The Unseen Advantage: Why Online Personal Training Outshines Traditional Gym-Based Approaches

In traditional face-to-face training, specializing in a niche area limits the pool of potential complementary clients. This is an unavoidable dilemma based simply on the restricted number of people in any given gym or locality. This necessitates that a trainer aims to attract the broadest audience possible. Achieving this requires a broad, albeit shallow, knowledge…

ByJames Gleeson17/04/2025

The Health Benefits of Fasting – Is It Sustainable And Is It Safe?

“The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.” Tariq Ramadan The long association between human beings and food has a common theme: scarcity. Our metabolic machinery has been moulded over…

ByJames Gleeson26/02/2025

Food & Drink Relationships

Reinvigorating Our Passion For Cooking And Real Food

“Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to…

ByJames Gleeson02/12/2024

Health Nutrition

Is Bread Bad for You? Read The Quick History of Wheat

The wonder and the complexity of the modern world has as its foundation ancient grains. Some ten thousand years ago, for the first time in history, mankind was able to settle in the ‘fertile crescent’ on the banks of the river Nile, sow seeds and grow crops, thus dispensing with a life subsumed by the…

ByJames Gleeson18/11/2024

Fitness Health Nutrition Relationships

Starting A Diet Program To Lose Weight ? Don’t Believe the Naysayers

Unconditional support and encouragement. That’s what you might expect when embarking on a quest for fat loss. And you would often be wrong. Badly. In fact, so far wrong would you be that outright sabotage is what’s possible, not only from colleagues, but family and close friends too. Why? Do those closest to you want…

ByJames Gleeson10/11/2024

Health

The Science Behind Fat Loss: Breaking The Addiction To Sweets

Being swept up in addictions associated with food have deep causative roots within our psyche. The origins of these primaeval compulsions to eat sweet, high-calorie foods are so deeply embedded, and so much a part of the architecture of the mind that they've dissolved into the well of our belief systems, leaving us mystified as…

ByJames Gleeson10/11/2024

Fitness Health Mood and Mind Nutrition Wellness & Health

The Key To Healthy Anti Ageing – What You Need To Know

In this world there are innumerable things one may wish for, varying according to age, nationality, culture, sex, political affiliation, mental disposition, intellectual level, physical prowess, world view, even sexual proclivity. Underpinning them all, however, are two things without which all else is meaningless: Potential for longevity and quality of life. Rarely considered is that the…

ByJames Gleeson07/11/2024

Wellness & Health

When Good Intentions Go Bad

James Gleeson takes a closer look at political correctness, plus size models & medals for everyone We are living through the slow motion detonation of unintended consequences. The shocking racism, misogyny, sexual harassment and “fat shaming” of previous generations was in dire need of redress, but the cure of political correctness has spawned unimaginable problems…

ByJames Gleeson04/11/2024

Destinations Entertaining & Wine Food & Drink Travel & Leisure

Sydney’s Most Under The Radar Restaurants

Here is my Foodie's Guide to the top restaurants in Sydney, starting with the h igher End of the restaurant scene: Raita Noda http://www.raitanoda.com.au/ Japanese fusion. No menu degustation. Tiny and very intimate. Unique. Just sit down and the food will come to you. 10 courses. About 3 hr experience. Excellent sake. Special…

ByJames Gleeson04/11/2024

Fitness Health Nutrition Nutrition Wellness & Health

The Real Benefits Of Fasting

“After reviewing the research, I have come to the conclusion that short-term intermittent fasting was not only an effective and easy way to lose unwanted body fat, but it was also associated with many amazing health benefits.” Dr. Brad Pilon In dozens of peer-reviewed scientific studies, short-term intermittent fasting has been found to have the following…

ByJames Gleeson03/11/2024