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Superman Is NOT A Carrot!

27/10/2016

| Categories: Core, Fat Loss, Focus, Mindset, Nutrition, Programme, Technique, Time Management, Training, Weightloss

It seems that wherever you look, whether it's the Internet, your local supermarket or on TV, there's someone raving on about a particular food and how it's essential as it's a 'Super Food'. Whenever this term is banded around, it's usually a long list of benefits are regurgitated, how it's packed with all sorts of special powers to help you get leaner faster, stronger quicker and will bullet-proof your heart! Just by eating this food you'll add weeks, months, even years to your life!! Then, you may be presented with 3 or 4 'recipes' or ideas that allow you to

Confessions Of A Workaholic

26/10/2016

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| Categories: Core, Focus, Mindset, Nutrition, Technique, Time Management, Training

It's amazing how life can take up more than you think it does and the things you've always thought were reality, in actual fact, aren't. Below is a statement about how life is for the daughter of a busy man, one just like you. "Just one of the many adventures we’ve had together was when I was about eight or nine, [when] my daddy took me to a monster truck show. It was awesome! We got lots of cotton candy and toy souvenirs …. It has been about five years and I’ve noticed my dad and I doing less and

Kings of The Compound Pt.1: Squat

20/02/2016

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| Categories: Compound, Core, Functional, Technique, Training

Along with the deadlift, the squat is one of the best compound exercises available to build strength and mass in an athlete. Unfortunately, just like the deadlift, it is an exercise performed incorrectly by so many gym goers. I have seen personal trainers and fitness instructors not only perform the squat incorrectly, but also teach incorrect form to clients and gym members. This is both frustrating and dangerous. The squat engages the core in much the same way as the deadlift does. The biomechanics of the body make the squat a very natural movement to perform. In fact many of

Sand Storm: Beginners Guide To Training With Sandbags

20/02/2016

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| Categories: Core, Functional, Outdoor, Training

Sandbags. Something that most people associate with flooding, particularly here in the UK. However, more and more people are using sandbags as an alternative to traditional dumbbells and barbells for a great full body functional workout. Throwing around a moderately weighted sandbag is about as old school as it gets and is a great way to hit all the muscles you'd typically train with cable stations and the aforementioned free weights, plus others that you wouldn't usually hit. Despite its recent resurgence in popularity, sandbags have been around as a training tool for hundreds of years, especially wrestlers and combat

Hang Tough: Perfect Your Pull Ups

20/02/2016

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Pull ups & chin ups are 2 great bodyweight exercises that can be performed almost anywhere, with minimal equipment. Hitting a variety of muscles including the traps, lats, biceps and delts, pull ups & chin ups should be incorporated in to any strength & muscle building programme. In fact, there is no better exercise for building strength in the upper body. There are significant differences between the two exercises and this guide will illustrate not only the differences between the chin up & pull up, but also how to perform them correctly, even if at the moment you can't even

From Russia With Love: Training With Kettlebells

19/02/2016

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Kettlebells! Cumbersome. Awkward. Brilliant! Getting Familiar With Kettlebells Do you know your pood from your goblet squat? Or your swing from your get ups? If not, this is the article for you! For many, kettlebells are a relatively new piece of gym equipment. You may have even seen a few knocking around the gym floor, wedging doors open! Kettlebells have been around for decades, centuries in fact. And they are one of the ultimate weapons in your battle to get lean, strong and functionally fit. In this article i am going to introduce to the #SacredSix, 6 exercises that when