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Giveaway – Win A signed Copy of Jessie Pavelka’s New Book The Programme

May 10, 2016 9:30 am Published by Leave your thoughts

We are proud to announce the release of The Programme, a guide to healthy living from our ambassador Jessie Pavelka. To be in with a chance of winning a copy signed by Jessie himself; just like and retweet the pinned post on the @CloudtagTrack Twitter page. For more information on The Programme see below: In The Programme, Jessie, popular fitness expert and star trainer of The Biggest Loser, delivers a practical guide for being healthy, living well and losing weight based on four essential building blocks Jessie has found to be key to lasting success with countless clients: *EAT: flavourful and healthy recipes using basic, common ingredients that are high protein and low in sugar and carbs *SWEAT: a high-intensity interval training programme and morning workouts that yield quick results *THINK: easy-to-use exercises that combine elements of yoga, biometrics and mindfulness *CONNECT: the book will help you build the strong relationships you need to foster a healthier life and readers will be able to share their progress and struggles with an online community that will launch with the book.


Q&A with Jessie Pavelka –A Sum-up

March 17, 2016 10:03 am Published by Leave your thoughts

On behalf of Cloudtag and Jessie, we’d like to thank everyone who took part in the health and Fitness Q&A we did last month. There were some great questions and we are so glad that we managed to help some of you along the road to your fitness goals.


Introducing: Cloudtag Track – Shape Your Future

January 6, 2016 3:03 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

At CES in Las Vegas on 6 December, Cloudtag is launching its new wearable fitness tracker, the CloudTag Track™. The product, founded on ten years of medical research, targets consumers who want a cost effective and efficient way of being in control of achieving their own weight loss and fitness goals, whilst also receiving guidance to help keep them on track to do so.


Relapse

March 2, 2015 3:50 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

The word relapse is not motivational. The title of my blog is not motivational. I could make a play on “re-lapping” but I won’t. I’d also like to make clear that in this instance I am not referring to addictions, although relapse is very relevant in that context.


The Carrot and the Stick

February 12, 2015 1:35 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

The paradox of change. I called this blog “the carrot and the stick” because this dynamic is still the primary way most of us set up our health and fitness goals which goes something like this:


Start With The End In Mind

December 26, 2014 12:02 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

A favourite coaching maxim, “starting with the end in mind” is a sound approach to getting as much direction and clarity as possible when we start our adventure. No, I don’t mean start with the last piece of cake first, or have an argument now in case you have one later, although that cake does look good…


Take it to the Mat

December 22, 2014 11:47 am Published by Comments Off on Take it to the Mat

I have connections all over the world and enjoy some cracking contact and conversations with people, some of whom I haven’t even met.


The Time is Now

November 27, 2014 10:56 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Mastery asks us to proceed regardless of the outcome. Mastery asks us to harness the process, the immediate task of getting going and of learning. It asks us, finally, to keep going against odds, against instinct, against opinion, until we become what it is we set out to be, a master.


The Sneaky Hacker

November 17, 2014 12:04 pm Published by Comments Off on The Sneaky Hacker

Hacking. Not through jungles. Or running from hockey masked psychopaths on ill informed group holidays in abandoned warehouses. I’m referring to hacking, “bio-hacking,” terminology applied to “getting the job done” in fast, sneaky, innovative ways.


Riding the Wave

November 10, 2014 3:23 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

This year I did three things that made me reflect deeply on how I do, or do not implicitly trust myself.  The first, I set up a fixed wheel on my bike.  Stop laughing, I haven’t grown a beard…..damn, ok, hipster confirmed.  All I heard was “don’t do it, you can’t control it, it’s a pain if you’re cycling with kids (I have two), you get the idea. 


Be Your Own Movement

October 27, 2014 11:59 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Starting a movement beats crossing things off your to-do list. Having a purpose beats motivation.  Being of service beats doing a job and having a calling is better than having an interest (and especially if you never act on it).  Movement, purpose, service and calling are heart centered and energize us more totally than having to grind through our daily issues with our thoughts as our primary resource.


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MyCloudtag Weekly Challenge: Week 4

October 2, 2014 4:14 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Each week, we will be releasing a video based fitness challenge, for you to try out. This weeks host is Ben Massey who is a CrossFit Level 1 and athlete at Blitz CrossFit, London. Make sure you our FREE app here to try more workout and challenges like this! Click here Twitter: https://twitter.com/MyCloudtag Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloudTagInc Website: http://www.cloudtag.com


Hit the Fan…

September 22, 2014 10:50 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Ok, I hope you haven’t actually been hit, I really do. Also I hope you haven’t had cause to hit anyone else. However, we are here today to discuss what we can do when “it hits the fan”. How do you respond when chaos rules, when the unexpected happens, when life throws a curve ball at you?


You Are An Orchestra

September 14, 2014 12:30 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

You Are An Orchestra. “I can play all the right notes, they’re just in the wrong order…” Morcombe and Wise. “When you are exercising, moving, playing, consider that all of this is also skill development, which means practice and good repetition leads to mastery.  By coordinating your movement rhythm with your breathing and your thinking, you’ll move with efficiency, grace and power; you’ll FLOW.” You’ve probably noticed that people who do things well make whatever they are doing look easy.  Behold the Federer backhand, Messi’s movements on the field,  the way Lindsey Vonn negotiates the mountains she skis. These people are movement symphonies and they’re tuned into the most efficient way of doing what they’re doing. Start by being mindful of your quality of exercise.  It’s easy to start thinking you just need to “get through it”.  Consider how you pick up the weight, how close your knee is to the ground when you lunge.  In short, are you maximizing every exercise? Are you breathing through every repetition?    Extreme flow. Consider the runner, who looks like his shorts are full of ants and he’s being chased by a mountain leopard, running for his life.  See the bench-presser, squirming around like they’re wrestling John Cena?  Now watch a top power lifter, confident set up, positive simple self-talk and breathing timed to perfection with the movement.  That’s what we want to aim for. Feel the rhythm of your running steps.  Allow your in and out breath to synch, repeating a phrase like “smooth, light” as you run… Bench Press this, squirmer.  “Entrainment” means simply “the synchronization of organisms to an external rhythm.”  Drop that one at your next dinner party.  If we consider how music motivates us, it’s because we can find our rhythm in the music’s rhythm and our breathing can find it’s rhythm in those rhythms and then we can find words that describe that experience.  Combine that with a runner’s high and you’re on your way. Your body loves rhythm and it’s designed to find it.  Often, simply relaxing a bit, taking some pressure off, will allow better “entrainment.”  Tai Chi, Yoga, dancing of nearly every kind, martial arts like Capoeira, Aikido, Judo and many more all ask us to loosen up (see second picture) find some rhythm and get into the “flow.”   Here’s your second dinner party winner to drop: “Flow is the mental state of operation... Read more


MyCloudtag Promotional Video!

September 9, 2014 1:42 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

MyCloudtag is a FREE app that will revolutionise how you monitor yourself whilst you workout in all types of setting. The app provides an incredible array of personally constructed workouts to maximise the efficiency of your workout.


Everything Flows

August 31, 2014 1:38 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

“Everything Flows, Nothing Stands Still.” Heraclitus   Recognise you are entering into a powerful cycle of change, literally remodelling yourself and use adaptation, progression and feedback to keep moving forwards. Dave is keen, very keen.  He trains so hard that the following day he’s walking around like Robocop without his joints lubed.  He’s pleased with himself and through his grimace tells everyone about it. They stare blankly at him, particularly his Mum, who worries.  A lot. Each workout is part of a big picture, not the be all and end all in and of itself.   Poor Dave.   Dave’s effort is admirable but he’s got it wrong.  What Dave’s actually doing is overwhelming his capacity to recover and adapt. It’s very difficult to actually change if your body is being pummelled daily like a rugby player or american footballer every time you go to the gym. Find the sweet spot where you are taxing yourself adequately, enough to trigger the responses you want, then recover properly.   Heraclitus, a seriously clever Greek dude philosopher said “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and it’s not the same man.”  Say what?  This is truly a “movement mantra.” As we develop and absorb the stress of each session, we adapt and increase strength, skill, capacity and mental stamina so we tolerate more discomfort.  We literally change and therefore our environment needs to change also. As you track your progress, appreciate that each session you successfully learn from and adapt to demands that each subsequent workout changes slightly also, a rep, a set, a new skill.   Keep your eye on your mood, appetite, sleep and stress levels, for you.  Keep an awareness of how your body feels day to day.  Are you stiff and aching all the time?  Is your energy level tanking in the day?  Are you drooling onto your workstation half asleep by ten in the morning?  Keep a log of feedback that should be showing some steady increases in energy, vibrancy and endurance. No athlete trains maximally every session.  Keep track of your overall wellness level to determine how hard you push and pull from workout to workout, making sure there’s an overall progression.   Poor poor Dave. Heraclitus wasn’t Roman but I bet Greece wasn’t built in a day either.  The small gains are big if they stay.  The... Read more


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Thursday Challenge: Week 2

August 28, 2014 10:46 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Each week, we will be releasing a video based fitness challenge, for you to try out. We are lucky enough to have Emily Schromm back hosting the challenge, the recent winner of "Next Fitness Star" by the renowned Women's Health! Make sure you our FREE app here to try more workout and challenges like this!


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Back to the Future

August 27, 2014 8:23 am Published by Leave your thoughts

If we can foresee even a glimpse of ourselves performing with excellence in an imagined future, then we will try to support that with more positive recollections from our past.  It’s a cool loop.


The Art of Getting it Done

The Art of Getting it Done

August 17, 2014 1:15 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

I am a sucker for the “A-Team”, “McGyver” and in general, tales of people surviving on minuscule islands in the middle of nowhere: “Castaway”, “The Count of Monte Christo”; you get my drift … ahem… Whether or not you could potentially find yourself in the position of needing to build a speedboat out of an ironing board and a blender (I know…quite the visual, isn’t it?), or engineering and building a two story bamboo shelter to keep your family safe until help arrives, there are a couple of skills that are really going to help you in your quest to become someone who can train anywhere with anything.  Really.


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Thursday Challenge: Week 1!

August 14, 2014 9:40 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Each week, we will be releasing a video based fitness challenge, for you to try out. This weeks host is Emily Schromm, the recent winner of “Next Fitness Star” by the renowned Women’s Health! To read more about the competition Emily won, click on the link. (Link via MTV: click here) Make sure you our FREE app here to try more workout and challenges like this! Click here