At Optimum3 it’s about more than just getting sweaty in the gym or eating loads of salad. It’s about an ethos and approach that looks at everything that can affect your results. Whether you have a goal of weight loss, fat loss or muscle gain there can be different factors to consider that will make a big difference. One being sleep! Let’s take a look.
Following on from my recent childhood obesity blog Obesity in Children – it’s a big deal! it got me thinking about a method used in measuring both adults and children’s health. BMI, and is it really all that? Read More
You may have read about it on social media or in the news, obesity in children is on the increase, and its time we did something about it. By ‘we’ I mean from the top to the bottom, Government, food companies (I wish), right through to us as parents. There is a lot we can do in terms of taking responsibility for our own health and that of the future generation. Read More
So, I put a brief post on my Facebook and Twitter personal training pages a couple of weeks ago regarding the news that 10 portions of fruit and vegetables a day would be more beneficial than the previously thought 5 a day, and I wanted to expand. Read More
We all know we should be eating our fruit & vegetables but do you know the exact benefits to some of the fruit & veg you consume? Not sure? No worries lets get in to some detail. Read More
Cereal for breakfast when on a fat loss programme? This is something I touched on in a social media post on my personal training pages a few weeks ago and wanted to share it again, as poor advice like this from personal trainers and other ‘experts’ annoys me greatly.
It’s January. It’s 2017. You’ve set your New Years resolutions and promised yourself this year is the year. A new me. With this in mind I want to clear something up.
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Who’s reading this and thinks ‘eating healthy is bland and boring’?
When it comes to nutrition and food choices there are a few basic things we can do to make things more exciting such as flavouring food with herbs and spices. But one thing that’s very important and can be a simple thing to implement, is nutritional variety. Read More
One common thought process when it comes to food and exercise is that if we fall off the healthy lifestyle wagon, that’s it, ‘I’ve ruined it now’. Read More
I’m going to keep this one simple. Read More