Exercises and workouts

Exercise should be liberating. Through building strength and flexibility in the body, the world becomes a different place for those who exercise. It becomes a place to explore and enjoy. This is espec

When working out at the gym it can seem sometimes to be a complicated affair. All those resistance machines with their different settings and rack after rack of weights - like a workplace, you have to

Everyone, when they workout, has a favourite muscle group of fitness goal. For some people, it's the chest, shoulders or the ability to run a certain distance under a specific time. For myself, I get

The more observant of you would have noticed that I am on holiday this month. Taking time out and enjoying breaks from the norm' is a curious concept for some people in the fitness industry, or for th

Avoid neglecting the lower body (the legs, especially). It's easy when exercising, particularly for men, to concentrate on the upper body and the large muscle groups that can easily attention there (t

There has been a lot of speculation recently as to what awaits us when we are finally free to return to the gym. Online publications and social media, in particular, have been awash with concepts for

When the gyms re-open I will miss spending so much time in the great outdoors, even if sometimes it does turn to rain! This is the third part of my simple outdoor exercise set, featuring resistance ba

One of the keys to a successful workout is to keep it engaging and fresh. Working through the same routines over and over can get to be unrewarding and fail to deliver the kind of rounded, full-body w

It is easy to get into a rut where exercise is concerned. How we exercise, what we do, when we workout, everything can become repetitious and routine, which itself can become a problem. Because when

I think one of the things I will miss when this er, 'moment in history' is over, is working out my with clients in the parks of London. As with Anthony, above, putting in the hard work in Crystal Pala

Like many personal trainers and anyone who follows a scheduled fitness programme, I tend to carry all kinds of equipment around with me. At the moment, when training clients outdoors and in the parks

There is a lot of speculation right now about what will happen when the gyms re-open in London in a couple of weeks. The media, in particular, have been running a variety of stories on this recently w

There is no need to over-complicate things where exercise and fitness is concerned (quite the reverse, in fact). I also tend to find that when workout programmes become very technical the people who a

I get asked regularly how long someone should ideally exercise for. This depends on the fitness programme being undertaken, how regularly it is followed, what the objectives of the workout are, and ho

In this video, you can see Anthony working under, as we train in the great outdoors. Anthony is great to train with because he is motivated, eager to learn new skills and has focus. You need all three

I returned from a vacation in Martinique recently, back to the uncertainties around the Coronavirus crisis. Earlier in the week I was back at my gym, Jubilee Hall Covent Garden, for the first time sin

I get asked about how to develop strong legs all the time and I love working legs! For me, building legs comes from regular and technical exercises that target the legs and lower body. Leg exercises s

The new episode of the 2 Guys on Fitness podcast is out, featuring myself and my good microphone buddy Allen Therisa. This month it's all about resistance bands, how to use them, why they are usefu

Exercise combinations (or 'combos', if you will) are one of the cornerstones of an effective fitness programme. I use them all the time to build strength and muscle, by focusing on the large muscle gr

Exercising effectively outside of a gym can appear daunting, partly because somewhere like a park, for example, does not contain the automatic fall-back of rows of weights and equipment which can be w