Training Tools

I need to tell you about my new app! Don’t get confused this is not a gadget blog - oh well it might be today. This is a great training tool and I’ve only used it a few times but I love it.

Food & TV

This week I have had a few ideas of what to write about and share with you, the beautiful reader. I thought about discussing the benefit of Core Training or maybe different training methods like MAF which I’ve touched on before. But with much consideration, it has to go back to my first love, food!

Improving Bike Fitness

As some of you might know, I’ve been out of training with a knee problem. But finally the Physio has given me the green light to test out my knee and after a short run and a cycle, I’ve come through unscathed (well, a few little niggles but I’m sure I’m just being hypersensitive) I gather as long as I take it easy and build up some strength slowly I should be fine.

Circuit Training

Next week is the start of my Circuit Training class. I have my checklist: the venue is booked, I’m insured up to the eyeballs (so please don’t trip and hurt yourself on purpose!) and I have a licence to play music - SO all I need now are some pupils!!

Ironman: The Beginning

Ironman….wait for it…140.3 miles - a 2.4 mile swim, followed by 112 miles on your bike and let’s not forget the small matter of running a marathon too, so that’s another 26 odd miles!!!


Now if you’re an elite athlete you can look at a sub 10 hour time… If you’re in great shape, you’re looking for a sub 12 hour time… and for everyone else, the aim is sub 17 hours (This is when they take down the finishing line, the flags and bunting - close up and go home.) No medal, no glory!

Trying to deal with my Injury

I’m lame, injured, broken! I’m no good - just throw me on the scrap pile with the other cripples. C’mon body, why aren’t you working?!


Ok, a little over the top I know, but I’m frustrated, angry at myself - all I want to do is run, run, run and run a little more.

I better explain before you think I’ve gone completely mad…

How to Eat: Small Changes, big difference

Okay, so I love food as much as the next person and I believe it’s one of life’s true pleasures.  But when I tipped the scales at X, I realized my enthusiasm for food had gone a little too far and my days as a couch potato were numbered...

...   Exercise alone wasn’t enough – I soon realized that it was no good pounding the streets and hitting the weights whilst munching on pizzas and burgers...So I made a few SIMPLE changes to my diet, which have helped me to lose over 3 stone!

Keep reading for my TOP TIPS to losing weight alongside your exercise regime – it’s EASIER than you may think!

Get Motivated

HOW many of you have you cringed at your holiday snaps – and vowed to get in shape for next Summer...?

HOW many of you make a resolution to join a gym every New Year...?

HOW many of you have been so puffed out running for the bus, you are determined to get off the couch and get fit...?

Any of these sound familiar? WHY do so many of us have such good intentions to get fit – but are so useless when it actually comes to doing it? Why is it so difficult to get going?

Well read on and find out – It might just push you into contacting me, or someone else to finally take control and feel FANTASTIC!

My First Bonk

I think this will disappoint you, this is not about the summer of ‘95 but rather a cold, wet day cycling around Sussex and Kent. I had signed up for the ‘Tour De Weald’ a 100 mile bike ride starting and finishing at Burgess Hill. The day didn’t start out well, missed my train at Victoria and my friends on it, this meant I would be riding solo. The weather was, wet, windy, cold everything you didn’t want. The course was empty and a lot of people had dropped out, out of pure luck I bumped into a couple of people I knew and off we went picking up another make it a group of four.

Porn Star Butt

Again it’s not what you think! After having a consultation with a client who wanted to work her bum and thighs more, I wanted to find some new and fun exercises. So a quick search on ‘youtube’ I found Scott Harman and his workout ‘How to get a Porn Star Butt and Hollywood Thighs’. I couldn’t help myself.

Muscle Adaptation with Aerobic Training

The body is an amazing thing, the more I learn about it the more I am astonished at the way it works and changes. You can spend hours looking at the skeletal system, the nervous system, circulation and respiration systems. Looking at the muscles of the body these are split into 3 types: Skeletal muscle, Smooth muscle and Cardiac muscle.