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Top 5 food rules
Thursday 19th September 2013
You can't transform your body without good nutrition. Somewhere along the production line, food got complicated. We no longer eat only what we hunt, grow or buy from markets. Countries that eat lots of processed food, meat, added fat, sugar and refined grains also suffer from high rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular illness and cancer. But it doesn't have to be that way. These simple eating rules will help you sift out the nastiness from your dinner plate - here's his top 5. Follow them to get yourself a body that looks as healthy on the inside as it looks on the outside. 1). Don't eat any packaged food your great grandmother wouldn't recognise. Imagine your nan's mum at the supermarket.…
Welcome to the Gun Show
Thursday 19th September 2013
Arm size is often determined by genetics. Some people simply have smaller muscle bellies in their arms, especially slim individuals. This is not to say that you can't and won't build bigger arms but there are some things to bear in mind. You cannot build big arms without putting on a lot of mass all over. Arms grow in proportion to overall mass, so you'll need to look at building a much bigger physique all over to see a major change. Direct arm training does very little for actual arm mass. Mass is generally built by major force production times a certain amount of volume. One of the main facts of physiology is that your triceps are designed to project…
What causes the Common Posture Problems?
Thursday 19th September 2013
Muscle imbalances due to our sedentary lifestyle are a primary cause. The cumulative injury cycle illustrates how muscle imbalances originate: there is a trauma, which can result from repetitive motion with poor dynamic posture, or poor static posture. The trauma causes inflammations, which causes your muscles to spasm and develop knots or adhesions. The adhesions decrease the functionality of your muscles which your brain cannot control properly. The inability of your nervous system to maintain proper postural alignment causes muscle imbalances. If you do not correct your muscular imbalances the cycle will repeat over and over again and get progressively worse. You don't have to be a personal trainer, doctor or specialist who deals with the human body to see that muscle imbalance…
Don't just do cardio training!
Thursday 19th September 2013
Cardio burns fat and weights build muscle. That's the simplistic, misguided premise upon which countless people have built their exercise regimes. In fact, weight training is an important element of any fat-loss fitness plan. Firstly, weight training itself can burn over 400 calories per hour (running burns upwards of 600) and it also increases your resting metabolic rate (RMR). Your RMR is basically the number of calories that your body burns when you're sat on your backside watching Family Fortunes. So, lift weights and you'll burn more calories for longer after you've stopped exercising. On top of that, any weight-loss eating plan means you will lose muscle as well as fat. If you're lifting weights to gain muscle, a greater proportion of…
Dieting properly!
Thursday 19th September 2013
n theory losing weight is simple; we need to create a calorific deficit which means burn off more calories than we take in. However, losing weight and losing fat are two very different things and can easily get mixed up. The majority of people are impatient and want to lose weight fast. Since they have little or no knowledge of diet, nutrition and how metabolism works, they think that by starving themselves, or eating as little as possible will make them lose fat quickly and give them the body they desire. While this attitude will result in a quick weight drop, most of the weight lost will be water, muscle and a very small portion of fat. When we eat food…
Get with the programme
Thursday 19th September 2013
Without a doubt the foundation of many troubles people have in losing weight, getting fit and building muscle is not using a programme designed by a professional and sticking to it. I've seen hundreds of people over the years do the same chest, arm and abdominal exercises and literally get nowhere. Knowing how to exercise safely and effectively is essential to any weight loss program. This is because there are far too many myths surrounding an effective weight loss exercise plan. A healthy exercise program is essential to any weight loss program as the basis for any weight loss is to create a calories deficient state within the body. The calories deficient state can be achieved in three ways: 1).…
Are carbs our friends?
Thursday 19th September 2013
Everyone seems to have a different philosophy when it comes to carbs. One school of thought will tell you to never eat them; another will say to limit them after 3pm, still others might tell you to eat them up until three hours before bedtime. But which theory is the correct one to follow when trying to shed bodyfat? In truth, most of what you hear about carbs has a certain element of fact to it, but with all the recent hype, carbs have seemed to get a bad name, and furthermore are pinpointed as the big culprit for putting on bodyfat. But I'm here to tell you that you can eat carbohydrates in a much greater amount, and more often…
Don't do endless sit-ups
Thursday 19th September 2013
Did you know that for every 100 sit-ups you do, you lose ten pounds of fat? No you didn't, because I've just made that up. It's rubbish. But the way some people insist on crunching up and down for hours on end, you'd think this basic exercise was a miracle fat-loss technique. Nothing makes me angrier than the late night 'celeb' infomercials, where people claim to go from a size 20 to a size 8 in 4 weeks, by doing 5 mins of crunches each day! Don't believe it because it's a total scam. It's not that ab curls are bad for you; they are great at strengthening your abs and giving you a nice six pack, along with planks. But…
30 minute Personal training Sessions
Thursday 19th September 2013
30 minute Personal training is exactly that - 30 minutes of effective, time efficient, engaging and encouraging Personal training sessions designed toward you achieving your specific results. Many people who work out in a gym find that staying motivated, working consistently at the right intensity, and monitoring progress is a time consuming and difficult task. Others find that even entering a gym is too intimidating, not knowing where to start their exercise routine or believing they don't belong there because those places are only for fit people. I've attached some information about some 6 week offers, which will help you to get the results you want in the minimum amount of time. Our 30 minute Personal training options have been created exclusively…
Varying Your Training Routines
Thursday 19th September 2013
When you first start training, if you add proper nutrition and adequate rest to the equation, just about any training routine will give you results. As you continue training, however, that first training routine will become progressively less effective. The reason this happens is because the body adapts to what you are doing. In order to keep getting results, you have to learn to make changes to your training program, to keep the body on edge. Does it make sense to go to the gym with a different weight program every time, or should you work the same program for a month, then change it? That's an important aspect to consider in planning your workouts. The answer is simple: You change your…
6 Reasons to See a Physiotherapist
Thursday 19th September 2013
Physiotherapists are qualified to provide a range of beneficial services for all sorts of people. Contrary to the quite popular and misguided belief that physiotherapists only deal with sports injuries and are very good at strapping sprained ankles, physiotherapy is a crucial part of a holistic and comprehensive approach to health and well-being and certainly, a high standard of sports performance. Essentially, physiotherapy is a physical therapy that is concerned with proper functioning being restored to the body. Physiotherapists also provide professional services to people who have a permanent disease or injury and, in this case, their services help to limit the impacts of physical dysfunction. There are many very good and important reasons to see a physiotherapist and here we look…
The Woodlands Fitness Centre Newsletter September 2013
Sunday 1st September 2013
Well it's September. Already. As at the 1st September, we'll be just 99 days away from a fat bearded man clambering into our houses to empty his sacks. In other words, Christmas. So - what is new? Well I've never planned on using the Woodlands Fitness Centre Newsletter as a medium for broadcasting details of my private life (I've got Lee for that!!!!), but I'm very pleased to announce that Emily and I will be expecting our first child in March 2014. Our first baby scan is on Monday 9th September. Over the last few years of owning the Woodlands Fitness Centre, I've had to deal with a lot of crying, tantrums and bed wetting (mostly from Josh!) - so I…