Personal trainers and health professionals advocate working out for at least one hour most days of the week in order to lose weight. This may seem like a huge time commitment, but by incorporating exercise into one’s daily routine it’s easy to burn calories quickly. Integrating a solid exercise plan with a healthy diet for [...]
I went for a “gentle jog” yesterday with the intention of doing a three or four mile run, enjoying the lazy afternoon sun after ushering in the beginning of the football season watching Chelsea narrowly beat Man United in the Community Sheild – a game which is really nothing more than a pre-season friendly, but [...]
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 [...]
There are many myths that are perpetuated in the world of health and fitness, and the biggest myth is that the best way to burn off fat is to jog at a steady pace for at least half an hour. The perceived wisdom is that the body doesn’t get into a fat burning mode until [...]
If you suddenly had to get fit in six weeks then it’s going to be a bit tricky, especially if you’ve not been doing much activity recently. I have in the past trained for a half marathon in three weeks, though I was already going out running a couple of times a week so had [...]
I started this blog with the intention of building up a comprehensive resource for fitness freaks and aspiring bodybuilders alike, though my regular readers will probably have noticed how it’s recently become very much focused on the bodybuilding side of things. For this I won’t apologise, as it interests me more, but in the interests [...]
