Sleeping this week has been a challenge for everyone, we have had fans in all the kids bedrooms and an air conditioning unit in ours just so the bedroom feels bearable! These new houses are great in the winter with all the insulation they put in, but in the summer it's like walking into a furnace when you get halfway up the stairs!! Lack of sleep feels like a kind of torture, but I have never really seen the negative effects other than tiredness. Now I measure my HRV (hear

Its hard to keep your focus when everything around you is falling apart, believe me I know! This week has been a really tough week for me and also my eldest boy. For me the week started off badly with a ‘ding’ in my car - totally my fault and just ones of those things, lets call it an expensive mistake! My training that day really suffered as my mind was obviously elsewhere but my body was also coping with the dreaded PMT which visits every 3 weeks. Gosh the things us wo

Exercising does increase my appetite, if I have had a long distance row, burning around 500-600 calories, I do tend to get off the rower much more hungrier than when I got on! If on the other hand I have completed a speedy session, the last thing I want to do is eat when I finish - these are the times when I have to force myself to fuel properly. Before my workout I mostly just have my good old porridge that is always my breakfast, I am a real creature of habit and porr

Your not happy in yourself, your health is not good, you really want to change your lifestyle and how your body looks. Well if this is the case for you, what is actually holding you back? I have quite a few enquiries every month asking for prices, hours of opening and finally, normally a short paragraph of why they want personal training. Most of the time it’s one of the reasons I’ve cited above, they sound pretty unhappy and feel they’ve got stuck in a rut. Now, unfor