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St John’s Wood Blog by Imran Ilahi-

The slogan which should appear on the doors of a gym should be: “half the battle is getting here”. This phrase is true. It can be very difficult to getting started with a workout. However, most of the time, people really enjoy it and after one or two weeks they are able to stick with […]


St – Johns Woods Blog by Imran ilahi

One of the things you may tell yourself when you want to lose weight is that you need to “get up and get moving”. However, it doesn’t mean, even if this phrase is definitely true, that you should be pushing yourself each and every day. The plan to devote all of your free time to […]


TOP 3 BONE BUILDING EXERCISES

The foods you eat in your daily diet always have a tremendous influence when it comes to supporting a strong skeletal system. You would find great difficulty in seeing some solid bone remodelling if you are not getting enough level of calcium and vitamin D. However, even when your diet is covered, it is essential […]


TOO MUCH CARDIO WILL MAKE ME FAT?

A lot of studies have been carried out to prove DEVELOPING MUSCLE imposes BURNING FAT. So we are going to have a look at something that does make you fat… CARDIO. This is why: Cardio that is done at a low intensity such as jogging or the cross trainer makes your receptors for muscle building […]


WHY IS MY DIET KILLING MY METABOLISM?

The amount of clients and just people I know in general turn around and tell me they are on the new “21 day transformation” or the new “3 week fat burner” they have ripped out from a random lifestyle or fitness magazine or read online. Let me just make it clear from now… DO NOT […]


HOW TO FIX YOUR METABOLISM

You may have been on a fat loss diet in the past or are on one now, and have had a generally good diet, leading to a decent metabolism, with good progress. You may have soon released, as you fade off from your healthy diet, thinking your metabolism can handle it, it is actually running […]


IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO JUST BE MOTIVATED

At first when starting out as a personal trainer, I believed there were two main components for anyone to achieve their goals, great intense workouts and even greater nutrition plans which is all you need to succeed. Surprisingly not long later I had released, that’s not the case, and about half of my clients weren’t […]


Do you have a healthy diet mind set?

Before telling yourself “I need to be healthy, I need to diet”, it’s more important to make sure you get yourself in the right mind set to being. People who don’t start off with the right mind set are sure to drop out and give in to the health wrecking foods, rather than those who […]


ONE WAY TO DECREASE FAT

INCREASE MUSCLE: If you continuously attempt to lose weight, it’s expected in most cases that you will probably lose some or, sometimes, A GREAT DEAL of muscle also. You need to pick up some weight. Some heavy weight. It’s called “resistance” training for a reason – to resist weight. You can swing around your pretty […]


NOT BUILDING MUSCLE? HERE’S THREE REASONS WHY

: “There are a few key things you need to make sure are put in place if you are focused on building lean muscle mass.” Either yourself, or you know a lot of people, who have time after time again set the goal of building lean muscle mass but always fail, because they are missing […]