I’m going to start off by saying I am a big fan of flexible dieting, just not the way it’s often portrayed online, specifically on instagram. Whether you call it flexible dieting, IIFYM or macro counting, the principles are very similar, hit an allotted amount of macronutrients/calories in line with your goals, whilst having control…
What is Pre-Workout? The best pre-workout supplements are formulated to help improve your performance by allowing you to increase training volume and intensity so that you can get more from each workout. When combined with the an efficient training and nutrition programme, taking a pre-workout can provide you with that extra push, which can take…
Did you know that the average person gains nearly 5kg for every diet they attempt, generally when they diet they will lose a combination of both fat and muscle. When the weight is regained after the unsuccessful attempt of turning a short term diet into a lifestyle, when they regain the weight, it’s all fat….
According to the latest studies coming out of The University of Florida, maintaining a healthy weight, whilst living a sedentary lifestyle may put you at the same heart attack and stroke risks as people who are overweight. The research found that people who were of a normal weight and spent the majority of their day…
If you answered ME! ME! ME! I’ve got some bad news for you. Despite what many magazines and fitness professionals might tell you, you can’t turn fat into muscle, you’re not Jesus. The fat burning process is completely separate from the process of building muscle and muscle and fat are both different types of tissue…
When you start setting your goals for the year ahead, keep your specific goals to yourself and keep your goals general to all others around you. Your goal may be to lose 70 lbs of body fat in 2019, but all the masses need to know is that you’re trying to clean up your diet…
If you’re planning to start a diet this January, start by measuring and writing everything down, you don’t need to do this forever, but I would strongly recommend that you do this in the beginning at least. A proper nutrition program is about quality and quantity, you should be aiming to eat the right amount…
Before we delve into this topic, I want to make it clear that I’m talking about fat loss here, not weight loss. With all fat loss diets your goal should be to preserve as much muscle as you can whilst dieting, it’s all well and good losing 10lbs but if 5lbs of that is muscle…
Consume fewer calories than you expend, this is the foundation of any diet, without a calorie deficit you will NOT lose weight. You can use apps such as MyFitnessPal to calculate your calorie/macro needs, but it’s important to remember that these are generic estimates and it is likely that you will need to tweak this…
January is the time when most of us decide to commit to healthier versions of ourselves and for the vast majority goal number one for the year is to ‘lose weight’, but many go about weight loss in the wrong way. What we should really be doing rather than solely aiming to reduce scale weight…