Being a rookie is the gym is exciting, but tough. You have so much potential to fulfil but the pitfalls are all to easy to fall down on. Here's three of the biggest mistakes I see beginners making (not to mention three I made for years too!).
Read MoreTracking your progress is crucial to you being successful in your health and fitness journey. This also means understanding what methods and metrics of measurement apply best to you and your goals.
Read MoreResisting the seduction of what you want now for what you want ultimately further down the line is a massive part of achieving great success in anything you do.
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Achieving anything of meaning to you is going to take a big chunk of motivation and there will be times where you're hanging on by a thread. Here's five ways you can can start gain and retain your motivation to ensure you do all you can to win.
Read MoreKnowing where to start can be a real issue for anyone looking to get their head around beginning their own health and fitness journey. So much so that it often paralyses people into not bothering at all! Too complicated. Too hard. Too much conflicting information.
Read MoreThere's two things I find that are the most common reasons for people failing to find their results.
Read MoreIf you're reading this as someone who is based in London, but also as someone who wants to get fitter, healthier and look/feel better, I want you to realise what an awesome place you're in to make this happen.
Read MoreEvery guy wants to get ‘lean’. But to what degree? How easy will it be? Is it maintainable? And what’s the cost of getting there?
Read MoreIt's taken me years of trial, error, research and at times, head to brick wall moments to get to where I am today. That said if I knew back when I started what i know now? WOW. Different story
Read MoreThe reality is that if you train for 3 hours p/w that works out to be just over 2% of your week in total.
Let that sink in for a moment...
Read MoreI'm a big believer in working on yourself as a person, not just in a way that gets you abs and pecs but a way that brings you success in all areas. I'm far from being there yet, but being a work in progress is a good place to be! Here's a couple of things I work on daily that might help you too.
Read MoreWhat is carb backloading?
This approach requires you to eat a low carbohydrate diet up until your evening meal/post workout.
Read MoreLosing fat requires your calories to be lower than you'd like at certain times, that's pretty much a given. There's loads of ways to try and soften this blow; cardio, use of sweeteners/zero calorie alternatives, increasing total daily steps per day etc etc.
Read MoreSo you have a desk bound job but you want to lose fat? Here's some ideas:
Read MoreTime is precious and it's constantly running out, so i'm sure you'll agree we need to do all we can to maximise our time and not waste any.
Read MoreOne of the simplest things most of us guys can do to improve our physiques? Learn how to train back properly, then double up on training it.
Read More1/ IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT WEIGHT - Lifting progressively heavier will contribute to massive success in the gym BUT it means naff all if regard for your technique goes out the window. Perfect your form first, then start working your way up the dumbbell rack.
Read MoreProbably one of the most common meals of the day you could be improving to push you closer to your physique goals. Drop the toast and cereal and try out these:
Read More1/ YOUR COMMUTE - Your choice of travel to and from work every day could be a great chance for you to get some calories burnt. Do you get the tube to work in London? Get off a stop early and get those steps in. Maybe you work only a couple of miles from where you live? In this case maybe cycling to and from work would be a cool way to get your daily activity up (and save some petrol money!). The other thing to consider is how stressful is your commute? If every day it's an unbearable grief then it's time to try and think around it. Being stressed for extended periods of time isn't great for you for all kinds of reasons and will make it physiologically tougher for you to lose fat.
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