We've talked in the past about ankle strength and stability, but this exercise is a fun way to see how your balance can improve.

You’d think by the time we get to our 30’s and 40’s that we’d have this old exercise thing down. We’d have figured out what to do at the gym and know the kinds of sports we enjoy.

As as all know, life is set to challenge us. Last week was no exception for me, so I've set a more realistic fitness challenge for you all this week. 

The plank challenge. 

How Long Can You Hold A Dead Hang?

A dead hang is a straightforward exercise that simply involves hanging from an overhead bar for as long as possible. It’s a great way to develop grip strength and can help you master pull ups.

I have a challenge for you this week - how many medicine ball slams can you do in 1 minute?

Read on to learn the best technique and to get an idea of the number of repetitions to aim for.

This is a great challenge to take you into the new year and a good exercise to look at the explosive power in your legs. 

Over the last few years lots of gyms and got more plyobox's available for you to use.

Depending on how kind they are will mean they either have the softer foam boxes or the hard wooden box more metal step, which are likely to leave you with some nice cuts or bruises is you misjudge the height you're jumping.

This is a great question and one that loads of clients ask. 

Its like the holy grail of training, everybody wants to know how long you can Plank for. 

What a busy couple of weeks. last week I took sometime away to spend with my family. We took Monty to Peppa Pig World and went into the New Forest for some exploring. It was great to recharge the batteries and see the excitement on his face as he met Peppa and George and trying out new activities.

How's your training gone this week, I can't believe we're 3 months into the year and race season is nearly upon us.

As today is pancake day and tomorrow is valentines day and you all know I love a good challenge so here it is for you.

Lots of my clients come to me wanting and knowing they need to strengthen their core.

First off this week is a MASSIVE congratulations to everybody who took part in the Robin Hood Half and Marathon at the weekend. Seeing all of the pictures and hearing all about it is so inspirational and great to see so many people support and cheer along the course.

Over the weekend and epic bunch of ladies took part in The Suffering Race aiming to get LEGEND status.

It's that time of the month where I set you guys a challenge to do.

I have a challenge for you. I'm going to be getting my clients to take up the challenge too. Are you up for it?

This month I want to see how long you can hold a wall squat for. It's a super simple exercise to do as the only equipment you need is a flat piece of wall or a door.

As most of you know at the weekend I held another Pull Up workshop.

From the moment launched the new date it was fully booked that morning!

These ladies were quick to act and they were amazing.

I have recovered from my race and the the bruises have finally gone down, my legs no longer look like they have been kicked.

Im going to keep it short and sweet this week as I have a challenge for you at the end of this.

For his latest film Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds completed intense training with his Personal Training Bobby Storm, even if he has commented it is only a fraction of what Hugh Jackman has to do for Wolverine.

Reynolds transformed his body for his role in Blade Trinity, piling on the muscle and reducing his body fat percentage, this background meant he knew the hard work he would have to put in to create the character Deadpool. He focused a lot on functional fitness, using equipment like the TRX, BOSU bands to work his core muscles. This was incorporated with kickboxing to add in the martial arts and strengthening and stretching with yoga.