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10 Tips for Better Bodies     Our Health Club Supervisor Louise shares her top tips on how to get the best and healthiest body for you:  1. Keep eating simple. Avoid processed foods and stick to lean cuts of meat and vegetables as close

Cardio – Why it’s not the be all and end all   Now before anyone thinks I’m totally anti-cardio let me stress, I’m not. I incorporate it into my training, with teaching numerous different cardio-based classes and doing quite

    If I had €1 for every time someone came up to me in the gym and said that they wanted to lose fat from their tummy and arms and nowhere else id be rich! No, it’s not impossible as some trainers will make you believe, you can target

    For the last while I’ve been writing articles on specific things. Lose bodyfat, gain muscle, importance of sleep, the dangers of parabens, gluten etc. This time I’m simplifying it, taking it back to the beginning. Not everyone

  In the first of a 2 part series, our Heath Club Manager Louise looks at the myths and truth surrounding the Cardio vs Weights debate, and how both play a role in achieving your fitness goals. Cardio vs Weights, which is best and why? This is an

  In part 2 of our series, Health Club manager Louise looks into the benefits of weight-lifting and how it plays such an important role in improving your health and fitness.  Weights – ah, my holy grail, the reason that I exist. Now that

Shape up and Showoff   How many times have you looked at a picture of someone and thought, I’d love to look like him/her? How many years have you booked a holiday and told yourself, ‘this is the year I’m going to look my best on

Strength AND conditioning, can you do both?   Everyone these days in the industry calls themselves a strength and conditioning coach but in reality, we are much better at getting you strong than we are at getting you conditioned.   You can't

Burning stubborn body-fat If I had €1 for every time someone came up to me in the gym and said that they wanted to lose fat from their tummy and arms and nowhere else id be rich! No, it’s not impossible as some trainers will make you believe,

1. Keep eating simple. Avoid processed foods and stick to lean cuts of meat and vegetables, as close to their natural state as possible. When consuming carbohydrates, go for low GI, complex ones that are packed with nutrients and dietary fibre like sweet potato