It is very tempting as a husband/partner to bro science this part of your life. This has potentially dangerous consequences for your partner and future child. I was a full time coach for 12 years and I have several certifications in advanced rehabilitation. I helped heart transplant patients carefully rehab themselves. I was right in there when the game was dangerous. I also spent years helping organise the care of pregnant women in Aqua Natal and Pregnancy Pilates but that was the height of my knowledge. Agata, Jacqui, Lisa, Roisin, Eileen and Jessica delivered the evidence based classes and guidance. My records showed that I helped one lady with supervised training whilst she was pregnant. I wasn’t the physical activity expert my wife needed so I did the next best thing I rang a few old friends and found the right experts in Dublin. I made the first appointment and after that Julie followed through with the exercise regime. The reality now is Julie more adept than me in this area of exercise science. My advice is encourage with the guidelines above but I wouldn’t as a partner be the coach. We’re out of our league here lads.

Cardiac Rehab is the “co-ordinated sum of interventions required to ensure the best physical, psychological and social conditions so that the patient with chronic or post acute cardiovascular disease(CVD) may, by their own efforts, preserve or resume optimal functioning in society and, through improved health behaviours, slow or reverse progression of disease. “(Taylor et al., 2004).

This was my pitch to the Mardyke Arena UCC in 2013. It’s also the reason I now advocate that every scientist be required to complete a business module. The General Manager and I were worlds apart here. It was at it’s essence a great idea do some exercise and see what it does for your health. I can here scientists yelling heretic through the screen. Too many robust scientific discoveries have died in the lab. I took this one out of the lab, out of the hospital and moved it into a Business Model built in online tracking, data analytics and if I’d had my way AI would have been next.

Subtract low quality high glycemic index food or add high quality low glycemic food. I prefer adding concentrate on adding the positive food. I often get clients to visualize themselves eating their way to a weightloss goal. If you think about it how else are you going to get there? At some point you will need to eat.

DUMB goals don’t solve problems they overwhelm them.

The smart goal system is exactly that “a system”. Below is how to deploy the system. SMART goals are by design precise and that precision maximizes the goals efficiency to increase the goals resilience. The SMART goals are built for the heat of battle forensically removing barriers and propelling you forward. I know Mike Tyson said “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” but the SMART system make that mouth Iron and breaks Mikes hand it’s built to be tough

What campaign manager meant in reality was 15 or 18 hour days including my job and when it got hard I remembered rule 1 ‘Man the f**k up’. For Julie it was 10 times worse. She had to deliver enthusiasm and effective communication at every door email, online post, social media comment, text, call and letter. She literally went through thousands of job interviews in the space of 6 months and then less than 50% of people turned out to vote.