Go the F* to sleep – Covid sleep stats !!
It's Wednesday! A reminder to all who would like to join me this Saturday at 0800 up the Peak, meeting at Tauroa Carpark. We will be picking a track in the morning and walking up. Please feel free to invite any friends/family and move it for March! All fitness levels...
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Happy Monday,Hope you all had a great weekend. It was my Dad's birthday on Friday so I made him a keto chocolate cake (which was actually pretty tasty), and we headed out for a family lunch on the Saturday. Beach swims, walks, chicken farm visits (more on this soon),...
read moreI Love to Gargle!
Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend. I headed to the Farmers Market on Sunday morning and purchased a selection of vegetable plants which I was busy planting in the afternoon. Nothing better than heading out to the garden to pick fresh vegetables for the...
read moreWhat Kind of Garden Are You Growing?
Our bodies are our gardens. If you keep at it on a regular basis, weed, water, nourish then you will bloom. Leave it for a month, and you will find things have overgrown, looking tired and sad. Take time each day to nourish yourself / your garden in some way. This...
read moreHow to eat Doughnuts and NOT get fat!
Happy Wednesday! Hope you are managing to stay warm and dry with our pre Winter cold snap. We are going to keep this post round and sweet 🙂 Being a cold day yesterday, we thought we would make some doughnuts to eat for dessert, as you do, - bit of comfort food we...
read more94 Years Young
Happy Monday. Hope you all had a great weekend. We had a weekend of catching up with lovely friends. Dinner one night, beach day the next. Plenty of sunshine (a bit too much actually), delicious food, playing in the dirt, swimming... it was a good one. So for today's...
read moreA Love Letter to My Other Lover
With being Valentines day just around the corner I thought I would share a love letter to someone that has been there with me through thick and thin. For 20 plus years you have been my teacher, my therapist and a friend You have helped me build my strength,...
read moreFive Quickies
As I was sitting down getting ready to watch the Queen's Gambit (have any of you guys watched it yet?), I was wondering what to write for Wednesday's newsletter. I asked Paul for some inspiration and he opened his note document (Paul's forever writing notes on thought...
read more10 Fitness Myths That Should Be Dead By Now!
Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you are all having a great long weekend. It was lovely seeing new and old faces on the Peak walk on Saturday morning. The next date to put in your calendar will be Saturday 6th March. We will confirm the walk venue closer to the time. All...
read moreA Simple Method To Meal Prep
Happy Friday All. Hope you have had a great week of training/moving well, eating nourishing meals and getting to bed at a reasonable hour each night. Firstly a reminder about the Peak Walk tomorrow morning (Saturday) at 0800 meeting at Tauroa Carpark. This invite is...
read moreIndestructible Knees
Your knees require your attention, so please listen up Having knee pain sucks yet it is one of the most common injuries/complaints I hear In this post I am going to share with you 9 tips on making your knees indestructible 1 - Don't skimp on the warm up This is so...
read moreA Few Simple Truths For Monday
Happy Monday Everyone. We enjoyed a weekend in Wellington catching up with some good friends. Lots of walking, sunshine, peddling a boat in the water (saw a pretty big stingray swim by), eating, coffee-ing, and chatting! A reminder, THIS Saturday morning at 0800 we...
read moreThe One Exercise I Do Everyday
There is one exercise I do everyday without fail. This exercise works on my reflexive posture, full body strength, and my vestibular system (probably the most underrated system in the body) It nourishes my brain and feels good. And as a mentor of mine says ‘’it feels...
read moreThe Magic of 3
Three Little Pigs, Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Musketeers. The rule of thirds in photography, the rule of three in speech writing and apparently bad things always happen in three’s Everywhere you look in life you will find things in 3’s. There is a certain...
read more8 Ways To Start The Week Right
It’s Monday, as if you didn’t know For many it’s the day of dread, back to work with all the stresses that come with it. I can’t do much about your daily grind but I can give you a few tips to get the week started right 1 - Drink a big glass of water Before you...
read moreA Seriously Amazing Tip
If you have joined a gym this January, the best tip I can give you is… Be there in July Don't quit in February Don't go 5 days per week if you haven't done anything in a while. Go twice, then go twice the following week and then twice more the week after that. ...
read moreYou Don’t Need Motivation
Happy Wednesday. Hope you are all having a great week so far. A New Year always brings new resolutions, however after the initial excitement of the goal, sometimes motivation is not enough to keep the momentum going. "Paul, I know what I need to do, I just need some...
read moreFuture Plans
Happy Monday Everyone, Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend. Today we wanted to share with you our, Results, goals and focus for 2021. We understand last year was a little all over the show with the lockdowns, Paul's health, life.... however we are back on track,...
read moreThings to do more and less of this year
Things to do more of … (pic of Paul when he first wakes up 😉 1 - laugh more 2 - sleep more 3 - read more 4 - hydrate more 5 - listen more ‘Things’ to do less of 1 - scrolling of the gram 2 - swimming in GOOP (the good opinion of other people) 3 - self...
read moreThe Fitness Industry Sucks !!
Happy Monday Everyone,Hope you had a great weekend. Most people start a New Year with fitness goals. Whether you want to get fit, lose weight, add muscle, strength, whatever it is, there is tons of information out there to assist or not in some cases. The Fitness...
read moreA Recipe to keep you cool this Summer
Happy Friday! Hope your week is going really well. Every time you put something in your mouth, you are either nourishing your body or adding toxicity. Becoming conscious of what you eat is very valuable to your health. We all love coffee. On a warm Summers day, a...
read moreA Short Story Of Low Hanging Fruit 🍑
Happy Wednesday I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and NYENow that hopefully all the parties, drinking and celebrating silly season has finished, it's time to get serious again. Over the weekend I was out with Milly and Bear and we were ''Gruffalo hunting''Those...
read moreSix Lessons I Learnt From My Whole Experience
Welcome back to part 2 of my (Paul's) story. If you didn’t catch part 1 click here In today’s post I wanted to share with you some of the lessons I have learnt or have served as a major reminder to me over the past year. 1 - When we are no longer able to change the...
read morePaul’s 2020 Journey
Happy Monday, The countdown to Christmas is here. If you are looking for a gift of health, please get in touch with us to organise a voucher for either our fitness camps or personal training services. A great gift for either yourself or a loved one. We have limited...
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