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  It’s called Movember. The time real men around the globe start the month clean shaven, and amidst much laughter and bravado, make the valid statement that prostate cancer can be a relevant threat to our futures. One bloke in every rugby team will develop prostate cancer before he is seventy five. This year we […]

  In her groundbreaking book ‘FAT CHANCE’ New Zealand’s Susan Mavia advises people who desperately want to lose weight to “Forget about how fat people diet. Focus on how slim people eat”.   With the implication of how comfortable you will feel in your summer clothing this year, you might now be vigorously targeting your

  We all struggle sometimes with our minds. I did this morning when awoken at 4.45am to go for a workout at the new CP Coast gym. I tried to find reasons to drift back to sleep. But half an hour later having arrived at the club I became inspired after seeing my son had

Commonwealth Games, April 2018 – Club Physical’s Brahm was on the mat less than ten minutes from the start having drawn the World Champion, Bajrang of India for his first fight. Unbelievably Brahm was able to tear his way out of the painful move pictured, although the match went to India. Bajrang went on to

    You’ll probably agree that the hardest part of getting fit or in starting any worthwhile project in life or business is in actually stretching out and making the first move. You have doubts. You have the ‘what ifs?’ What if I fail? What if I don’t lose weight? What if I feel uncomfortable?

We’re breeding a culture of speed. Everything needs to come fast. Since the advent of mobile phones our attention spans have generally fallen from 12 seconds to just 8. This desire for wanting things ‘now’ might be seen in the ditching of a New Year’s Resolution. When the results don’t come fast enough, you quit?

Trust might simply be the missing link between you and the best health/fitness results you have ever enjoyed. Daily living, as full of challenges as it can be, might have lead you to quit your last attempt to improve your health. The sad thing is that every time you allow things to overcome you and

There can be no debate that you can scientifically increase your strength with a well-designed program. You simply increase the resistance you used on a regular basis. This works whether you’re young or older, male or female. The health benefits will bless you with long term mobility and add years to your life. It’s the

    Congratulations. You’ve proved you can do it. You pressed through tiredness, pushed through weakness, and elbowed that still small voice saying: “I can’t do it”, in the gut. Now that you’ve built up such a fierce determination to exercise daily, you also need to slot in one day off a week. I know,

  Thousands of years ago the stresses of daily life were of absolute survival. Will I eat today? Or will I risk being eaten? You either solved the issue within a relatively short time, or you no longer lived to worry about it.   With much of the same bodies today, we now live in

How are you limiting your life?     Here are three challenging thoughts. The first thought is that YOU are capable of doing, achieving and being much more today than you ever felt possible. The only limits are in your own ‘thinking’.   Visiting Australian speaker Robert Fergusson said last week in Auckland, “The limits

Learning to adapt     Much of our failures in life will be due to our failure to negotiate ‘transitions’. And when you think about it, no matter how much you might not want to change, transitions are often unavoidable. From an early age we learn to adapt to the four seasons of the year.

What are you prepared to give up for a better future? A few years back we enrolled a Tax Inspector named John at the club. John had goal to reduce his ‘pot belly’. I admit to being younger, more naive and a little intimidated by what John did for a job, wouldn’t you? I hoped

Good health is a matter of choice     There are two major glaring opportunities that, when respected, can have the biggest positive impact on your health. They are ‘what you eat and how often you exercise’. While exercise serves to speed up your metabolism and enhance your well being, the quantity and selection of

The government?!   The number of Kiwi stroke sufferers is predicted to balloon by a massive 40% within the next ten years. In a June 22nd 2018 NZ Herald article by Jamie Morton; this will affect over 10,000 New Zealanders a year, and is put down in part, to our countries ‘aging population’. The annual

Are you making time to reflect   Are you like allot of Club Physical members – progressive, fitness conscious and hardworking, but always ‘busy’. Busy taking the kids to sport, going to work, building a career, doing up the house, working-out yourself, perhaps starting a business and you find that your entire seven days is

Anyone can do it!   If you have the mind, focus and the persistence to do so, you can gain strength rapidly. In fact, if you have never lifted a weight before, your strength increase will likely double within your first 4-8 weeks with some coaching and a good programme. Gains may not be as

Determination to WIN!   Michael Phelps captured the gold for his country in the Beijing 2008 Olympics and brought home a record eight best-time gold medals. It wont be just the number of medals we’ll remember, but his in dominable spirit when things turned drastically against him in the 200-meter butterfly. As he touched the

Why You’ve Got To Earn Good Health Many of the demands we have can be addressed within the comfort and convenience of a swivel chair and IPad. The not so obvious danger is that we stop ‘movement’. And this is the movement that could save and extend our lives. Years ago in New Zealand, the

Are Antidepressants Really Necessary? How is your mood today? Have you been feeling negative or depressed? The jogging craze began years ago in late 1960’s and soon after people began to understand that exercise caused them to ‘feel good’, mentally. Not long after, it was realised that exercise created what is now called the endorphin