2019 Lululemon Sweatlife Festival
After speaking at the 2018 Lululemon Sweatlife Festival on the Science of Strength Training and loving the experience I’ll be back again for 2019. This year I will be running a regeneration and prehab
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4 tips to to guarantee success on marathon day
1.Free your feet Your big toe (1st ray) has a windlass mechanism due to the muscles that attach crossing two joints, 1st MTPJ and the calcaneus. Therefore, dividing load and allowing more force to be produced. A lack of, or excessive range of motion at the big toe alters the entire kinetic chain upwards. 60° …
How much variation do you really need in your training routine?
I’ve found myself talking about this quite a bit recently. Should your workouts have lots of different moves each session / week or do you focus on skill and technique acquisition. There is certainly a difference between what is best for the human body and what our brains like. We are in a period within …
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Don’t go to extremes with fats in your diet
No one macro-nutrient (carbs, protein or fat) is the villain when it come to body composition. Ultimately energy balance (energy in vs energy out) is still key. We’ve seen a switch away from fats being bad to fats being good, which is great as having fats in the diet is important. It is also valuable …
Why you really shouldn’t cut out carbs
Why you really shouldn’t cut out carbs What’s always interesting is that if are to ask almost anyone on the street “how do you lose weight” a very large percentage will say “cut out carbs”, and as a trainer, we hear it all the time. Since the Atkins era of the late 90s, the low …
Focus eating for performance, not eating for fat loss
I generally find when someone focuses too hard on the result of fat loss they naturally tend to undernourish on the days that they exercise by eating too “clean”. I understand the logic behind it, you’ve trained hard so you want to eat well and have the salad without the dressing and snack on a …
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Gut Health
Most of you will have heard the expression “you are what you eat” but just as you’ve got used to saying it, the experts have gone and changed it. So you are now “what you eat, breakdown, digest and absorb”. Mainstream media is really starting to pick up on the benefits of good gut health and …
Do proper HIIT training, not kinda hard interval training
Everyone loves HIIT, and the science behind the training method is great. Benefits include improved insulin sensitivity, blood glucose regulation and fat burning. However I’m seeing more and more women add HIIT into there training plans and not seeing the results they are aiming for. This is because the High Intensity part of HIIT often gets …
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Stop eating fake food
Stop eating fake foods When health conscious people hear that they need to add more protein or fibre to their diets, many will go to the supermarket and load up on pre made packaged foods. More often than not, these fake health foods are loaded with sugar, e-numbers and chemical stabilising agents. What many people don’t …
What you can learn from Intermittent Fasting
What you can learn from Intermittent Fasting Firstly I have to hold my hands up and admit that it took me a long time to come round to trying intermittent fasting. Like most personal trainers i’ve been raised on the understanding that we should eat 3-6 equal sized meals evenly spread out throughout the day. …
