beginners
You've been meaning to sort this out since June. There are several options within a short drive, the websites all look similar, and you've read them all twice without getting closer to a decision.
Support Systems
An app costs about a tenth of what coaching costs and it will give you a programme that's better written than most of what people do on their own. I'd rather someone trained off an app than wandered around a gym for a year. But be clear about what it can and can't do.
beginners
We've all been there, the clock running out with everyone else finished, and you still going.
CrossFit
There are several gyms within ten minutes of Amersham station and their websites all say roughly the same thing. Equipment, opening hours, a photo of someone on a treadmill. None of that is the decision you're making.
Support Systems
It's the last day of the summer holidays. Tomorrow the term starts, the diary resets, and for about a week everyone in Amersham is open to doing things differently. That window is short. If you've read this blog through August — the fear of being the worst
Support Systems
Most gyms sell you a membership and a door code. We don't, because it doesn't work for the person we're built for — someone who hasn't trained in years and is nervous about starting. Hand that person a door code and a timetable
Active Ageing
There's a cost to meaning to. Nobody puts a number on it, so it feels like nothing — a decision sitting harmlessly on a shelf, available whenever you're ready. So here is the number. From around thirty-five, an adult who does no resistance training loses somewhere
Support Systems
The hardest thing you'll do all week is the ten seconds on a Sunday evening where you open the app and put your name against a class on Wednesday, knowing Wednesday-you will be annoyed about it. That is the rep that decides everything. The training itself is
Active Ageing
I get asked this in the car park about once a week, usually by someone in their fifties, usually with an apology attached to the question. Yes. And I'll answer it from the register rather than from theory. We've been coaching people over fifty in this
Support Systems
The sentence I hear more than any other isn't on the gym floor. It's on the phone, on a first call, about four minutes in, usually with a slight laugh to take the edge off. "I just don't want to be the worst
Support Systems
If you've driven past our unit on Raans Road and wondered what goes on in there, then talked yourself out of finding out, this is for you. People picture the internet version of CrossFit: ripped twenty-five-year-olds throwing barbells around a warehouse. That exists. It isn&
CrossFit
If you've recently moved to Amersham or one of the surrounding Chiltern villages and "gyms near me" is open in a browser tab, here's something worth knowing before you pick one on price and parking. The gym you choose in a new area isn&