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September 13, 2016
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How I went from Obesity to being a Personal Trainer

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As the lead trainer for All Change Personal Training, I felt like the time was right for me to share my own fitness story with you.

It’s pretty long so I may end up sharing it over two blogs so bare with me. In keeping with the way we do things at All Change, I’ll be really honest and open because it may well make a difference to someone out there. Some of it is not easy to share and I can imagine some of it is not easy to read but if I’m going to ask you to trust me as a personal trainer then knowing the journey I have been on in the last six years is really important…

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September 6, 2016
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What is the key to long term health and fitness?

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Well this is one of the most interesting questions we’ve been asked so far actually.

And if we had one clear definitive answer, we’d all be millionaires (wouldn’t that be nice…!), but it is something we think about a lot, and talk to all our clients about on a regular basis.

The first thing that we understand is that fitness is a process not a goal.
It’s not a destination that you arrive at like you’re going from point A to point B. You’ll be driven by a series of smaller goals along the way, but it’s something that you’ll be working on for the long term. If you can get yourself out of the habit of thinking about going on a diet and doing massive workouts ‘to look good on holiday’ and just focus on being consistently active, then getting ready to go on holiday will be much less stressful (and you’ll have more energy to do more while you’re actually on holiday – bonus!).

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