Welcome to The Club Gym Group Personal Training My name is Simon Kennedy and I am 1 of the owners and head trainers at The Club. Ive been in the fitness industry for 14 years now and I’ve had the pleasure of helping hundreds of people...
#1 - Don't keep your trigger foods at home! Okay so this may be an obvious one but it's so important to make sure you don't keep large quantities of comfort food at home. If you do then you're more likely to binge! My trigger...
Sprint, rest and repeat. Maybe the simplest training routine you’re likely to hear, but science shows it could also be the most effective. High Intensity Interval Training typically involves exercising at a high intensity for 50 to 90 seconds followed by a period of low...
5 excuses people use to not exercise – and reasons why they’re wrong ‘I HATE exercise’ No one hates ALL types of exercise. There’s bound to be something that you enjoy doing that counts as exercise. It doesn’t have to be the gym – although weight training...
Let me take you back five years...
Who has a cupboard/box/drawer with a secret stash full of snacks like sweets, chocolate, crisps or whatever else you’re easily tempted by?! I used to. If there’s food like this in the house, I’m tempted to eat it. When I give in and have that ‘one...
Something that I get asked a lot (90% of the time from my female clients) is should I be lifting heavy weights or should I just keep it lighter? So an old quote I heard a few years ago, unsure of who it was again but...
I’ll start on Monday…we’ve all said it at some point, right? After binge eating and drinking over the festive period, I sometimes fancied the idea of getting a six pack and becoming a “fit chick”. For about three years I made the new years resolution to...
Ok so here’s one for you ladies! Whether or not women should be training upper body is something I get asked all the time. “I don’t want to train my upper body because I don’t want to look ‘manly’” “I want to work on my legs, so...
I am very pleased to be covering the most frustrating and backwards phenomenon I know of in the health and fitness industry for my first ‘nutrition’ blog. Fad diets. One of the first things I want you to process before you read this blog is this:...