RISE Macclesfield, Unit 7 Waterside Mill, Waterside, Macclesfield (2025)

10/09/2025

RISE daily Session feedback - 10th September

10/09/2025

Awesome work from Mark as he hits his 350th Session with us!

10/09/2025

Awesome work from Mark as he hits his 350th Session with us!

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10/09/2025

Quick Rocky Road maths (read this if you find food tracking a "faff")

The other day my middle son asked him if we could bake some Rocky Road.

I picked up some ingredients from the shop and, despite being slightly confused how buying the constituent ingredients is considerably more expensive than just buying some Rocky Road, we set about making it.

Whilst serving for pudding that evening my wife wondered out loud how many calories were in each slice.

I was just about to punch it into MyFitnessPal when I had an idea I thought I'd try.

I spoke out loud into ChatGPT "work out the total calories in the following food and then also divided by 16. 400 grams white chocolate. 50 grams unsalted butter. 125 grams Bischoff spread. 150 grams mini marshmallows. 250 grams Bischoff biscuits"

Within about one second it gave me the answer of a total of 4,943 calories for the entire tray and 309 per portion (as we'd divided it in a 4x4 grid).

I'm surprised it's actually taken me this long to realize that's something we can ask AI to do.

Took literally a handful of seconds from reaching into my pocket to having the answer.

People often tell me that the reason they don't track their food is "it's too much of a faff".

"It takes too long".

"It's too difficult and time consuming" when they "make a lot of things from scratch".

And whilst I would always question that, as it normally takes a few tens of seconds to maybe a minute or two at most........

AI has now blown that out of the water.

We can now all get a free app on our phone that we can talk into and describe what we're eating and, provided there's enough detail, it will give us a pretty accurate amount of calories (or carbs, protein, fat or whatever else we're wanting to keep track of) in it.

We can keep adding to the same conversation throughout the day to get a daily total.

Takes literally seconds.

I've just tested by asking it to give me the calories in various different homemade dishes, shop purchases, fast food, etc and they all seem pretty accurate.

If we don't want to do it, then that's fine.

But there really is no reason for us ever to say "I don't know why I'm not losing weight"........

When we can just talk into our phone for a few seconds a day and find out why (or help us create a bit of accountability to different choices if we already know).

Much love,

Jon 'Married to AJ' Hall

P.S. For approaches as easy and 'done for you' as possible (you can just turn up and be told what to do and coached through it for the exercise, then jump on the risk-free trial by commenting below or sending me a DM to find out more. Or keep telling yourself you're "too busy" and nothing changes.

09/09/2025

RISE daily Session feedback - 9th September

09/09/2025

"RISE motivates me. The Personal Trainers and group colleagues make this establishment unique. Support, friendship and motivation has changed my world. I feel RISE and my friends are a huge inspiration" - awesome work from Alison as she passes her 200th Session with us!

Get details at www.myrise.co.uk/info to see how you too could make lasting changes to your life and body whilst having fun with like minded people in an intimidation free atmosphere!

09/09/2025

There's no point doing short term things

Last "There's no point....." blog (I haven't thought of any others for now).

And this one is about there being 'no point in doing things short-term'.

Now, I'm all for long-term change.

But long term change doesn't mean that we do the same thing all the time

As I've said many times before, results come not when things go perfectly, but when we become okay with slowing down and speeding up as circumstance dictates.

Rather than stopping and starting again.

Longer term change can involve periods of faster and slower progression.

And maybe even a few regressions in there.

Three steps forward, one step back always being better than one step forward, two steps back.

Maybe when logistics are a little easier

Maybe when we're just feeling it a bit more.

We can do things that we don't intend to do for the rest of our lives, but will make us some good forward progress right now.

And then transition back into something longer term.

Short term stuff is absolutely fine (it's why we do a 4 week trial to start - it's feels doable, gets great results and creates buy-in to longer term changes. Comment below or send me a DM to find out more when you've had enough of sliding backwards and eternally putting change off)

As long as it fits into a longer term picture that works.

Much love,

Jon 'weather forecast' Hall

08/09/2025

RISE daily Session feedback - 8th September

08/09/2025

"Everyone being so supportive at RISE and not feeling judged when completing work outs- everyone's doing their own thing, and making friends there has helped me to keep going - great work from Vaila as she passes her 200th Session with us at RISE!

08/09/2025

"Everyone being so supportive at RISE and not feeling judged when completing work outs- everyone's doing their own thing, and making friends there has helped me to keep going - great work from Vaila as she passes her 200th Session with us at RISE!

Get details at www.myrise.co.uk/info to see how you too could make lasting changes to your life and body whilst having fun with like minded people in an intimidation free atmosphere!

08/09/2025

There’s no point trying again as I failed every other time

Second to last "There's no point......" blog now.

Unless I think of some more, I suppose.

And again, it's one that I get.

But, again, one that I will question.

The feeling there's no point in carrying on trying when it's not worked before.

There's no point trying to lose weight when we've lost it before and regained it, for example.

And I think there's a few things to consider here.

Whilst one step forward, one step back obviously wouldn't be our first choice.......

It's better than just one (or more) step back.

Periods of progression and regression are better than just regression.

Those forwards steps still put us in a better position than if we hadn't had them at all.

Losing then gaining weight and being the same or a stone up is better than just being four stone up.

Fitness and energy up and down is better than just fitness and energy down.

We will always be better off by trying (and trying again) than by not trying.

The second consideration might be around changing the approach.

And that might be partly what we actually do but possibly also more how we think about it and describe it.

Just approaching something in the same way as before will likely lead to the same results.

Maybe tweaking to a knowingly suboptimal version, that we feel we can maintain, will lead to better overall results than that theoretically slightly better version that we're very stop-start on. (That's what we do. And month after month for 13 years it produces success after success whilst those that advertise that they're better than us, well..... don't. Comment below or send me a DM to find out more)

That's working smarter, not harder.

Much love,

Jon 'Matt and Meg' Hall

07/09/2025

"I thought I would be exhausted after each session, but actually, I leave feeling great and lighter on my feet!" - great stuff from Jamie as he completes his first 5 Sessions at RISE as is already feeling the benefits!

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