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Last week I shared maxim number 7 with you: Be Tenacious and Resilient As promised here is this weeks maxim for you. #8 Remove the negatives Many years ago, I was sitting in front of my GP filling out a questionnaire stuck on the question, have you ever had suicidal thoughts. When I think back […]

Last week I shared maxim number 5 with you: Find your one thing. As promised here is this weeks maxim for you. #6 Move yourself happyBetween 2008 and 2013, I was very unhappy. My doctor diagnosed me with severe depression, and I was not myself for a long time.The fear of those dark days coming […]

Last week I shared maxim number 3 with you: Take action. As promised, here is this weeks maxim for you. #4 Do as I do is much more powerful than do as I say If you are a coach or leader in any capacity, you must model the behaviour you are trying to influence. We can […]

I often get asked what my book recommendations are. This isn’t easy because I have read so many, but I can certainly help give you some direction.  When I qualified as a fitness professional, I read everything fitness related that I could get my hands on.  However, you need to be more than just an […]

At Storm Fitness Academy, we give our trainee PT’s all the resources they need to become brilliant and successful trainers. A coach A community A study portal Training manuals If they apply everything they learn from all of those awesome resources they will have an a great career. However, they can’t do that without learning […]

According to the health education authority, 1997, mental health is ‘the emotional and spiritual resilience which allows us to enjoy life and survive pain, disappointment and sadness. It is a positive sense of well-being and an underlying belief in our own, and others, dignity and worth. Now doesn’t that sound wonderful? Just that definition alone […]

I can be a proper geek when it comes to sports science. When it comes to achieving a specific performance goal I have the know-how and experience to programme that for myself or for anyone else. If you have a very specific performance goal i.e to run a 5km in under 20 minutes or to […]

If you Google ‘personal training success tips’ you will get over 367,000,000 search results. Where do you start? The amount of information is overwhelming and varies from one source to the next. Also, the term success is very subjective. Success to one PT may mean making a six-figure salary, but to another PT it might […]

The mechanisms underpinning the connectedness of physical exercise to mental health and wellbeing are complex and multi-layered. In a previous article, I looked at the brain and the physiological changes that take place. In this article, I’m going to discuss the psychological side of things and how the chemical changes induced by exercise, go on […]

In a previous article, I shared my own experience of depression and how my daily walking ritual helps me manage my mental health. I have been convinced for a long time now that walking has a profound impact on my mental health. As I child I could never sit still and just wanted to keep […]