are going 100 miles an hour as if he is trying to chase after them. so it's great that way. Of course then you just have to be careful not to get into "Lazy parenting" and have him sat there all day. We are really lucky throughout all this

With Alan away to Australia and Sharon out of action for a few weeks it has been all hands on deck this past while Thankfully we will be back to business as normal soon enough But I always like getting back in and taking a few extra sessions now and again as that's what we get into fitness for actually training people and sometimes that can be forgotten about with all the day to day business stuff that goes with it But something that I have noticed the past few weeks and spok

I can't for the life of me imagine myself doing ANYTHING for a period of 8-12 weeks that I find beneficial for myself in any sort of way and then just randomly jacking it in Unless something tragic and really out of the blue happened in my life But I guess it's human nature and something that comes with the territory Every now and then in the gym someone will come and they are REALLY down Fed up with their weight Fed up with their poor energy levels Fed up with "Trying everyt

Summer 2018 one of the young football lads wanted to do a gym session so he came out to the house and we did a session together He would do some gym work but not be a "gym rat" like you or I So for my amusement I added in some Bulgarian Split Squats Knowing full well that in his little innocence he had no idea what was coming the next day or 2 or 3 He kept pace rightly and was well fit to lift respectable weights The next evening we had footie training and I felt a little st

Last year I did a little personal development course It was interesting and I found it good but didn't feel I really needed anything more from it than what I got or to progress to the next course When looking at these courses and reading books etc you do find that a lot of the people are really all over the shop to begin with Highly stressed Worrying about impressing someone (Mother, father, friends etc) Getting little to no sleep Little to no exercise and diet is all over th

One cool thing I seen on my FB wall for the New Year was fitness guys talking about their Failures over the past 12 months These would be guys I follow and respect their opinions One is an Aussie guy who has 20 plus gyms across Australia but admitted that he closed 6 Yes, SIX gyms in the past 12 months He didn't get into detail on exactly why but obviously they just weren't working out The other is an English guy who really helped my business and how I structure things this y

I've never been a conspiracy theorist and like to give people the benefit of the doubt when at all possible But cynicism seems to be something that comes with age and you start to understand why older people can be so cynical all the time When you see so much drug cheating in sport and get to hear some of the dodgy inner workings of "successful" people or businesses then it's hard not to get a little cynical So while it's important to try to remain positive and looking at goo

Every time I go to a Fitness course and guys are making the example of a client doing such and such Her name is always Mary So I received this email last week from a Personal Training client me and Lorraine have been working with  and seeing as she want's to keep her name out of it Let's call her Mary Here's what "Mary" had to say Hello Lorraine, Just looking back on goals when I started PT so happy that I going in the right direction. August goals -Goals are im

It's always funny to see "willing victims" in social media land giving out about having to see someones posts or look at someone Well then don't follow them or go on to their page if they drive you that nuts And last week I received this lovely email from me new BFF Gary Stop ducking spamming me and remove me from.your mailing list you irritating hunt NOTE: He didn't say Ducking and he didn't say Hunt but due to spam filters I'm changing those words slightly When I looked him

Bit of a longer email for you this morning So give yourself an extra few minutes for reading it If it's an extra few minutes in bed Having your cuppa Or sitting on the bowl for your early morning business ^^^^^^ It's all good Credit for this post goes to Mike Samuels who is another dude I follow for all things related to writing emails and running a business it's long so I will get straight into it but while he is referring to business and material BS The EXACT same philosoph

Last Saturday week back the GAA club organised a Coaching Day where the senior players and management coached the Juvenile teams In fairness it went well and I made sure to drop in with the 15's and 17's to avoid the madness of U 10's and below Other than helping out with a team last year a few times it's been a long time since I have been heavily involved And as things got busier with the business it had to be knocked on the head And I decided that I would just do my own tra

They say that suicides are highest around Xmas time Due to the fact that we are SUPPOSE to be happy and everyone around us is "happy" which of course is rarely the case and unfortunately people fall into this BS I'm no Mental Health expert and don't claim to be one but have done a few Personal Development courses over the years And read plenty of books/ podcasts etc and have picked up a few things And working in this game it's obviously a big part of it as it's a big mental g

Our Online Nutrition Program is up and running now today and we are looking forward to changing some mind sets regarding Diet & Nutrition I pushed it hard as wanted to see how it would go and also get rid of anyone on this list who's just lurking about and it managed to run off pretty well even though I didn't get as many cranky "Stop emailing me you Muppet" type emails as I thought so maybe I wasn't aggressive enough Something to think about for again though... Anyhoo, Thoug

One Diet principle I have learnt over the years (Mainly from living with Lorraine) is that you have to ask yourself Is this worth it? Is this slice of cake worth the 300 odd calories (obviously depends on the cake but some could even be up to 500 calories) When you have a set number of calories to stick to every day such as say 1500 then you have just used up a chunk of your calories there and then Of course sometimes it is worth it For me a nice little stack of Ore

So for the next 2 weeks I'm going to take a little push towards Diet & Nutrition in these emails There are 2 reasons for this: 1 - It is a massive area that is holding a lot of people back from making any steady progress 2 - We have an Online Nutrition coaching program starting on the 30th of September and we are taking 5 people on board for it and only 5 as Lorraine will be working with these people 1-2-1 via email and she is pregnant so if I land her with 20 odd people I sh

I once bought a Nutri bullet for a girlfriend for Xmas when debating to clients during a Nutrition chat that January that it's handy in an emergency and telling them about my purchase 3 different ladies in 3 different conversations commented back "I hope you bought her something else" With that sort of "Are you stupid" look going on To be honest I got it cause she asked for it and I can't remember if I did buy something else or not but I don't remember getting it hopped off m

I'm starting to really believe that everything is perception and how we view things Some people jump at the chance to have a good piss and moan about anything they can Yet there's other people you could go for a pint with and they would hardly say a bad word about anyone all night One thing that be bloody annoying over the warmer summer weather is the amount of flies about the place And while they can be very irritating it's very easy to turn it on it's head and look at the p