If you are going to start using a gym, here are some truths you need to know:

Everybody around you is just as self-conscious as you are. Yes, that super jacked dude. Or that thin (or jacked) fit woman on the elliptical. They aren’t focused on you, because they’re too busy living...

Why Everyone Should Strength Train

What is Strength Training?

If you think strength training requires lugging around dumbbells, kettlebells and barbells only, think again. Any movement that challenges your muscles to work at a significantly higher capacity than their baseline (including simple...

Walking...Anyone can do it, without any specific level of fitness.

The benefits in a 'sat down most of the time' world are also significant.

Walking increases your fitness ♥ without major exertion or risk of injury as well as improving your mental wellbeing and mindset .

So What's the Deal...

A great way to improve your diet and help you burn fat and lose weight is to carefully manage your food environment.

1 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐩

Get rid of temptation. Delete the app and eliminate the opportunity to choose a poor meal option.

2 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭.

Plan your shopping...

Do less exercise now and reap the benefits later.

So the best workout is the one that you actually do.
The workouts that you were meant to do but didn't get around to, the ones that you will 'catch-up on' later, the ones you forsook for a lie-in instead, don’t count.

So why make it hard on...

THE CUE: GETTING OUT OF BED

THE HABIT: MAXIMIZING YOUR MORNING

The first two hours upon waking should be the most mindful of your day, packed with intentional decisions. Establishing a regular, routine behaviour in everything you do during those two morning hours can have a huge impact on how you...

A calorie deficit is the only way we can lose weight.
In theory we just eat less and we should lose weight essentially without doing anything (i.e. no exercise) and we all know it’s easier to do nothing than something, right?...or is it?

Let’s look at the realities of a calorie...

What you must know to lose weight:

1. Diets don’t work. If you have ever been on a diet, you know that dieting does not work. Eventually, dieting and denial lead to overeating and more often than not, binge eating.
   
   
2. Calories do count. If you eat more calories than what you burn off through...

Weight Loss or Fat Loss?

Change the word to change your thinking and approach.

Don’t become obsessed with the scales as they don’t always tell the full story.

We often use a specific number (on the scales) as our health and fitness goal and beat ourselves up about it when it...

People often ask me, what is the best workout I can do?

And I always reply with the same answer. It depends. It depends on what you're looking to achieve, what your goals are, what type of person you are, how motivated you are amongst other considerations.

However, having said that, there is...

“Losing weight” is a common aim, but the key is to focus more on the journey than the destination. Namely: What are you going to do to make it happen? “Focusing on small behavioral modifications is a much more effective approach to make changes,” says Lisa Moskovitz, RD....