Do we need supplements?
At The Academy (Macclesfield Group Personal Training weight loss gym) Group and 1:1 Personal Training in Macclesfield we occasionally get asked why we recommend supplements. The usual comment is “if we eat a balanced diet we can get everything we need from food”. We used to think this way too. It’s a nice idea. It was probably true 100…
Paradigm shifts – how to shift your thinking to actually lose weight
Is this a duck or a rabbit?
Is it calories in vs. calories out? Historical examples that dissprove this
At The The Academy (Macclesfield Group Personal Training weight loss gym) Personal Training Studio here in Buxton, Derbyshire we still hear on a daily basis that excess body fat storage is down to calories in vs. calories out. New clients who are looking to lose weight invariably come us believing that people store excess…
The Basics
This article is about making sure that you are doing the basics in achieving your goal. It is human nature to get bogged down in the finer points of something, often at the expense of the main body of it. We regularly get people asking us about anti-oxidants, fat-protein ratios, supplements, etc. When we look…
Getting Started
Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu stated (over 2,500 years ago) that “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. This is as true now as it was then. What holds most people back from working towards achieving any goal is the seeming enormity of it. People feel over-faced by the size of the challenge…
A Few Nutritional Basics
In ‘The Basics’ we covered general basics. Things that people should really be doing as a minimum, whatever their health and fitness goal. In this edition we will look a bit more at eating and drinking.