How To Beat The Monday Blues
The Monday blues can seriously affect your productivity for the week. So set yourself up for success by being prepared, and incorporate a few simple tasks into your routine to ensure your week gets off on the right foot! Prepare the Night Before to Avoid Stress Feeling more organised is an integral part of getting […]
How to lose weight by stepping on the scales daily
Do you dread stepping on the scales? Could daily weigh-ins be the answer? A recent study was conducted into why only 3-5% of people lost weight and kept it off long term and what those successful people did. The results unearthed that poor understanding, expecting, and appreciating weight fluctuations (how our weight goes up and […]
How to Rest and Recover
All types of training puts the body and its systems under physiological stress. Incorporating rest and recovery allows your body to adapt and cope with this stress, resulting in your body becoming fitter, stronger and healthier. You can then push yourself to the next level. Take a look at our top tips for optimum recovery […]
Mental Toughness
Perhaps the desire to be the best, the thought of being the most powerful, or the most intelligent, is captivating and encompasses our drive for success. The world is often more obsessed with success and the desire and drive to “win”. It is rare to see individuals competing for pure pleasure, relaxation, and innocent recreation. […]
The Mental Barrier of Strength Training
In the fitness industry, the most talked-about barrier is taking the first step and getting yourself to the gym. For many, the obstacles to be overcome when taking this first step are embracing anxiety and fear. The mixture of these obstacles can lead to an overall decline in belief and self-confidence, creating negative thoughts and […]
Staying mindful to improve your health
Have you ever finished a meal and realised you don’t remember eating it? Have you even lost count of how many repetitions you did when lifting weights? These are just two examples of mindless eating and mindless exercising. Lack of attention to what, and how much we eat, can contribute to an imbalance in energy intake and expenditure and […]
How to have Confidence in Your Journey
With the majority of our members at The Journey being female, we want to ensure that all of our members, including our male clients, feel safe, comfortable and confident. During a visit to a public gym in Glasgow, I received a message from my male friend. The message said, “Text me if you need a […]
Can the fitness industry overcome gender inequality?
Men have always been stereotyped as the gender who shift the “real” weights in the gym, whilst women “prance” around on the cardio equipment. But recently, it has become more of a trend to see women using heavyweights and on occasions, matching the men. I’d like to preface this article with a short disclaimer. My experiences […]
The Benefits of ‘Green Exercising’
In this blog, we dive into the fascinating subject of outdoor exercise — could it be a leading factor in improving mental performance and combating mental health issues? Certainly, there’s no better time than in these challenging days to discover more. Studies have long proven the connection between health and physical activity such as reducing […]
Is training to failure your friend?
To optimally build strength and a better physique, just how “hard” should I train? Is failure your friend? Let us kick off by setting the scene and asking, in the gym, what is failure? Essentially, failure means doing an exercise until you cannot complete another rep, or until your form breaks down and you look like […]