Hoyles Fitness

Stop Christmas Destroying Your Body

The fitness industry loves January. It is a time of year when millions of people decide that this year they will join the gym, get themselves fit and lose some weight. Sales managers can rest easy in January, knowing their membership sales targets will be hit with ease. Gym managers can relax, they know the tills [...]

Stop Christmas Destroying Your Body

A Change In My Nutritional Approach

I have mentioned before on the site how important it is that we keep learning, keep trying and keep discovering new things. My stance on nutrition is the perfect example of my development as a Fit Pro. When I was in University, nutritional education was still based around the idea that we needed starchy carbohydrates to [...]

A Change In My Nutritional Approach

Keep your fitness training fresh

As the old saying goes, familiarity breeds contempt. In training it also leads to boredom, lack of results, lack of motivation and in worst cases, injury. This article outlines ways of training that you perhaps hadn’t thought of, or were unsure about. The details are limited on purpose, as they are all massive individual topics [...]

Keep your fitness training fresh

How to Motivate Yourself to Exercise

One of the common reasons I hear for why people don’t dedicate time to exercise and looking after themselves is the poor excuse of “I can’t be bothered”, or “I’m too busy” Personally, I believe these are weak excuses – I work 6-7 days most weeks, often over 12 hours and still find time to [...]

How to Motivate Yourself to Exercise

Dietary Accountability

Over the years, I have encountered many people who want to lose weight. My first port of call when looking at weight management is addressing the client’s diet – it is well known in fitness circles that you can’t out-train a bad diet. Imagine your daily activity consumed a massive 10,000 calories – if you [...]

Dietary Accountability

The Benefits of Personal Training

I am currently learning to play golf. To do this, I have been taking lessons from a golf coach. I believe in allowing a professional to do a job they are trained to do. When I wanted to learn to drive, I went to a driving instructor. I could have been taught by family members, [...]

The Benefits of Personal Training

Winterproof your body

It seems winter is the season for illness – NHS statistics back up the fact that more sickness absence days are taken during the winter months (November-February) than any other time of year. It could be argued that Christmas accounts for a portion of this, but remember the Christmas period is only 1-2 weeks of [...]

Winterproof your body

Mental feng shui

Over the last 12 months, my life has evolved into a much busier and stressful version of its former self. There are a number of reasons for this, and they have generally been as a result of conscious moves towards my personal and professional goals. I have a busy, full time job. Due to a successful [...]

Mental feng shui

The Death of the ‘Fitness’ Industry?

For many years, the fitness industry has been incredibly successful at changing and adapting products to suit its own requirements. Taking an existing concept, putting a different spin on it and repackaging it as a different version of itself has allowed the fitness industry to grow and evolve into the multi-billion worldwide industry it is [...]

The Death of the ‘Fitness’ Industry?

Sorting and Assessing

There is something very therapeutic about organising your life. Today Rachel and I are having a day where we sort out our apartment – clean from top to bottom, organise work papers into order, throw away the stuff we don’t need etc. Personally, although it is a job that takes a long time, it is [...]

Sorting and Assessing