James Davis

What do I mean, “Yes and No”?! Well, of course WE ARE personal trainers. Between us we’ve trained thousands of clients. BUT we also have qualifications including Hormone Specialist, Menopause Practitioner, Stress Management Coach, Mastercoach, Personality Profiler, NLP Practitioner, Masters in Applied Psychology… Things that combined not only take years to achieve, but also take experience […]

You know the thing that trips us up over and over again? Our own beliefs about ourselves. Henry Ford famously said, “whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” When we attempt something new, go for a big goal, move out of our comfort zone. it’s often not our ability to

In case you missed it in last week’s Sunday Times there was a piece quoting a research project looking at slimming supplements. Subjects were given either a placebo or a slimming supplement and the results checked. In all cases there were no clinically significant differences in weight loss between the placebo and the supplement groups.

I realised that I’ve written five articles for five different publications this month, some of them I never get to see (different countries, miss the issue, etc) so why bother? It’s because I enjoy it, and its because I know that the information I’m writing about may help someone. I guess it’s a form of

I’m not a big fan of comparison, but benchmarking every now and then can be useful to see whether we’re doing a good job, or if we should be doing better. I stumbled on an old US Men’s Health the other day, and they had a page of stats about the average US male (sounds

It’s easy to get discouraged in life. When things don’t go our way, when they don’t pan out as planned… When we feel our progress isn’t quick enough, when we have one of those days… or weeks. If the game is feeling too long – should you be playing it? All too often we can