Christmas means something to everyone – for some it is time to celebrate the birth of Christ;  to others, holiday time at the end of a long year and to a lot of people mixed thoughts and feelings. On one hand it is a time to make merry, drink and eat as much as they [...]

As a health and fitness professional I love nothing better than a good success story but this one really touches my heart. Devlin Palm grew up in a small town in the Kwa-Zulu Natal midlands in South Africa. As a youngster he was a national BMX champion and then as a  big strong healthy lad [...]

This is where I am going… SEVEN PERCENT AT 62 – Let’s ROCK ‘N’ ROLL 17 weeks and some days to my best ever. I’m talking about my best ever as being 7% because that’s what I believe I am capable of and have never been there before; even when I am in recharge mode [...]

“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”. In a surfing accident in 2008 I flirted with death for a while and emerged alive with…let’s call them limitations and I could probably have been forgiven for wallowing in a long pity party, but this story is not [...]

Deep in everybody’s soul is a GIANT screaming to be let out. ALL of us are destined for greatness and we all feel it bubbling around deep inside but we just don’t know what it is. WE HAVE TO SEARCH for it. How do we do that? By Listening. There is so much chatter going [...]

…..but it’s not easy. Set a goal Create a nutrition plan Set out a training program write down your action steps put affirmations everywhere Begin Put one step in front of the other and you will eventually reach your goal. So WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Why is it that soooo many people either do not [...]

I often think about the way I view  my health and fitness in relation to that of my children. My younger kids love sport and both play school A team hockey and club hockey as well. I have sorted gym membership for them given them eating and training plans and check that they are spending [...]

The planet and the people who live on it is in crisis. Anybody who is not aware of that has no access to international media and lives in the middle of no where whether by choice or not so we could exclude them. From what? you ask. From taking responsibility for whats happening. Especially if [...]

Everyday I am thankful for the many wonderful things in my life and I say so unconditionally. Gratitude makes me feel good, it makes me happy, and it uplifts my spirit, why then would I not be filled with gratitude. It also helps me to remember to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens in [...]

Mark Pilgrim, radio DJ | TV presenter | MC | voice artist and cancer survivor, has long been a champion of CANSA’s Shavathon and has actively worked to spread a message of early detection and prevention of cancer to all South Africans in partnership with CANSA. Poster right: Mark in the red T-shirt at the [...]