My aim with today’s workout was to increase the weight on my incline dumbbell press. Last week I did one set using the 26kg dumbbells, and that felt pretty heavy, but I did just about manage to squeeze out ten reps, so for this week my aim was to do three sets of ten reps [...]
Pre-workout
A 50 gram serving of whey protein powder, mixed with 90 grams of scottish oats and a banana. A glass of fresh orange with a teaspoon of creatine monohydrate mixed into it. Approx 700 calories and 40 grams of protein.
Post-workout
Another 50 gram serving of whey protein powder, with a 90 gram serving of dextrose powder and a [...]
I recently bought some fine scottish oats from a well known bulk discount supplement store for about £2 a kilo. This is reasonably cheap, but when it came to using them in my pre-workout protein shakes, I found that they didn’t dissolve into the water any better than if I had simply ground them myself [...]
I’ve been using the heavy duty training principles that were pioneered by Mike Mentzer back in the 1970’s for the last six weeks or so, and as such have decided to write up a quick guide to what I’m talking about in my regular training journal posts.
To summarise quickly, heavy duty training principles centre around [...]
Silicon Valley Blogger presents Lose Weight While Spending Less on Food and Exercise posted at The Digerati Life.
Pat Evans presents How Can I Lose Weight Without Dieting? posted at Lifes Instructions.
Jason presents Some differences between weight loss mode and weight maintenance mode. posted at My angle on weight loss.
Alex presents Foods Under 100 Calories [...]
As you may have read from Tristan’s blog we had a workout together on Saturday 28th March. This turned out to be a very effective one for our arms as we’re both still feeling the effects two days later! My arms haven’t felt so worked out in ages actually. I think in part it was [...]
Once you reached adulthood, your skeleton will have stopped growing, and as such it is impossible to widen the various bones that give you that width across your shoulders. However, this does not mean that you cannot widen your shoulders, you can, but it will be through increasing the amount of muscle there is around [...]
I started off my workout with some wide grip cable pulldowns, using my gym’s lat pulldown machine, rather than a cable machine. The lat pulldown machine is quite good in that the handles come down in line with your shoulders, and because it isn’t a bar that hits the back in a much better way than using a [...]
Biceps and Triceps
Went for a workout with Dan today, it’s becoming a bit of a regular thing (happened twice so far!) but will happen more and more often I guess. I quite enjoy my workouts with Dan, we tend to have a laugh but also get the weights done too!
We started off our workout with [...]
I didn’t mean to train today, but as I was staying at my bro’s last night, he invited me down the gym with him this morning. I’d had an average leg workout down my gym yesterday, so I didn’t feel completely ruined (mostly as I’ve finished the stack on their leg press machine) and therefore [...]
