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04.12.21
Exercise is Not for Weight Loss
Exercise is amazing. In fact, it is so amazing, I have spent lots of money building a gym at my …
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09.22.20
Calorie Calculator
Have you ever wondered how many calories you should be eating to either lose fat, gain muscle or ma…
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09.21.20
Maintenance Is Progress
Very rarely do you find someone with a goal to maintain their current bodyweight, and it’s a sham…
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07.09.20
Motivation – How to Find it!
After months of searching down the back of the sofa, in the cupboard and in the mystery box under t…
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06.30.20
Steph Lost 16 lbs to get her Pre Baby Body Back!
This story started at the beginning of 2020. Steph was gifted some online personal training…
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06.16.20
What should I do if I Overeat?
In between endlessly scrolling social media, letting Peppa pig be the third parent and going for wa…
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05.11.20
What is the best workout split?
With exercise, everyone has a unique opinion and is very fast to share it with you as the best meth…
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05.05.20
More reps or heavier weight?
With everyone stuck at home and a worldwide shortage on weights heavier than 10kg, an alternative a…
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05.05.20
What should I do if the scales stop moving?
How often have you stepped on the scales after a week of near perfection, to see limited to no prog…
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04.23.20
Is fruit bad for you?
Fruit has somehow turned into a controversial food group. Some fuckers just want to ruin everything…
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04.02.20
How to stay fit whilst working from home
Working from home is this romantic idea of snuggling up in your pjs on the sofa, whilst tapping a f…
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02.11.20
Is it just calories in vs. calories out?
I talk about calories a lot! “Calories are the most important factor for fat loss” “Co…
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01.22.20
Breakfast in less than 15 minutes
Breakfast is an important meal in the day, but not any more so than any other of the meals. It has …
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01.18.20
3 Tasty But Healthy Lunch Recipes
Leafy greens, chopped tomatoes, cucumber and a dash of misery. The good old trusty salad. Guarantee…
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01.09.20
What is keto?
The ketogenic diet was first developed in the 1920's as a tool to prevent child epilepsy. Since…
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01.07.20
How do I know if I am making progress?
If you didn’t know where you were going, had no map and no Google maps, how would you know if you…
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01.06.20
Should I Cut Carbs to Lose Weight?
Personally I prefer to use a bread knife or pizza cutter for cutting carbs, but that probably isn…
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01.05.20
How fast can I lose weight?
If you ask the internet or your local fad diet 'guru' this question, they will tell you that you ca…
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01.03.20
What to do about the January rush in the gym
Busy gyms, packed out car park and classes are fully booked. I can already here some dickheads tutt…
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01.02.20
How to set a goal you will actually achieve
The time has come to set a new goal, a new target and promise you won’t be the same dickhead you …
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12.26.19
Dan lost a stone in weight using online personal training
Dan is a manager at a busy company and has two young kids at home. Spare time is a distant memo…
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12.13.19
Stuart lost over 2 stone and beat the beer belly with online personal training
Stuart is a hard working dad, works away during the week and has struggled with his weight for …
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12.09.19
Steve achieved great results with online personal training
Steve is a busy man, working shifts with a small child at home (and another on the way!). T…
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11.25.19
5 Reasons NOT to get 6 Pack Abs
6 pack abs are massively overrated! Whilst my current body condition can be described as “some…
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11.07.19
How to Stay Fit With a Family
Having a family, keeping a job and holding desperately onto any social life is an uphill battle as …
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10.19.19
How to Stay Active This Winter
The temperature has dropped off a cliff, it is permanently raining and it is getting dark earlier. …
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10.13.19
Flexible Dieting
Flexible dieting is a sensible approach to dieting and is by far my favourite. I am not a big fan o…
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10.08.19
Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day?
For years we have been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It will “boost …
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09.29.19
How to NOT be a Dick in the Gym
This is a personal bug bear of mine, as I hear almost all of my clients moaning about ‘that guy (…
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09.26.19
Do I Need a Protein Shake?
Protein shakes seem to be the staple gym accessory. Towel? Check! Change of clothes? Check! Strange…
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09.20.19
How to Avoid Fad Diets
I completely understand why people sign up and buy into fad diets. People are at rock bottom. They …
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09.18.19
Why Am I Not Losing Weight?
It can be so frustrating not seeing the scales go down despite putting in such a big effort. Instea…
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09.11.19
5 Supplements That Can F*ck Off
Have you ever seen an old clapped out banger of a car with fancy bumpers and a big loud exhaust sla…
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08.28.19
Family Fitness
I want to show you a few ways to help get the family involved and make fitness fun. By getting ever…
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08.27.19
5 Things to do Before you Diet
Our bodies physiology hasn't changed much over the last few thousand years. The laws of thermodynam…
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08.23.19
Starvation Mode
Have you seen on the news recently how yet another third world country is having an obesity crisis …
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08.16.19
Will Cardio Kill My Gains?
The dreaded cardio! The one guaranteed method to make your muscles fall off. Nearly as fast as not …
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08.14.19
How To NOT Fuck Your Diet Up
Everyone starts with good intentions. Motivation is sky high and you are shopping for your next bud…
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08.05.19
How to Ditch the Dadbod
Ahh the good ole dadbod! The slight muffin top overhanging the trousers. The man boobs closely hugg…
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07.27.19
How to Build a Home Gym on a Budget
A swanky air conditioned commercial gym may seem like the most obvious choice to getting fit, but i…
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07.24.19
How to Train With a Physical Job
Don’t you love that feeling of finishing work at 5 and getting down the gym feeling refreshed and…
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05.14.19
Cardio vs. Weights for Fat Loss
It almost seems common knowledge that you need to carry out cardio to lose body fat and lift heavy …
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04.09.19
The Diet Exit Strategy
Yipppeee! Congratulations, the diet is over. You have made it to your goal, you look amazing, y…
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04.02.19
Fast Fat Loss Experiment
I have set myself a goal over the last four weeks, and that is to find out whether slow and steady …
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03.01.19
Sleep and Fat Loss
With the pressure of long working hours, endless digital entertainment at our fingertips and an inc…
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02.13.19
5 Alternative Leg Exercises
There are thousands of variations of leg exercises but you often find that people in a gym tend…
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02.11.19
How to Break the Binge Restrict Cycle?
I see this issue on a regular basis. Monday to Friday is filled with lean protein and veggies. …
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02.07.19
Your Body Doesn’t Like to Lose Weight
The human body is a stubborn little bugger and doesn’t like change. I’m sure we have all ex…
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02.05.19
Mind Muscle Connection
What is mind muscle connection? Mind muscle connection is the ability to concentrate on a mu…
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02.03.19
10 Food Swaps to Help Lower Calorie Intake
When you a trying to lose a few pounds, it can be tempting to make massive restrictions and eat…
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01.27.19
Do you need a cheat meal?
A cheat meal or day is a period of time when you are more relaxed around your food choices. You…
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01.25.19
Fast Food Under 500 Kcals
Friday or Saturday night is the prime time to get a takeaway. Everyone has had a long week at w…
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01.24.19
Drinking Alcohol During Fat Loss
It may not come as a huge surprise to anyone that drinking alcohol whilst trying to lose body fat i…
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01.16.19
8 tips to get the most out of MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal is the go to app for tracking calories and is used by millions of people on a daily ba…
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01.14.19
Portion Control Made Easy
Hands up if you struggle with portion control. Okay, put your hand down now. Every single perso…
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01.08.19
My Top 5 Glute Exercises
It seems that having a big bum is ‘in fashion’ at the moment and I couldn’t be happier. Not f…
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01.08.19
How many calories should I be eating?
Everyone is in search of this mythical number that will unlock all of their secrets and be the …
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12.31.18
Sean Bray Transformation Story
This has been an incredible transformation process to be involved with. The photos taken were t…
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12.29.18
4 goals that are NOT weight related
'New Year, new you' fever is currently sweeping across the nation. Mince pies and left over sau…
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12.29.18
Fat
Fats overview Dietary fat is one of the macronutrients that make up all food (the other two …
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12.02.18
How NOT to turn into a fat bastard over Christmas
The holiday season is upon us and it is now officially acceptable to start eating chocolate for …
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07.31.18
The Hip Hinge
The Hip Hinge The hip hinge is a fundamental exercise and joint movement that is required not only i…
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07.29.18
Fake High Protein Foods
Fake High Protein Foods With the increasing popularity of fitness and wellbeing, the food industry…
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07.24.18
How to increase your fruit and vegetable intake
It’s all well and good knowing that we should eat loads of fruit and veg, but how do we actually e…
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07.19.18
Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting (IF) What is IF? Intermittent fasting has become a popular dieting protocol…
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06.28.18
‘Health’ foods are stopping your fat loss
There are certain foods that are considered ‘healthy’ and are consumed without eve…
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06.24.18
Lucy’s Story
Why did you first join DackAttack? I was becoming despondent about my deteriorating fitness as I en…
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06.10.18
The Gym
The Gym What is DackAttack? The DackAttack gym is a private personal training facility in the heart…
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06.01.18
Jamie Gooch Transformation Story
Jamie Gooch Transformation Story As I’m sure you will agree, Jamie’s progress has been noth…
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05.29.18
Permanent Dieting
Permanent dieting We all know that person that seems to always be on a diet, or you may be that per…
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05.22.18
Privacy Policy
By using our facility and any other Dack Attack services, you unconditionally agree to be bound by t…
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05.11.18
Top 6 Tips to Battle Sugar Cravings
Top 6 Tips to Battle Sugar Cravings Our bodies have a natural desire is to crave sweet foods. I…
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04.02.18
Stress – How to Self-Manage
Stress - How to Self-Manage Gone are the days of being chased by grizzly bears or saber tooth tig…
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01.06.18
Food Diary Tips
Food Diary Tips Filling in a food diary is an excellent tool for losing weight. It makes you accoun…
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12.10.17
Fad Diets -My Stories
Fad diets I completely understand why people go for fad diets, gimmicky products and quick fixe…
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12.01.17
These boots are made for walking
Walking Losing weight can be as easy as putting one foot in front of the other, and that is exa…
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10.15.17
What do you even do? Personal Training
What do you do? We can get so caught up in the minor details of training and nutrition that we forg…
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09.10.17
95% of all people that go onto a diet regain the weight lost
95% of all people that go onto a diet regain the weight lost Study link: http://europepmc.org/abstr…
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04.19.17
Planning – The 6 P’s
Planning Ever heard of the 6 Ps? Prior planning prevents piss poor performance. This saying takes …
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04.06.17
Components of a Workout
Components of a workout We all talk about working out and training in the gym but very rarely …
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03.31.17
Form – Keeping doctors in business since the invention of the gym
Form - Keeping doctors in business since the invention of the gym What is good form? Everyone tell…
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03.28.17
How to prevent late night snacking
How to prevent late night snacking After a long day at work followed by a sweaty hour in the gy…
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03.23.17
Mindset – Should I be happy or strive for more?
Mindset The mind is a crazy place. It fascinates me, baffles me and scares me all the same tim…
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03.16.17
Progressive Overload
Progressive Overload – How to reach any goal The definition of insanity is repeating the same acti…
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03.11.17
Online Personal Training
Online Personal Training Personal training is usually associated with the trainers in a gym, but the…
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03.09.17
Strength Training
Strength Training Strength training should be in everyone’s training plan. If you are y…
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03.02.17
Cardio
Cardio - Was it designed by the devil? What is cardio? Cardio comes from the Greek word kardi…
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02.23.17
NEAT – The secret to fat loss
What is NEAT? NEAT stands for non-exercise activity thermogenesis. What does that mean? NEAT is …
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02.16.17
Hunger – How to beat it!
Starving Marvin, hungry hippo or got the munchies. Whatever you call it we have all experienced hun…
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02.09.17
The only way to lose fat
The only way to lose fat I hate the word “diet”! For most people the word diet usually means cu…
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01.26.17
Protein
Protein What is protein? Protein is one of the macro-nutrients contained within food, along with…
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01.19.17
Is Breakfast the most important meal of the day?
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day…right? Well maybe the old…
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01.12.17
Weight training for fat loss
Weight training for fat loss When people mention that they want to lose wei…
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01.05.17
Good food vs bad food
Good food vs bad food With New Year in full swing most people have dedicate…
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12.21.16
New Year new you and new excuses
New Year new you and new excuses Don't be a superhero in January (like my cat Gary). …
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12.15.16
Booze Belly – How does alcohol affect fat loss?
Booze Belly – How does alcohol affect fat loss? It only seems right to ta…
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12.08.16
Don’t be a festive fatty!
Don’t be a festive fatty! WARNING: This is a bit ranty at times; …
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12.01.16
Are you drinking yourself fat?
Are you drinking yourself fat? After returning from an all-inclusive holida…
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11.24.16
Restriction
Restriction No matter what the latest fitness ‘guru’ is telling you, you can’t eat pizza and …
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11.17.16
Don’t Trust the Scales
Don’t trust the scales The mysterious dusty creature that lives in your bathroom has the ability…
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11.10.16
Gym 101
Gym 101 A weird and wonderful place filled with interesting creatures from far and wide. People fro…
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10.27.16
Keep It Simple Stupid
Keep It Simple Stupid With everyone trying to stand out from the crowd and attract po…
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10.20.16
Building muscle -10 Reasons why it isn’t happening
Building Muscle - 10 Reasons why it isn't happening We have all been there. Slogging away for month…