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

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?

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..............

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!’

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. 

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.

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.

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.

When I first opened the doors of Access Fitness Dublin I realised very quickly that I was far more productive between 6-9am than I was between 9pm and midnight.
 

Three years on and its rare not to find me in bed by 9pm. When I’m in the gym I’m generally up at 5:10am but even when I don’t have to it’s rare that I sleep past 5:30am.

If your Father suffered from Heart Disease and his Father suffered from Heart Disease surely it’s inevitable that you’re on your way down the same path, yes? Don’t be ridiculous.

Did you ever think that maybe you’re grandfather had a bad lifestyle whose habits were passed onto your father who in turn raised you a similar way and that’s how you could end up with the same faith.

Let me start with this is not a blog of abuse. Even if you get pissed off with me after the first couple of paragraphs because I will probably hit a nerve with some. Please read to the end. Thank You. 

This is a line I’ve said so many times to clients in my facility. You see if you have a bad lifestyle and are putting on weight a simple reason may justbe an over consumption of calories.

With refined and processed foods it’s very easy to clock up calories, so let’s say you wake up one morning and that’s it! This is the day it’s all going to change. You’ve been talking to Mary up the road and she’s telling you that you just have to eat ‘Clean’. So you plan out your day with 3 meals and no snacks that looks something like this: