Goal Setting: Think "trajectory" rather than specifics.

Here's something I've been working on. It’s not so much a “real graph” in that it’s not based on real data, so much as it is an illustration of a logical point. Now… for people about to come into the New Year with a resolution of achieving some sort of a goal via...

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The Progress Heirachy Pyramid.

Here’s a little animation I made to illustrate the hierarchy of importance of different elements and how when they are all stacked up together they lead to success in your training related goals. Especially online, most people just like to debate, argue and bicker. When...

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Secret Weapons For Optimal Energy Intake

Not your standard healthy foodspo type pic, is it? Here’s the thing. Eating quote/unquote “healthy” foods is awesome. More vegies in particular, more fruit too... all manner of nutrient dense foods. It means you’re sure to be getting an abundance of vitamins and minerals...

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Ditch The Diet And Eat Like An Athlete

ALRIGHT SERIOUS TALK. If you TRAIN in pursuit of any specific or not-so-specific performance or condition result, start thinking of yourself more like an athlete. More like an athlete, less like “someone on a diet”. Women in their late teens or early – mid twenties who...

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The foods you love or the body you want?

Limit fruit? NEVER. What do just about all diets have in common? Almost every variation on "dieting" comes down to giving things up, as if it is a trade off or something. You need to give up certain things that you enjoy, in order to get something else that you want. In...

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Everything The Opposite Of Everything Else.

Listen.My tagline should probably be "everything the opposite of everyone else" but if I had to narrow it down to one main point of difference I would say this:My strategy is based on putting in everything you need to perform and to produce your goal physical condition through training. In comparison, most everyone else is just recklessly slashing...

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How bad do you really want it?

Hear me out on this one. You see, read and hear this a lot, right? "The problem is, you just don't want it bad enough". For whatever it's worth, I don't deal with people who don't want it bad enough. You have to want it bad enough to do what it takes to get it. That's true...

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Fastest Results In Body Transformations

You wanna talk about FAST RESULTS? I will tell you something about what sort of fast results are possible. I've produced some major results very fast in certain circumstances. For example a client comes to me already active, fit, actually training and participating in...

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Think Positive. Take Action. Be Accountable. BLARGH.

But first, I will take a selfie. "Health and wellness" type pages on facebook seem all be either one or the other type of polar opposites. At one end you have the all doom and gloom, guilt and shame pages about how "everything out there is killing you, but join our food...

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Observations on involuntary binge eating.

I'll start by saying that this is a complex and multifaceted issue, and circumstances from one individual to another will vary. Therefore this might not be applicable to everyone with a binge eating problem, but hopefully it might be to some. I've long felt that over restriction...

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Health At Various Sizes.

Tell 'em, Caitlyn! Oh lawd.I got tagged on another "fitness" type page where there's all sorts of controversy going on over fat shamming and bullying. I got tagged as a better example of a trainer with a positive message, which was nice!Here's the thing.Body weight and even...

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Your arguments against moderation and flexibility in dieting are invalid and illogical.

I've gotten into the habit of posting a selfie with most of the entires here. Today's is animated. I don't know if it always comes across this way but what I actually believe is that is ok that people promote a variety of different messages that are most helpful to different...

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I don't do meal plans. I do Custom Flexible Dieting Guidelines.

Pretty average photo from training yesterday. I thought my shoulders were looking good though. I just don't, and I won't no matter how much someone asks or how much they offer to pay me. I just don't feel comfortable telling other people what to eat. The idea stresses me...

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Six Degrees Of Separation In Pseudoscience

Birds of a feather flock together. You know, like the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon game. I'm still kind of trying to pull this idea together in my brain so bare with me. I was thinking for example, a lot of people have sworn off grains and are hell bent on convincing everyone...

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Calories In Calories Out Is Bullshit?

Shame about cutting off the top of my head, but at least my arms look nice. Another one of these articles with the above title came up in my newsfeed just now, and I typed a response but then I thought "oh, what's the use I don't have the energy for this anymore" because...

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Context Is Always King

Another one that should have been posted here and then linked to from facebook, rather than the other way around. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,...

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Like it or not this is the truth about weight loss.

Sometimes I post things on facebook that really should have gone onto the blog for prosperity. Like this one. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,...

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Origin story for benefit of the new people.

As you might be aware I’m a qualified trainer, with a special interest in “relapse avoidance” via productive training rather than calorie burning, and flexible dieting rather than restrictive fad diets or extreme calorie restriction. Eating disorder recovery is no trivial...

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Decide to make this week a good week, every week.

REAL TALK BROLosing weight is NOT as hard as people make out. Hell I keep doing it by accident when my goal is to get bigger, if anything.HEAR ME OUT HERE.To lose weight you need to make food choices that result in total energy intake that is more appropriate to your goal weight. Being active will help, TRAINING effectively even more so. But total...

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