pregnancy, exercise, laptop

Training in pregnancy

Training during pregnancy   Should you exercise while pregnant? How much is enough or what’s too much? What can you do and what can’t you? From a coach who has coached many clients successfully through pregnancy. Here’s everything you need to know about exercising during pregnancy! For most future moms exercise is a great idea. Read More…

Overnight oats, porridge, fruit

Overnight Coconut oats

Overnight coconut oats Ingredients – 1 ½ cups (150g) oats, gluten-free ½ cup (45g) desiccated coconut 1 scoop (25g) vanilla protein 1 tsp. vanilla essence 7/8 cup (200g) coconut yoghurt 1 ½ cup (350ml) almond milk, unsweetened What you need to do – Add the oats and desiccated coconut to a large bowl and mix Read More…

Strength training, personal training, personal trainer

Beginners guide to strength training

A beginners guide to strength training. Strength training is designed to improve your posture, speed up your metabolism, reduce injury’s and build lean muscle around the body. Posture – Having a better overall posture requires you to activate muscle groups that may have switched off. Which is due to your lack of using them day Read More…

food, dinner, chicken and rice

Slow cooker teriyaki chicken

Slow cooker Teriyaki chicken. Ingredients – 1½ lbs. (700g) chicken breast 2 tsp. corn-starch + 3 tbsp. water 1 tbsp. sesame seeds, to garnish For the Sauce: ¼ cup (60ml) + 1 tbsp. tamari ¼ cup (60ml) honey 1 large onion, diced. 2 tbsp. ketchup 1 tbsp. olive oil 1 tsp. chilli garlic sauce (Sambal Read More…

Friends, restaurant, eating out

5 Tips eating healthy on the move

  5 Tips to eat healthy on the move… Everyone has a plan until someone you have kids and become a taxi driver. Most clients I work with do great until they face socialising whilst keeping up the healthy eating. These are the top 5 tips I use with my clients to help them enjoy Read More…

Man, man exercising, outdoors

Lose fat without losing muscle

Lose fat without losing muscle… Losing fat whilst keeping muscle is like increasing your profits in business while trying to spend as little as possible. It’s not impossible but it’s a fine art. You’ve got to burn more calories (moving more and eating less), whilst giving your body a reason to believe it needs to Read More…

Man spinning plates

4 Ways to spin the plates of family and fitness!!

4 Ways to spin the plates of family and fitness!! Many of my clients have kids, partners, jobs, and other responsibilities. I’ve spoken many times about seeing your values (fitness, family, finances, mental health) as things that should be supporting one another. NOT working against each other. When the things you want are in conflict Read More…

food guilt, shame, hunger

Shame vs Positivity

Shaming vs positivity… I once took a notepad around with me for a week and wrote down every time I got triggered. When I felt upset, took something personally or had a thought that made me panic about the future. The act of noting down the thought, feeling and what triggered me made me realise: Read More…

fitness, exercise, kettlebell workouts

I want to lose fat “here”…

I want to lose fat “here”… Do you want to improve your body shape or size? Tone your body or shrink the size of it? Well, here’s the thing when people say to me… Brenton how do I lose this bit here? – Person points to stomach, arms or legs. The 100% truth is you Read More…

Holistic approach, health coaching

Does fat loss HAVE to be holistic?

Does fat loss HAVE to be holistic? Can you lose weight without the fluff? The fluff of learning, lifestyle management, counting calories and everything else. Can you just move more and eat less? Lose weight, end of story… That would be lovely. Here’s what else would be lovely… I’d just get a pay rise. Find Read More…