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How To Make Exercise A Habit You Stick To
by Zack Cahill
Everyone has days when getting to the gym seems like a mammoth task. Luckily, science can help. Here are our favourite scientifically proven methods for how to make exercise a habit you stick to for life. The truth is motivation kind of sucks. The idea that you need to get yourself psyched up for every workout is … Continue reading
Six Things We’ve Learned From The Lockdown
by Zack Cahill
1 – You can get a workout in anywhere. For three weeks now we’re been delivering all of our training “virtually”, using apps like Zoom and FaceTime. We’ve had clients doing lateral raises with plastic bags full of almond milk, squatting with rucksacks of books and shuttle running in their gardens. And we’ve broken others with nothing but their own … Continue reading
Something Positive In All This
by Zack Cahill
Well here we are. Didn’t things change quickly? This is an embarrassing confession, but I was completely behind the ball on this. A few weeks ago I was having Sunday lunch with my mate Dan. As he drenched his hands with sanitiser he asked if I thought we’d shut the gym down. It seemed ridiculous to me. I found the … Continue reading
Can You Really “Boost” Your Immune System?
by Zack Cahill
Good old Facebook making a bad situation worse. Bad enough that there’s a pandemic. Bad enough people are freaking out and buying toilet paper like it’s an actual sh*tting disease and not a nasty flu. But Facebook have to go and pour petrol on the bonfire by spreading nonsense. You’ll have seen the posts; spurious ways to “boost your immune … Continue reading
Are There “Bad” Exercises?
by Zack Cahill
I just typed “Bad Exercises” into google and got 268 million results. Now, I can’t say I read all 268 million of them, but I clicked on quite a few and had a good scroll. What I found was a lot of repetition, with the same exercises coming up again and again. Which could mean everyone is copying each other out … Continue reading
The Curse of The Third Thursday
by Zack Cahill
The third Thursday in January. That’s when most people quit the gym. That’s when the majority of new gym members throw in the towel. They don’t even make it a whole month. That’s last week! It’s all over already. Nutrition wise, people tend to hold out a little longer. The dining app FourSquare identified an annual “fall off the wagon day”, … Continue reading
