Time and time again people come to a personal trainer with the story that they’ve no idea why they gain so much weight, and they don’t eat that much, and so the story goes on. We’ve recently put up some information about balancing calories and how to burn them off in the easiest way with home cross trainer equipment.

There’s no point in beating around the bush, you gain weight when you eat too much, relative to the activity you undertake. To put it politely, if you eat the same as someone else, and they cycle to work every day while you sit in the car in traffic (maybe with your Starbucks latte), you’re going to gain more weight than them.

You might want to argue, but its a simple law of the universe – energy cannot be created nor destroyed under normal circumstances, and that includes getting fat. Harsh but true!

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Getting fit can be fun with our approach of making our activities games first and exercise second. It’s common knowledge that boring long sessions in the gym on bikes and treadmills is a recipe for the death of motivation and a return to the couch potato lifestyle you’re trying to escape from.

So, why on earth do we all do it? We sign up for gym memberships, spend a week actually attending, then starting to make the excuses for why we’ll leave it until tomorrow, or need to go and do the shopping first. Before long our feet are up every night again, stuffing pizza into our mouths and piling on any pounds we might have been lucky enough to lose.

Well, it’s time for that to change!

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