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In the following series I'm going to outline a very simple strategy to getting started with endurance training- it will by no means be exhaustive, however it will provide the novice with the bare bones to execute effective training prior to an event or challenge. 

I bet there's not one of us that can say hand on heart we haven't fallen for one of these somewhere along the way!

It's high time that these fitness 'truths' were finally laid to rest...

Here's the deal, people...
Sitting for long periods of time in your chair, at your desk is slowly destroying your body.

Some videos to guide you through some basics of the basics.

Cancer has developed a taboo about it like religion or your kinky sex games. I think it's because there is so much of it going around these days that people are afraid they'll offend someone. 

It's a topic I do read a bit of and enjoy watching documentaries. Unfortunately the medical system in Ireland and the UK is a bit one tracked when it comes to cancer. People are lead to believe that your only options are Chemo and Radiation and that's it.

But what about our other options.............

At the moment I've tonnes of half written or half researched blogs on my hard drive. I'm going to do a clear out now but here's one I came across on food additives. I'd wrote it back when I'd wrote a series of blogs on stressors in the body. Click any of the following to read them. Gluten, Fluoride, Artificial Sweeteners

Did you know that not drinking enough water can cause you to retain water?
What!?!
I know, go figure, right?
Here’s the problem...

Crippled with DOMS in the days after a workout?Protein shakes and stretching not cutting it?

Don't worry, I'm not trying sell you anything. I merely want to let you in on an exciting revelation I made recently that could see your days of debilitating DOMS become a thing of the past.

In the pursuit of weight loss, or more specifically, fat loss, making your diet work in your favour is of paramount importance!

Technically Vitamin D isn't a Vitamin at all. It's more of a hormone similar to that of cortisol (only way better). 

So what's it good for?

Hey, ever wondered how to have your cake and eat it too?

Go to the gym but not really sure about what you're doing?
Remember these 7 movements and you wont go wrong.

All my life I've always wanted to be the best as whatever it was I was doing. I've always set my goals high, full of ambition and wanting to achieve. The only downfall with this mentality is physics. For every action there's an opposite and equal reaction. So its great when I'm wired and high as a kite on life but unfortunately I also suffer with low spells where I feel like I'm on the treadmill of life putting in all this effort and sprinting like a greyhound but getting nowhere.

After talking last week about believing more in yourself here's a little speech I went off on social media...............

WOW!!! What a year it's been so far. Hitting all new levels as a Father, a Husband, a Coach, an Entrepreneur and after 32 years I'm still learning about myself and expanding my education on life..............

I would quite happily bet my very last euro that you're not getting enough sleep!
I would also happily bet my last euro that your response would be something along the lines of,
“Well, I get about six hours a night and I don’t really feel tired so, yeah, I think I do”

We Irish are gas. We drive flash cars, wear designer clothes, and eat in fancy restaurants and holiday as often as possible but when you’re told a bottle of fish oil is €30 it’s like ‘WTF? You’re having a laugh!’

At present it is estimated that 300,000 people in Ireland have Osteoporosis. One in 5 men and 1 in 2 women over 50 will develop a fracture due to Osteoporosis in their lifetime (irishosteoporosis.ie). That’s a pretty scary prospect and of course there are many factors that contribute to these stats... lack of vitamin D and poor nutrition being just two of them. However there is definitely light at the end of this tunnel.

Every week I’m trying to think of new things to write about and topics I think you’d find interesting. But sometimes I think it’s a waste because I don’t believe most of you are even implementing the basics. You’re still getting distracted by the lasted fads and quick fixes.

So Po (I may or may not have just called you a fat panda) today I’m going to give you the Secret…….The Dragon Scroll. 

I don't think there has ever been a more important or pressing time for the public to know the truth about certain aspects of this industry!

Did you wake up last Monday all inspired with new plans? You know the ones, “I’m going to give up the smokes, takeout’s, chocolate, I’ll train three times a week, in bed by 9pm and think only happy thoughts all day long”. Ye and by Friday you’re sitting down in the pub laughing about them and talking about how you’ll start Monday.

I bet you are!
Don't worry though, I got your back peeps!

"This hurts, that's sore, I don't want to do that lift 'cause I have 'X' wrong with my so an' so"

Classic talk I hear all the time, sometimes out of my own gob too.

Let's face it, we're all guilty of falling into a recovery deficit at some point.

Do you know that every week I get a number of reply’s to my blogs. Generally its people showing their appreciation for the information I supply. Recently though I got some surprising feedback. Someone said to me that I tell people what not to do all the time but never offer the alternative?

Now in my head I’m thinking it’s really simple. Follow things that I include like The Food Chart or The Alkaline / Acidic Chart. Stay away from gluten, drink reverse osmosis or other filtered water. As regards training, one week I gave very simple instructions on how to revamp your old gym programme even if its only machine based. Read it HERE.

We all make mistakes, (I sure as hell make my fair share of them!) we all have to start somewhere too, right?

Usually with a lot of mistakes.

Quite often I see the same mistakes being made repeatedly, that’s why I’m writing this article. Whether you’re training with us here at Access Fitness or heading over to your local health club, there are a few things you can do to help make those goals an almost certainty.

I generally ask everyone I consult what it means to eat a balanced diet and generally after a minute of fumbling around trying to string the right words together they give up. Whether you say a balanced diet or everything in moderation, nobody seems to have a clue what it is.

Nine times out of ten it's Saturday and Sunday where we fall down.
I think it stems from a desire to break out from the constraints of the day to day, Monday to Friday grind; the monotony of mid week compliance.

You just need to learn how to be happy.

Are you constantly searching for happiness in materialistic goods? "Oh if I have that iPhone, 60" TV or new car then ill be happy". So what happens then when you smash the screen on your iPhone, your TV is stolen and someone rear ends your new car? Bye Bye Happiness.

I have to admit, this has become a bit of a pet peeve of mine; the word ‘but’.
Usually followed by an excuse, the kind of excuse that wouldn’t wash with a four year old, the kind of excuses I used to use myself.