8th May 2025

They’re all just blueprints | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

It's a pretty common conversation I have with people before they first start where they tell me that what they think they need in order to get in the shape

7th May 2025

They were all things that were available | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

When members cancel, I'll usually ask them, amongst other things, what else they felt they would have benefited in getting from us. What was missing for them essentially. A lot of people

6th May 2025

Make the odds forever in your favour | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

I was talking some members in the club yesterday about how essentially you can still get ill (or worse) even if you do everything possible to look after yourself. And this

5th May 2025

“Do you know what else is a pain in the @rse?” | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

I'm sure you know that I often recommend tracking our food accurately with an app like MyFitnessPal, as, at least, the start of a process to highlight some relatively easy

4th May 2025

The problem with the “Law of attraction” | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

You may or may not have heard of the law of attraction. The top Google result defines it as "a philosophy suggesting that positive thoughts bring positive results into a person's

3rd May 2025

Try swapping these two words around | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

It's very easy to constantly defer what needs to be done to achieve the results that we desire. To put those things off until "tomorrow". "Next week". "Next month". "After the holidays". "When things have

1st May 2025

The easiest way to “boost your metabolism” | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

Over the last few days I've talked about several misleading statements you may have heard with relation to affecting energy usage and your "metabolism". All vaguely rooted in scientific fact but

30th April 2025

The afterburn effect? | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

These things that are kinda true but not really just keep coming, don't they? Here's another that I distinctly remember thinking "How does that work?" when I first heard it. "This workout

29th April 2025

Not eating enough / starvation mode? | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

Having given it some thoughts I've actually found some more 'kind of true but not as true as we think' things. Things that have a central element that is valid but

28th April 2025

Eating little and often? | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

Over the last few days I've covered a number of things that are based in something that is true but that have been exaggerated or misconstrued to the point of

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