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Over Planning

Over Planning Planning your workout can be a great idea but Over Planning can actually act against you. We plan the time that we are going to workout, the time we have to finish our workout, what we have to wear, what has to be in our…
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Food Is Fuel

Food is fuel, but we abuse food beyond imagination. We treat it like a commodity rather than a necessity. We rely on it to make us feel better, we restrict it to punish ourselves, or 'save' calories for 'treats', we make choices based on…
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Why PTI?

Why did we set up Platinum Training Institute? This is a question that We have to constantly ask ourselves. The answer is always simple: To Help. We don't want to qualify hundreds of Personal Trainers/Coaches - in fact we only have…
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What are you training for?

Let's get a few things straight! You won't have a perfect diet every day, you won't be able to give 100% every single time in every single gym session. You are human. We all have bad days where we fall off the wagon, fail to hit our…
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Tasty Time-bombs

Additives:   Artificial colourings are a dangerous addition to any food.  The instance of colouring our food to make it look more appealing is on the rise and with negative consequences. A large part of the issue is the smokescreen…
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Bodybuilding: WARNING!! Proceed with caution.

    I see it more every day - the obsession with visible abs and trying to achieve superhuman levels of leanness.   We won't be happy until every ab is popping, every sinew visible and our body looks like a roadmap.   Why?…
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Do Not Disturb

Do Not Disturb There is a little button on your iPhone that will revolutionise your life!! Your phone is a distraction in more ways than you can imagine... Can you recall being super focused and engrossed in a task only for your phone…
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All-Consuming…

  Some people are never satisfied, it's an affliction of modern life. They always want more and live in a constant state of unrest and discontentment. No matter what they buy or own, it's never enough, they always want more... There…
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Doggy Treats

Why (Some) Rewards don't work…   The idea of a food reward for doing exercise is inherently flawed because the crux of a reward is that you are rewarding yourself for something you wouldn't otherwise be doing! This is counterproductive…