WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS GREAT EVENT IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS TIME Washbrook farm at Doddington near Cambridge completes the final obstacle course race of 2014. With the ability to get creative, you can expect more man made mud pits, hay bale climbs and pond wades.         We’re going for […]

Circuit training can incorporate everything you need into one workout and do it very effectively. By combining strength and cardio exercises into a single workout it really does tick all the right boxes for getting you in fitter and burning up excess body fat. But don’t just take my word for it, here’s what other […]

I’t just two weeks now until the No Fad Fitness team take part in Insane Terrain’s fantastic mud race at Wash Brook Farm in Doddington. We will have entrants in both the 5 and 10km events and we’ve all been training hard to get fit for this fun event. This is one of the muddiest […]

Too Fat To be Seen Exercising? Something I have often heard as a reason for not exercising is that people are too embarrassed of their current body shape to go to the gym, or go out running. This doesn’t just apply to those who are very over weight but is often cited by people who […]

Wow! What a killer weekend. I have just finished a very intense training weekend of circuit based training. No less than four different circuit classes on Saturday and nine training classes on Sunday. I am now hurting in places I didn’t know I had, but it has been fantastic. I have had my memory thoroughly […]

High Intensity Training (HIT) If you have been following news and current affairs programs you will have noticed that the obesity epidemic is a regular topic, as are debates about the best way to deal with it and help people to lose weight. One of the newer ideas is HIT, High Intensity Training or HIIT […]

BEGINNERS, HOW TO BECOME A RUNNER! I have been looking at some beginner guides for running and what I found was enough to put off and dishearten anyone. Schedules worked out on spreadsheets with rigid day after day instructions on what to do. For the most part they are utter rubbish! Why? Well simply because […]

SPORADIC EXERTIONAL RHABDOMYOLYSIS- READ THIS IF YOU RUN WITH YOUR DOG! On a recent run my Greyhound/ Deerhound cross was lagging behind and eventually I stopped and we rested a while before walking home. Normaly he will run 20k with me without any problems. Later that night I noticed his urine was a very dark […]

I was supposed to be running a 10k event today organised by a local club but, there is a bit of snow on the ground so they cancelled it. I was very disappointed as this was to be my first competitive event and I had been anticipating it all week. So as I was expecting […]