Not making much progress in losing weight, or on a slow train in attaining your strength and fitness goals? You think you have problems? Take a look at someone who could have had plenty to complain about, but took a different approach: David Weir, the British and World Champion Paralympic champion who won [...]

Cortisol, a catabolic hormone is not to be confused with cortisone, a similar sounding compound with similar genesis and function. Cortisol increases blood sugar, suppresses the immune system and aids in fat, protein and carbohydrate metabolism. Basically, it’s the body’s emergency fight or flight response system to extreme stress or imminent danger. [...]

Endorphins make us feel good. The word ‘Endorphin’ is a combination of ‘endogenous’ and ‘morphine’: these endogenous opioid peptides are the body’s own internally produced morphine and produce an opiate effect. Endorphins are polypeptides and function as neurotransmitters: produced in the pituitary gland and hypothalalamus they are released into blood, spinal cord and brain.

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Motivation is the key part to succeeding not only in fitness and weight loss but to succeed in life in general.  Motivation can be created in many different ways.  In life people who tend to have the most drive, tend to want something a lot so are fighting to get it, the more you want [...]

Following our last posts on goal setting I thought it would be interesting to discuss the psychology side of losing weight. Psychology of weight loss is so important because if you don’t have this right you will not lose weight.
Many men and women who are overweight tell people they don’t care about being overweight that [...]

Most of us have fitness and weight loss goals but often get prevented from reaching them, what stops us?

To reach a goal you have to really want it, the people who get the best results are people who’s goals mean so much to them.  If a skinny 14 year old has been picked on all [...]

In freediving, as in any sport, there is always going to be a day when every smallest event, from the moment you wake up, seems designed to throw you off by means of frustration or distraction.
Whether it’s negative incidents, or just your mood casting a dark shadow, the reaction is the same: that voice, that [...]