Eating right can seem a struggle when you’re busy majority of the day, cooking is the last thing you want to do when you get home. Here are some quick, easy and healthy meals to put into your daily diet: Omelette: 2 large free-range eggs Sea salt & Freshly ground black pepper 1 small knob…
When time is short it can be hard to keep energy output high, here are 3 quick 10 Minute Interval workouts that will raise your energy consumption and reinforce your weight loss goals. Interval Workout at Home: 30 Seconds per exercise, 2 exercises back to back, 20 Seconds Rest after each Set Wall Sit –…
Traditionally, girls are instructed to weight train the same way as guys, whilst for general health and fitness this may not seem a bad thing as surely any exercise is good but for women who are looking to get a little more out of their weight training they are some principles you should adopt to…
Earlier this month I was approached by the editor of WatchFit (a popular online fitness website) to be a contributing author to their blog. This would mean I could share my knowledge with a wider audience which of course I gladly accepted. I was tasked to write an article on female specific training and to…
Saturday just gone saw me heading over to Birmingham for Strength and Conditioning coach Phil Learney’s seminar on Hypertrophy. Phil has established himself as a very reputable coach through training some elite athletes including worlds strongest man competitors, fitness models, pro rugby players, NFL players and many more. After following Phil’s writing on Facebook for…
MYTH 1: “LOSING WEIGHT IS ALL ABOUT CALORIES” Calories is definitely a big factor in weight loss but not the be all and end all, as long as you’re in a deficit (energy expenditure exceeds energy intake) you will lose weight (key word being weight, not fat) taking care of your hormones is the trick…
stay away from fat, because it will make me fat, clog up my arteries, raise my blood pressure, and pretty much every other health problem there is. Even when training to be a PT the nutrition advice what we are taught to promote is low-fat. As most people are starting to now realise, fat doesn’t…
For most people, Christmas time is a time to eat, drink, and be merry put on a few lbs. For those of you that want to prevent this, here are a few tips… FOOD when eating big dinners with family, friends whoever, eat your meat and vegetables first before your carbohydrates (potato, chips, bread etc).…
After all the media hype recently regarding red meat causing cancer I decided to write this short blog to settle the score, and help clear up some of the confusion around this topic! RED MEAT DOES NOT CAUSE CANCER. Its like saying smoking causes cancer – if that was true everybody who smoked would get…
