Love Pain or Pleasure?

Everyone knows it!   Having a lifestyle that contains the right sort of exercise and nutrition is very beneficial for you.   Being a creature of habit on both means…   Effective weight loss Losing fat Feeling more energetic Better skin Get more of what you want doing each day done! And being able to [...]

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How to fulfil your potential with simple values

  Yesterday I got sent this great video where Dave Brailsford basically got asked about how they (The British Cycling Squad) are so successful.   (Little teaser – the answers coming up will surprise you)   Unless you’ve been living under a rock this last year especially (they’ve been winning medals for years now) you’ll [...]

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Great Manchester Run

Great Manchester Run 10K Training Program

This is a note specifically for members of ABC Fitness Camp    I know some of you are planning to do the Great Manchester Run this year again or for the first time and have been asked a couple times on what to do to help you on the day.   Pretty much everything you [...]

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Bad Bootcamp

Comparing bootcamps is like Apple iPod to another mp3?

Over the last couple weeks I’ve experienced first-hand some serious reservations from others about bootcamp and to be honest I don’t blame them one bit!     Stories of getting injured and the randomness of the session.   Fears about how difficult it will be.     All coming from what else they’ve experienced or [...]

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Fitness Tips Manchester

Lazy Weight Loss and Fitness

    Weight loss, fat loss, improved fitness and health…   …Whatever your ultimate desire is (or desires)…   …ARE EASY…   …When you hustle, do the harder things (based on 21st century obstacles, fears and habits) and create long lasting lifestyle habits.       That’s how someone loses 50lbs+ in a few months [...]

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If it hurts…should you think twice?

  So its Monday morning and I am struggling to walk for the first time in a very long while!   My posture is a bit worse for wear and my ankles have let out some almighty cracks over the last couple of hours especially when I’ve done a bit of flexibility or mobility.   [...]

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Athletes don’t need isolation movements

Isolation exercises get no love. I’m surprised every time I hear trainers say you shouldn’t do biceps curls or calf raises because they aren’t “functional.” I don’t know what definition of “functional” they’re using, but it’s clearly different from mine. Let me offer some examples. Imagine a wrestler trying to flip his opponent, or a [...]

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Is fear holding you back?

I decided to write this post after reading one of a similar nature by a good friend of mine for personal trainers that inspired me to attack it from a differing point of view. My thanks to Adam Toohey. Sarah was on the road to getting the figure that she wanted. For years she had [...]

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Mike’s 40th Birthday Special for ABCFC (March 8th Only)

(Update – While sent out to mailing list, this blog was mistakingly only put up around 3pm GMT so I’ll leave the link live until midday on March 9th) Holy Shit!   40!   Doesn’t seem that long ago I clocked over to 30.   I was still in my “previous life” working a long [...]

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[ABCFC] March 8th Birthday special for ABCFC

Once a year on my birthday I offer a substantial discount on my bad-ass group-training program, A.B.C. Fitness Camp, Didsbury.   It’s the only time I offer a discount (of sorts!).   For the most part I never, ever do discounts because I feel it damages the perceived value of the product.   That’s why [...]

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