When I first started personal training, the majority of my clients didn’t tell their friends that they had a trainer. Back then, in the late ‘90s, early 00’s, it was still seen as something that only “rich” people did, along with having a cleaner and owning a nice car. And most of my clients didn’t want to be associated with that stereotype. Things have changed a great deal since then. It is no longer the luxury of the upper classes to employ a cleaner, for example; in man

The lovely big patch of grass with surrounding woods that I wrote about in "Saturday morning nature fix" has become our new playground. We head there two or three times a week to....play! We've been getting pretty good with our tree climbing so a few days ago I took along my iphone to film us in our nifty action. In my head, I was not unlike a ninja, jumping and twisting through the trees with gymnastic prowess. So, OHHH, how disappointing when David filmed me and I watched

Thought we'd do a cycle instead of a run today to give our feet a rest. We headed towards South Norwood Park which is a lovely stretch of land full of pebbly trails and grassy expanses. On our route we went across another piece of public land which is not park or recreation ground but just a big circle of grass surrounded by woods. Too good an opportunity to miss, we thought, and headed towards the trees. We spent the next 20 minutes or so using the trees for strength tr

I have a question: why won't people trust what is natural? I speak to many people about diet. I tell them to eat as natural food as possible. They then eye me suspiciously, "what, you mean organic food?" Well, yes, I tell them, amongst other things. I mean food that comes out of the ground without having been doused in chemicals, and food that hasn't been synthetically produced in a lab (squeezy cheese for example). I can then see them mentally picturing the alluring, s

Georgeous weather today. Headed out to Clapham Common as usual and did a full lap plus a bit of road running. The tracks on the Common are still a challenge - lots of twigs and stones. The smooth-ish concrete at the end was very refreshing! Also did some "playing". I practised some balancing on "the log" (a big piece of tree trunk lying horizontal with handy taller and shorter sections for varying challenges) but couldn't do my usual jumps onto it as someone had left thei