The more important something is to us, the more we tend to obsess about it. It’s the human condition. Competitive fighters tend to take their lot very seriously, and as fight night approaches and the weigh-in looms large perspective tends to be lost and panic can set in. This really isn’t necessary, and any good [...]
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Is it true that carbohydrates will make me fat or is it a nutritional myth? Yes and no. Well, you didn’t expect a straight answer did you?! All carbohydrates are not created equal (it is a nutritional myth to think otherwise) and if you overdo the bad ones (the simple sugary carbohydrates found in sweets [...]
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How many times have you heard that stress makes you fat? More than a few I would suspect. Come to think of it I am sure that I have been guilty of saying this to some of our London personal training clients. However like all sweeping statements it’s not quite true. What actually makes you [...]
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5 Bodybuilding Secrets to get you in beach shape in double quick time By Nick Mitchell Bodybuilders often have a hard time of it. Set up as pariahs because of rampant drug usage, and ridiculed for their ridiculous fashion “sense” (genie pants and do rag anyone?!), any man who struts around with the old obligatory [...]
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Should Footballers Strength Train? If we examine the rather unmuscled physiques of many of today’s top football players (I am being kind, scrawny springs to mind when I think of half of the starting line up of any English Premiership team) we would be forgiven for thinking that football is in fact an endurance sport [...]
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