Alcohol and Weight loss It’s February, and that can only mean one thing; Dry January is over….. For some of you, dry January was over the 2nd weekend of January, but we won’t talk about that…. Alcohol is one of the main culprits as to why many struggle with weight loss. In their heads, they don’t drink a lot. The reality is; they do. By a lot, I’m not talking about frequent binges here, I’m more talking to those who ‘only’ have a glass of wine each night, or an ‘odd’ bottle of beer at the end of a hard day’s work. “Sure, you have to live, and they won’t do that much damage”……… Here’s the thin ..read more

If you have been on the internet in the last few months, you will have seen links to different weight loss products that usually start with ‘This one weird Trick’. They usually are aimed at removing belly fat, shrinking your waist, taking a pill or herb to eradicate fat or dropping 20lbs in a week or numerous other ridiculous weight loss myths that are aimed at getting you to click on the link. The thing is, there is already this one weird trick that is proven to help you get results time and time again. CLICK HERE TO GET REAL RESULTS THAT LAST!   Want to lose weight? This will help. Wan ..read more

Building new habits into your daily routine is a great way to help you to get success with your goals. It can take anywhere between 14-28 days for something that is done daily to become a habit. If you have found it difficult to stick to new things in your routine when it comes to your training or diet, there can be two reasons for this. You are trying to do too much at once. You haven’t given it long enough before stopping. Trying to change everything at once usually feed into the reason that people tend to stop before you get started. If you’d like to stay in shape but can’t get to the gym ..read more

Nutrition Myths are everywhere! They are online and you will hear them in work and even at home. I’m sure there will be at least one of these that you have heard before and probably believed or might still believe. Hopefully this will help to dispel some of these and clear up any confusion there may be surrounding them. If you are looking to get in shape after the lockdowns, we help our Rushe Fitness and online Habi-Fit ladies have success with thier diets in a simple and easy way. Want to get in shape from home? CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW! CARBS WILL MAKE YOU FAT. This is often one of the m ..read more

Ten Thousand steps per day is universally recognised as the target to hit if you want to be active throughout the day and get your steps in. But why Ten Thousand? You might be surprised to hear that the original reason for Ten thousand steps didn’t come from research on health and fitness, but from a marketing campaign done before the 1964 Olympics. The magic number “10,000” dates back to a marketing campaign conducted shortly before the start of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. A company began selling a pedometer called the Manpo-kei: “man” meaning 10,000, “po” meaning steps and “kei” meaning me ..read more

Can doing sit ups or any exercise burn fat from one area of your body and no others? Spot reduction is where people try and use certain exercises to burn fat from stubborn areas of the body. An example of this would be people who do loads of sit ups to try and burn tummy fat, or those influencers on Instagram who tell you to do loads of exercises to try and burn fat of and build your booty. If this was possible, it would make our jobs as coaches much easier. CLICK HERE TO GET REAL RESULTS THAT LAST! But fat loss isn’t as specific as this and unfortunately you can’t burn fat from only one area ..read more

Exercise and weight loss tend to go hand in hand. Whenever people think of exercise, the majority tend to be using it as a tool for getting or staying in shape and for some form of fat loss. But there is so much more to exercise than just a weight loss tool. The benefits are wide ranging, but today I am going to give you 5 reasons you should exercise, that have nothing to do with weight loss. CLICK HERE TO START EXERCISING FROM HOME! It makes you Stronger. When people hear the word strong, they can immediately think of having loads of muscles. But this isn’t the case. Being stronger has many ..read more

Amazing prizes were awarded at Saturday night’s celebration. Letterkenny man Bryan Margey has won a €1,000 holiday after making an outstanding effort in the 2019 Rushe Fitness Summer Shape Up Challenge. The ever-popular Summer Shape Up is Letterkenny’s largest fitness challenge. Led by Rushe Fitness gym owner Emmet Rushe, the programme helps participants get in shape while completing fun challenges to win amazing prizes The end of summer celebration took place on Saturday at Century Complex Letterkenny, where Bryan Margey was announced the Champion in front of over 50 of his fitness family. He ..read more

Fitness Myths are as common as Nutrition Myths. I talked about those in last week’s blog and You can check that out here I’m sure there will be at least one of these fitness myths that you have heard before and probably believed or might still believe, so hopefully this will dispel some of these myths for you. CLICK HERE TO START TRAINING THE RIGHT WAY!   STRENGTH TRAINING WILL MAKE YOU ‘BULKY’. This is often one that you will hear when it comes to females and weight training. This fitness myths still runs through many sporting organisations and many amateur coaches will still tell the ..read more

Diets, what do they all have in common when it comes to weight loss? If you google the word diet, your will get 93 MILLION suggestions that you can click on relating to the term. Diets are a contentious subject and there is so much written about them that most people don’t know where to turn when it comes to choosing one. We teach our Rushe Fitness Letterkenny gym members and Habi-Fit online members how to get in shape without diets. You can find out more through the links below. CLICK HERE FOR OUR LETTERKENNY GYM CLICK HERE TO TRAIN WITH US ONLINE FROM HOME When it comes to dieting people ha ..read more