Miscellaneous Musings

Nick regularly contributes to a section of Men's Health that deals with personal trainer rants about bad habits.   Unsurprisingly he has a lot to say!  The following article featured in the in the personal training / fitness sectionSeptember 2008 Men's Health magazine. It’s neither big nor clever When Men’s Health asked me to contribute my own thoughts on those in...

By Kat Eden It’s been a decade now since I began my life as a Personal Trainer.  And about 2 or 3 years longer than that since I started hanging out in gyms and around ‘fitness people’. I’ve worked with clients of just about every fitness level you can imagine – from those who could barely walk from one end of the gym to the other when they started out, right...

This personal training article was first written by Nick Mitchell for AskMen.com. The Top Ten Things & People To Avoid in the Gym 1) People who are at the gym to make friends If your training takes more than an hour you are socialising more than you are working out.  In between sets keep your head down, your mind focused, and take note that cortisol levels rise and testosterone le...

Utrinque Paratus- Ready For Anything There is a groan, there is sweat all over your t-shirt and you feel like the pain is never going to stop. You have me shouting and pushing you to do one more length of the sprint track with the weighted sled. You have two options...stop and fall to floor while gasping for breath and give up the fight, or pull yourself together and push yourself past the pai...

By Nick Mitchell Set Goals This is rather an obvious point but nonetheless one that far too many people choose to ignore.  If you set off in your car without having an end destination in mind exactly where would you end up?  Most likely it would be nowhere. Set a series of specific milestones and use them to inspire you to dream and to motivate you as each small step leads you to ...

By Nick Mitchell It’s a terrible thing to admit but sometimes I am embarrassed to say that I am in the personal training industry. This is a particularly strange and complex feeling for me as I very rarely, if ever, meet anyone who communicates quite the same passion and zeal that I possess for all things related to health, fitness, and helping people get into the best possible shape. In...

The following is part of a recent interview that Nick Mitchell gave to the online training journal, Raw Grip. The magazine's editor was looking for a top personal trainer...fortunately he wasn't looking for political correctness as well! Its interview time again but this time it’s with the leading London based personal trainer / strength and conditioning coach, Nick Mitchell, who is ta...

I have an admission to make - the above title is very misleading title as in truth diets don't ever fail, it's the people who implement them who come up short. You already know that the key to success isn't to "diet" at all, rather its to change your bad habits into good ones, so lets take a quick look at why it’s so hard to stick to the plan. I actually think that this subject ...

By Nick Mitchell I must come clean when it comes to drugs such as anti depressants I have absolutely zero personal experience. I have never been depressed, and God willing I never will. I appreciate that anything that can help people to deal with the dark despair that sometimes proves to be too overwhelming is nothing but a good thing, and take this subject very seriously. For some reason, her...

By Nick Mitchell It’s that time of year again when thoughts turn to the future and the road ahead is filled with nothing but good intentions.   Understandably this is also a very busy period for someone in my profession as we see countless people eagerly bounding through our doors enthusiastically seeking to “drop some fat”, “put on some muscle” and &ldq...

By Nick Mitchell The following article is a reprint of an interesting motivational piece for personal trainer and personal training client alike.  Success on any fitness regime, be it a 4 week blast or a 4 year long haul, all centres around the power of focus and keeping a positive mindset.  Trying to buck the norm, eat differently, go to the gym religiously all seem to aggravate cer...

The internet is a seething mass of information and it can be a daunting experience trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of what is interesting and valid, from what is quite simply a waste of your brain capacity and time.   I have a few favourites, but one that stands out is the excellent Peak Performance Online site.  What it lacks in specific body composition specialisation (...