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Leanne's Leaving

After 17 great months, Leanne has finally decided to move on. Leanne has been a great help to me over the last year and a half or so. Especially, freeing up my time to be able to finish my e-book, "Axe Adult Acne" and to complete a very large project for The CHEK...

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Lumbar Disc Bulge Rehabilitation Part 2

In my previous post, I promised I would outline for you the current programme I am undertaking. This programme will affectively be weeks 5-8 of the programme . So here it is: I am constantly listening to my body to ensure I am not progressing too fast. After each...

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Lumbar Disc Bulge Rehabilitation

It's now been eight weeks since I first suffered the symptoms of my bulging discs at L4/5 and L5/S1 levels. Since then I have been rehabilitating my back with a three pronged attack. Firstly, I have been taking my more time out, resting more and getting to bed earlier...

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Lumbar Disc Bulge

I am a firm believer that everything in life happens for a reason. This philosophy has stood me in good stead over the last week. The reason I say this is because last Thursday I woke with an ache in my lower spine on the left just above the sacroiliac joint. As I...

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Axe Adult Acne e-book Now Available

I recently blogged to let you know that I would soon be releasing my latest e-book, "Axe Adult Acne". Well, I am now very pleased to say, that the e-book is ready and can be purchased from http://axeadultacne.com. As someone who suffered badly from this problem and...

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2012, What a Year!!!

What a year 2012 was! It certainly had lots of highlights. As a big sports fan, 2012 was an amazing year. Britain had without question the greatest year ever. As a tennis fan, it was great to see Andy Murray end the 76 years of hurt by winning the US Open and the...

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Another IBS Success

Last week I received a testimonial from a client that I helped this year with debilitating IBS. Here it is: Tag Line “Leigh is the answer to all your problems” Leigh was recommend to me by my good friend and boss. I had suffered with daily debilitating IBS-D for 19...

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Another Fertility Success

This week I received a really nice email from a client who I helped with fertility issues. She gave birth to a lovely little girl last month and here is the email she sent me:   Dear Leigh, I hope you are well and gearing down for a relaxing festive season. I...

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Are You Getting to Bed on Time?

On Tuesday evening (UK time) I presented this month's CHEK Webinar. This month's webinar was entitled, "Are You Getting to Bed on Time?" During the webinar I discussed the importance of getting to bed on time with regards to designing exercise programs and for health...

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CHEK Exercise Coach – Lancashire 2012

Last week I had the pleasure of teaching CHEK Exercise Coach at CHEK Europe HQ in Mawdesley, Lancashire. We had a really great bunch of guys who were a pleasure to teach. As always, I pushed the guys beyond their comfort zone, which ultimately is crucial if you are...

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The Big One Down South 2012

This weekend I spoke at The Big One Down South Fitness Convention, near Reading in Berkshire for CHEK Europe along with Team CHEK Presenter Duncan Reeve. I delivered three presentations entitled, "Flatten Your Abs Forever",  "Getting to Bed on Time" and "Crawl Before...

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From Sick Care to Health Care

Last month a great article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. It was entitled, "From Sick Care to Health Care — Reengineering Prevention into the U.S. System". It explained how the current health systems in the USA and the rest of the western world are...

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Fertility Success!

It is always very rewarding to receive positive feedback from clients. Last year I was approached by a client and his wife who were having fertility issues. After two failed IVF treatments, my client's wife was understandably getting very upset. I worked with her for...

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What Do I Do?

I am often asked what do I do. I normally answer based on the types of people I help, such as injury rehabilitation, weight loss, chronic fatigue etc, rather than list my qualifications. However, it normally doesn't take long before I'm asked questions like, "So...

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The Bare Foot Conference

On Saturday, I attended the Bare Foot Conference which was held at The Natural History Museum in central London. I have to say it was the most amazing venue I have ever been to for a conference. I'm not sure that will ever be beaten as a venue in my lifetime. It was...

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CHEK Workshop – Virgin Active Twickenham

Yesterday, I finished a month of delivering "The CHEK Approach to Swiss Ball Training" at Virgin Active Clubs around the UK. If you look at the picture on the left, the club is located in the England Rugby Stadium at Twickenham. It has to be the coolest place to have...

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CHEK Seminars @ Virgin Active

This week on my weekly CHEK Seminar tour of Virgin Active clubs, I visited Manchester and Leeds. It was a long day leaving home at 7am to catch a train from Euston. On arrival in Manchester, I was straight in and begun the CHEK Approach to Swiss Ball Training workshop...

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Working Out, Bikram Yoga and Presenting Workshops

Well, what a week this has been. After a full week of Bikram Yoga last week, I was back in the gym the gym this week. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday I worked out using moderate intensities (8-10 reps) 3 working sets, often combining two movements per exercise, such as...

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New BodyCHEK Team Member

I am very happy to announce a new member to the BodyCHEK team. Leanne has joined me this week as my personal assistant. I have asked Leanne to join the team to allow me to provide an even better and more efficient service to our clientele and to enable us to take on...

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Johnstone Paints Trophy Final @ Wembley Stadium

On Sunday I went to watch the Johnstone Paints Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium. I went to watch my former client Alan Connell who plays for Swindon Town. Swindon were playing against Chesterfield who whilst being in the league above Swindon are looking like being...

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Monsanto Pig Patent

I always try to see the positive side of life, but I also think it is important to make people aware of any potential dangers to health and major cases of injustice (and insanity). It is really important for you to educate yourself as to what is going on the world and...

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Paul Chek’s Gratitude

As a reader of my blog, you'll probably be aware that the person who has had by far the biggest influence on my career has been Paul Chek, the founder of The CHEK Institute. In a series of Paul's recent blogs, he has given gratitude to each of the CHEK Institute...

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CHEK Exercise Coach – Lancashire

Last week, I taught CHEK Exercise Coach at The CHEK Europe Headquarters in Mawdesley, Lancashire. I was very fortunate that I had a great group of students who were all highly self-motivated and worked really hard during the week. I always like to teach in a very...

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The CHEK Conference – Part 4

On the final day of the conference, I managed to see Chris Maund discussing Distance Running for Beginners, Jon Bowskill and Dan Plev discussing the past, present and future of Spinal rehabilitation, Dan Hellman discussing Respiration, Dr William Previte discussing...

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The CHEK Conference – Part 3

The following morning after two late nights in a row, I was starting to feel a little jaded and I still had a to give another presentation that day. The day started with Jade Johnson and Warren Williams showing us how Warren had helped to condition Jade from her...

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The CHEK Conference – Part 2

On awakening the next morning, I didn’t feel too tired and was fired up for the conference to start. Paul Chek opened up proceedings with an emotional presentation entitled “Living the CHEK Lifestyle”. As per usual, Paul entertainingly didn’t start the actual...

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The CHEK Conference

This month, I have to tell you about an amazing experience I had at The CHEK Conference in San Diego, California. I had such a great time, both professionally and personally. In fact, right now the jet-lag is just about wearing off, but the feel-good factor of the...

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The Food of Choice

If you've read my recent blogs, you will know that I recently took the Mediator Release Test to find out what foods my immune system is reacting too and therefore causing internal damage. So I was faced with a few challenges as every body is when required to eliminate...

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Recent BodyCHEK Workshops

Over the last two weeks, I have taught three workshops across 4 days and two separate weekends. Firstly, on 16th April, I taught my "understanding the Core" Workshop. I taught a group of exercise professionals the importance of functional anatomy of the core, how it...

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New "MT Coaching Success" Program

Wow, has half the month almost already gone? Time has flown this month! Today was a very special day. Today was the launch of my new online coaching program, "MT Coaching Success".  It has been nine months of hard work, long days and an extremely steep learning curve....

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My Injury Rehab Progress

It's been a while since I first posted about my shoulder and knee injuries. Since then, I have been carrying out two to three corrective exercises programmes in the gym each week. I have been getting to bed a little earlier than usual. This week I am averaging over...

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