It’s that time of the year again when the panic sets in and everyone starts worrying about putting on the pounds they’ve spent the last 12 months trying to lose. 

 

For most Christmas spells disaster when it comes to weight loss, between the 23rd of December and 2nd January, we pretty much spend the time drinking excessively and eating anything in sight. 

 

Then as the New Year comes around you’ll tell everyone that ‘this is the year’ that I get in shape. A completely new me, start a diet and start exercising regularly and finally reach that goal weight that you last had in your teenage years. 

 

However, what if I told you to forget all that and focus on the weeks leading up to Christmas… 

The above is pretty much the overall view I have of commercial gyms, I can pretty much walk into most and divide it into sections, ladies doing endless amounts of cardio listening to Roar by Katy Perry in hope of a flat stomach, groups of lads gathered around the bench press, grunting away lifting as much weight as possible, usually with terrible form in the endless pursuit of a big chest and arms. 

 

Horribly stereotypical I know, but anyone who has been to a gym for any length of time will have undoubtedly seen the same sights.