Do you enjoy cycling? Have you a mountain bike or a road bike sat collecting dust in the garage or shed? Cycling provides many benefits, whether you’re looking to simply enhance your health and fitness or improve your performance, cycling is a fantastic cardio...
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Looking for a lunch that’s suitable for healthy eating ? There are lots of ways to keep food tasty and interesting but still be healthy! Put down the bags of crisps and pick up the chicken breast, here is an easy option to include...
Understanding Stressors & Rest In Relation To Personal Training Goals & General Health It is in the hours that you rest that anabolism (tissue regeneration and reinforcement) occurs. So in relation to training towards fat loss and muscle enhancement, your goals are dependent upon...
This is probably the most hotly debated health and fitness topic out there. You will likely have heard all kinds of approaches and supposed secrets to achieving weight and fat loss. If you wish to get to my advice and skip the rationale behind...
How many reps per exercise do I need to perform to develop muscle or muscle ‘tone’In the title of this post I decided to put develop muscle or muscle tone. Sometimes people seem to think that these are two different things, however in application...
Nutrition Advice – 6Simple rules to maintaining a healthy diet In the complex world of nutrition, it is easy to feel frustrated with the conflicting nutritional advice out there and it seems like there will soon be nothing left to eat as everything will...
Body transformation: training methodsWhat is Metabolic Resistance Training and why should I do it? (Part 1) What is it and why should I do it? Metabolic Resistance Training (MRT) is becoming an increasingly popular training method for promoting fat loss, maintaining muscle and general...
Body Transformation How to do Metabolic resistance training and 50 effective exercises and pieces of equipment for it – Part 2 Having briefly covered what MRT was in Part 1 – What is MRT and why should I do it?, it’s time to discuss...
Diet Planning – Do I need Supplements? Part 1 Supplements can be in the form of; Whey protein powders, Casein protein powders, BCAA’s (branched chain amino acids), creatine, Pre-workouts, intra-workouts, mineral supplements, vitamin supplements, raspberry ketones, ‘slimming teas and shakes’, Herbalife…. (makes me shudder...
If like me, you have already attended a Christmas party or two and have yet more to come before the year is out, you may be allowing yourself to feel a little anxious about what the scales might say after it’s all said and...
Diet Planning & Supplements – Reasons to take (or not take) supplements As promised in Part 1 of Do I need Supplements? Here are few reasons for and against the use of Supplements in your diet planning. Reasons for: If you are an individual...
Fitness Training: Should I be doing Weights or Cardio to get in shape? I’m sure I have written posts on this topic before and so have many others. Yet there are still people out there with beliefs that one or the other is the...
6 Steps to getting leaner, more toned and more muscular 1. Make it your primary focus to actually achieve it for around 3-12 months of disciplined effort (or more if you really like). In the grand scheme of things, this will be a short...
Nutritional Advice – What Should You Eat For Fat Loss? First of all, one day of eating well for your goal will be good, but far from sufficient to attain it (in case you needed that clearing up!). You will need to face up...
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for fat loss! So here it is! An example of breakfast, lunch and dinner. Remember, just an example! Bear in mind that eating for health can often be different than eating for body composition goals. It may be worth adjusting...
Personal Training – Recovery and rest’s role for getting in shape War time British prime minister Winston Churchill was once asked; “Sir, to what do you attribute your success in life?”. His reply was; “Economy of effort. Never stand up when you can sit...
Fitness Advice – 6 Reasons why you have hit a plateau or think you have 1. You are not being honest with your food intake, not accurately tracking it or even eating correctly for you.It is easy to kid yourself into thinking you are...
How hard should a workout be? Pretty damn hard!But you probably don’t need to be spewing your guts up each time or aim to be sore for days on end after it every time.Of course it depends on who you are and what your...