Eat every 2-4 hours- keeping the body fed regularly ensures that it doesn’t go into starvation mode storing what you eat as fat.  Eating regularly will not only give you more energy as the body uses what you eat predominantly as energy but will stop it being stored as fat.
Drink water regularly through out the [...]

MMA is now a huge TV broadcasted sport, and many young men today want to get a body like the MMA fighters they are seeing on TV, but how do they achieve these bodies?  MMA fighters are generally muscular and lean.  They do a combination of weight training and cardiovascular training.  MMA fighters would train [...]

Cortisol is a corticosteroid hormone aka “Stress Hormone” produced in the adrenal gland, it is involved in response to stress and anxiety.  Cortisol increases blood sugar levels, increases blood pressure and reduces immune system responses.  This is one hormone that we really need to control.  In most peoples modern lives they suffer from cortisol being [...]

Allot of people who are a bit hard up at the moment tell me their diet is suffering because they can’t afford the good foods, this shouldn’t be a problem even when times are hard there is no reason you can’t get good sources of protein.  Below is a list of cheap good quality protein [...]

A client of mine at Personal training studios W10 asked me recently “How strict does my diet really need to be to reach my goals?” this was following her recently reading an article by a London personal trainer saying what to avoid eating at christmas.  Many personal trainers give their clients extremely strict diet advice [...]

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 [...]

How does your diet change during the winter period?  I know that when it gets cold I tend to eat a lot more.  In the summer I often find it hard to eat and sometimes end up eating as little as 2 meals a day.  Diet is easily affected by the weather.  When it’s cold [...]

Below are some common fat loss myths many people believe today.

Wearing a bin bag in the sauna is a great way to burn fat- will make you lose body water no fat, also quite dangerous if your not careful.
Not eating is a great way to lose weight- you lose muscle mass and end up putting [...]

The most common goal of most people who come to Personal training studios W10 is to burn fat.  I have put together a few fat burning tips to help you burn fat over the winter, a time when lots of us end up putting on the pounds.

Do cardio training for minimum 20 minutes (body breaks [...]

Nowadays, supermarkets are aware that to sell products they need to put signs on products that people don’t want to buy because they are fattening saying “low fat” or “lower fat” but what does that actually mean.  ”Lower fat” can mean it is just slightly lower fat than previously but on a product like butter [...]