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People are becoming more and more health aware.  I also see frustration in how people feel about how their body performs on a daily basis. To have a sore lower back or a knee that gets stiff and painful after long bots form sitting can be disheartening. I’m on a mission to help people get […]

Work affecting your health should not be the case but it’s the reality for many people.  I work with people in high pressure and stressful jobs where time is in constant shortage and often under a lot of stress that can wear you down.  Prioritising your health It’s not that easy when work traditions and […]

How to minimise injury at work due to sitting down too much has been a fascination if not even a frustration of mine for quite some time. I see it often with my 1:1 clients, they have  back, neck, shoulder and knee pain. I also see tight hips and painful knees. These are areas where […]

Hm so where to start? Let’s start with some basics that any training plan should do for you regardless what your goals are and what level you are at.  A training plan should be realistic and achievable:  Very generic and probably something you’ve heard many times before but it’s true. Regardless if you are injured […]

Are you working long hours, managing people, making decisions, putting out fires, etc? Sometimes the last thing you want to do is figuring out what to do for your training session. Perhaps you find the stress of not knowing frustrating. Also its never nice to feel unproductive, specially if your time is tight as it […]

What I train for. Actually I saw a instagram post about this question and I thought it was an excellent one. I get extremely grumpy, restless when I don’t exercise. I notice that my productivity and drive gets much lower when I am not able to train. However I have quite recently (in the last […]

This is for anyone thinking about hiring a personal trainer for themselves or for someone else. How to hire a personal trainer? Don’t worry it really isn’t that difficult but I wanted to give a few tips on what to think about. When hiring a personal trainer one thing that you should always do, is […]

To feel your injuries are obstacles in your training can be extremely frustrating. The good thing is that in most cases we can reduce symptoms to even get symptom free. What you need is  good physiotherapy, the right type of training, time and patience.  What classifies as an Injury?  You might think that my sore […]

What is in shape? Here comes a pretty standard answer from me. If you have read some of my other blog posts you will recognize it. It depends on what you want to get in shape for. It’s not the direct answer most want but there is none I’m afraid.  For example if you are […]

I have on a few occasions been asked or people have assumed that I promote gym based exercise above any other form of exercise because I’m a personal trainer. So I wanted to write a blog post about what kind of training I promote. The simple answer is no I don’t put that above any […]