When Daniel Craig emerged from the sea in his first James Bond film Casino Royale, the actor we knew had been replaced by a lean, muscular killing machine who made the previous 007s look touchingly vulnerable by comparison. Ironically, I have no interest in training like a movie star or doing some intense 10 week boot camp. So, what’s with the 5 stars, Bill? Read on. Way too light on details, and really vague. Nice to see the workout designed for people and the 5-2 bit was helpful but otherwise hard to actually design a workout based on this. I was really hopeful for some sort of manual for designing workouts and was left underwhelmed from that respect. The programme never asks the average person to take on technically demanding and possibly damaging exercises. 4. Create athleticism

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Founded by David Wells in 1996, as a personal training company, Intelligent Fitness has evolved to deliver an unrivalled range of professional instructor training.

Good book for beginners. This is a good principle: “train for performance, not aesthetics. The aesthetics will follow”

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Using 25 years of experience as a performance coach I’m going to give you the tools that you need to be the best version of yourself. I’m going to teach you my approach and my methodology on all thingsfitness. You cannot be another person because you haven’t got their genetics, but you might be able to look or feel or perform even better than they can,” he says. “Use them as inspiring stories to be the best version of yourself.” Seona is a graduate of the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic. Prior to training as a chiropractor she was a personal trainer as well as a remedial and sports massage therapist. Within her current Chiropractic role she is highly effective at helping individuals balance the structure of their bodies; improving their health through optimal function.

All my clients come to me with the same challenge: when they travel, they may not have access to the same facilities they have at home. But you can apply the 5:2 approach anywhere.”