So after a holiday in which she gained some weight but not as much as expected, L.I-W has worked hard and lost a couple of kgs in a week which is brilliant, well done to her. I should mention that both our sessions last week were not without plenty of sarcastic comment from her, moaning about me being cruel, jealous due to not having been on holiday myself and generally in a bad mood to to a dreadful start to the cricket season, all of which was of course true. …

For those that don’t know I write the health section for Model Advice. After the first month of MA-gazines success its onto the second month and exercises focused on bums and thigh for the summer. We are adding small exercise videos for the two exercises of the month (as per on this website) to better show the required technique. Having  emailed across a couple of videos with me demonstrating the exercises they have seem to have noticed that my face is better suited to radio and asked for one of my female instructors to demonstrate them. …

The new baby (Rory Edward White) arrived on Wednesday afternoon and with my short paternity leave now over will shall see how sleep deprivation effects the quality of personal training sessions. Back to work and hoping for some warmer weather so we can really begin the much looked forward outdoor fitness training sessions. Just a short one today, I will let you know how things go during the week. Many thanks, Michael.

The cricket seasons starting very late for me this year, in fact the latest I’ve started in 20 years of playing. This is not due to injury or not being selected for the team or anything, but all because we have a second baby due today. Thus my first fixture is not until Wedneday the 5th of May, oh the stress, what if he’s late? what if I’m batting when the phone call comes? (like my uncle was when my cousin Tom was being born). Should I really be so …

I got a call last week from a the editor of a new magazine called models advice asking me to write their health section. This sounded like a good opportunity for some advertising but also to get sensible advice out their for both current and aspiring models who are renowned for having food and exercise issues. The idea is to promote the fact that you can look good and lead a normal healthy lifestyle without the extremes of both too strict a diet and over exercising. You don’t need to …