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Gaining Muscle Mass For ‘Skinny’ Guys

Gaining Muscle Mass For ‘Skinny’ Guys

If I flashback to when I first started training, I followed a guy called Gregg Plitt (RIP) pretty religiously. When I thought about gaining muscle mass in my mind he was the guy I would look like by the end of it. For some context, the guy was absolutely ripped to...

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Your Sources of Information Suck

Your Sources of Information Suck

What a time to be alive.   The internet is a brilliant thing. It has opened up so much information to us and all held at the tips of our fingers, to gorge on whatever and whenever we please. It has also opened up the world to a lot of terrible information and...

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Your First Powerlifting Meet

Your First Powerlifting Meet

It’s nerve wracking, a little intimidating but has the potential to be a really, really exciting day.    Thankfully, I had read a lot of experiences before hand and had a bit of a rundown from my coach on what to expect and what I needed to get ready. However, there...

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Making Nutrition Work For You

Making Nutrition Work For You

"A lot of people know this feeling. The feeling that you are trying really hard, getting results, but you just can’t wait to go back to eating how you were before. Then, when you get there and start eating the same way you used to, your results slowly begin to slip...

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HIIT and Fasted Cardio

HIIT and Fasted Cardio

Picture it…it’s 5am on a cold, crisp, Autumn morning. You wake up to the sound of your alarm and gaze over to the small pile of workout clothes you’d left out the night before, ready for your enthusiasm the next morning to get out on that run you’d said you would do....

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Your First Powerlifting Meet

My First Powerlifting Meet

I remember the exact moment when I decided to take up powerlifting. I was finishing up probably the most silly idea I’ve had to date, which was deciding to push a sled loaded with my bodyweight the length of the great north run (not all at once mind you, I didn’t want...

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Understanding The Effort Needed For Any Goal

Understanding The Effort Needed For Any Goal

You ever make one of those meals where you look at it once you’ve made it and think: I really don’t want to eat this?I remember being deep into losing body fat after about 4 months of consistent effort at it. It was the first time I had made a conscious effort to try...

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Considerations for Plant Based Eating

Considerations for Plant Based Eating

“You can’t make gains on a vegan diet bro, you’ve gotta get your steak and eggs in!” Hold your horses, cowboy.Vegan and Vegetarian diets have become more and more popular in the last few years (maybe even decades, but certainly since the advent of more and more social...

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The Reason Why Fat Loss Gets So Difficult

The Reason Why Fat Loss Gets So Difficult

It’s no secret that at a certain point, trying to lose body fat gets hard. You coast in for the first few weeks and even months, but then things start to slow down, you get hungrier and training and staying active seem to just get more difficult.Don’t panic.This is...

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Are we really looking after our bodies?

Are we really looking after our bodies?

I was watching a cooking show a few weekends ago (for anyone that knows me, you’ll know I spend at least 60% of my spare time doing this haha!) and one of the guests mentioned something that sparked my interest:They were talking about looking after their body, the way...

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Overcomplicating the f**k out of training

Overcomplicating the f**k out of training

People love to over-complicate the f**k out of training.We’ve all seen it.Hell I’m completely guilty of this too, but it’s getting WAY out of hand these days.Thanks to the ever expanding population of fitness ‘influencers’ (when did this even become a thing by the...

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Managing Your Food For Long Term Success

Managing Your Food For Long Term Success

When I first started out as a PT, I thought that you had to be committed to using one method of keeping a track of your food and that was it. You were either tracking or you weren’t. You were either eating paleo or just cramming whatever you wanted into your macros....

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Your Metabolism Isn’t The Problem

Your Metabolism Isn’t The Problem

5 years ago, I was scrolling through internet videos of various body builders I followed, and I came across a LOT of information about ‘stoking the metabolic fire’. Cue, advice to eat 7+ meals per day and the notion that your calories should be higher to lose body...

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