I had a delicious chicken Caesar salad for lunch today, it filled me up, provided a good amount of protein and a small amount of fat, as well as filling me up without being heavy on carbohydrate.
What do you need to make the ultimate Caesar salad?
Lettuce, preferably romaine lettuce, but iceberg will do. Give it [...]
Chest
Started off with bench press today, my aim was to increase the weight up to 70kg after doing two workouts last week at 60kg. I was doing 70kg (just) before the end of my last period so it made sense that after a week to load on creatine I should be able to get back [...]
Having had an absolutely rubbish night’s sleep last night, it was with some trepidation that I went to the gym today, not really feeling like I wanted to punish myself by lifting heavy weights, but I somehow mustered up the energy to do so! I guess this is part and parcel of doing weight training, [...]
There seems to be an awful lot of focus in the diet industry on simply dieting as a way of losing weight. Now, I can agree that a good, healthy, calorie controlled diet will be very effective at helping a person to lose weight, but I would argue that the most effective way to lose [...]
The skinny on meal replacement shakes and why they are a good option for weight loss. Eliza Kelly presents Meal Replacement Shakes posted at Diets That Work.
Sonia Devine presents Ask WHAT Instead of WHY - Love Yourself Slim posted at Love Yourself Slim.
This is a debate that has raged for decades, in fact since the 1970’s when the first isolation machines were developed that used cams to effect the intensity of the workout in different parts of the movement, namely Nautilus machines, which have since been emulated by almost every gym equipment company.
I’ve never used any Nautilus [...]
Shoulders
My first shoulder and leg workout together today, it went well, though I did have a bit of fun trying to workout how much weight I needed to put on the shoulder press machine. In this gym they have these APT machines (advance plate loading technology) which means rather than moving a pin in a [...]
It’s fairly common knowledge that to make either gains in strength or muscle size, you need to consistently overload the muscles. But what is muscle overload and how do you achieve it during a workout?
Muscle overload is when the muscle ceases to work anymore, also known as failure. This will happen toward the end of [...]
Breakfast
A high protein breakfast is a must if you wish to maintain muscle mass during any fat loss diet. As such, it’s a good idea to have 50 grams of whey protein powder and a banana and an apple for breakfast. I would also recommend adding some glutamine to help prevent muscle protein breakdown for energy, and [...]
I went out yesterday evening for a sprint interval training session. Unfortunately I don’t have a running track nearby so I just go down the Somerset levels and run along the farmers roads. Luckily there is a stretch of road that’s almost exactly one mile long, so I use this as a good way of [...]
