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Cellulite Solution
Orange peel syndrome, cottage cheese skin, hail damage or cellulite all terms used to describe the dimpled appearance of skin caused by fat deposits that are just below the surface of the skin.. What causes the golf ball effect? There is several theories use as explanations of the dreaded cottage cheese skin. Among these are: [...]
Is being nice making us fat?
Recently I read a blog post about NICE (National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence), advising health and clinical professionals in the UK not to use the term “obese” when referring to patients as it can be deemed as a derogatory term. This got me thinking. Is it recommendations like this that are making the [...]
Invest in yourself
Imagine your life was a bank account and you started with $86,400 every day. The only catch is you can’t save it and it doesn’t carry on to the next day. How would you spend it? Cars, jewellery, holidays?? Where would your health and fitness fit into the equation? I’m guessing pretty low! Well guess [...]
The New York Marathon
Its not about the run “I had a dream …” These famous words were spoken by one of the most inspiring leaders from the last century to unite a country and fulfil a commitment to friend and foe. How fitting that when Gill Thomas said these words to me 12 months ago before one of [...]
Spot The Fat You Want Gone
All the fitness magazines say spot fat reduction is a myth Reducing your overall body fat %, fine, however losing that lower belly – and nothing else or the annoying cellulite on the back of the thighs. It’s just not possible, or is it? Advancements in exercise endocrinology may be giving personal trainers new tools [...]
Conquering Kokoda
New Guinea1942. Australia is at war with Japan. A small platoon of Australian soldiers from the 39th battalion have been set as a forward patrol far outside the perimeter of Isurava, a village on the Kokoda track in Papua New Guinea. After sustained bombardment and initial attacks from the Japanese, the men are cut off [...]
My comfort zone
I used to have a comfort zone where I knew I wouldn’t fail, The same four walls and busywork were really more like jail, I longed so much to do the things I’d never done before, But stayed inside my comfort zone and paced the same old floor. I said it didn’t matter that I [...]
