It’s holiday season. The time where we all frantically diet and exercise like our lives depend on it. But is all that panic really necessary? After almost 10 years working with clients, I see the same patterns year after year.
It’s holiday season. The time where we all frantically diet and exercise like our lives depend on it. But is all that panic really necessary? After almost 10 years working with clients, I see the same patterns year after year.
Fat loss is a funny thing. If you asked most people if they’d like to lose a little fat, they’d probably tell you they would. Some of us feel so strongly about this it influences our behaviour on a daily basis.
As a personal trainer and physique coach of 5 years, better yet – as a gym goer of 10 years, I find it no exaggeration whatsoever to say with confidence that weight training has changed my life. I might even go so far as to say that weight training saved my life.
In western culture, we’re very good at splitting the body up into ‘sections’. This is how hospitals are divided up, and how we think about our bodies in general. You have the head, the lungs, the heart, the arms, legs, torso, individual muscles within each area of the body. […]
Ever get to the gym and just don’t feel ready to train? Maybe you’ve come straight from a long day at work and your head’s mashed, maybe you’ve got a lot on in your personal life or maybe you just haven’t got a clue what you’re going to do […]
Social media is fantastic for some things. Keeping us in contact with each other, allowing us to be inspired by each other’s achievements, and it provides some absolutely cracking cat memes. But for all the benefits, the drawbacks are huge. In this article I want to focus on one […]
“How much does a personal trainer cost at the gym?” That’s the question on everyone’s mind when they’ve finally made the conscious decision that they want to improve their health, fitness, body image or strength and they want some help to get there. The gym can be a […]
When you’re just starting out trying to add muscle to your frame, it can be tempting to look up to the biggest guys in the industry. The bodybuilders, physique athletes and fitness models. And for good reason. These are the top guys in the business and it makes total […]
Before you get to the programming, the methodologies or the rep ranges involved in training for a better physique, we need to take a closer look at the way we actually perform exercises. Even closer than this, we need to pay close attention to the hardest parts of the […]
Training to build muscle can be a confusing thing to try and approach – and with so many conflicting pieces of information and opinions floating around in gyms and on social media it’s no wonder. There are tons of areas that you could dive into and debate for hours […]
Pullups are a massively popular exercise and I’ve lost count of the amount of clients that have a ‘sub goal’ of being able to do bodyweight pullups on their own. If you can master pullups, you will undoubtedly fast track the growth of your lats and rear delts, as […]
The amount of thought most people put into their training programme usually consists of walking in the gym and seeing what they feel like training. This is the most backward and limiting philosophy towards training and in this article I’m going to spell out why – and what you should […]
Today we’re talking about the good stuff. Back to basics with this article and I’m going through my top 3 tips for muscle building in beginners. Basically, this is all the stuff I wish I’d gotten right from day 1 (if I did, I’d be a lot bigger than I […]
In today’s article I want to go through autoregulation – or in simpler terms, how to adjust your training plan as you go. A Training plan can be very rigid, set in stone and black and white. The trouble is, human beings are far from rigid creatures. We’re constantly […]
When it comes to trying to get in better shape, whether you’re trying to lose weight or stack it on, the ‘default setting’ most people revert back to when they start the process is the ‘all or nothing’ approach. This works – if you actually stick to the ‘all’ part […]
Welcome back to my blog series on the 3 phases to a better physique, all about bringing the package together and getting lean. This article is going to cover phase 3 – the phase I go through myself periodically to get in great shape. Now it’s important to note […]
Welcome back to my second piece on how to set yourself up for a better physique. If you missed my first article go back to the blog section of my website and have a read through it on there. Today I’m going to be talking about the next phase […]
If you’re new to weight training, it can be hard to visualise just how you’re supposed to go from where you are right now to where you want to be in terms of your physique. With that in mind, this 3-part article is going to take you through the […]
For all the reading, watching, studying and practicing I’ve ever done on muscle growth – the times where I’ve learned the most have been when I’ve made mistakes. Nothing teaches you the right way of doing things like experiencing the wrong way of doing them. Running head first into brick […]
If you’re natural, or ‘drug free’, you’ve likely contemplated whether you need to train differently to the guys out there using assistance. It’s a perfectly reasonable question – after all, a lot of the bodybuilders, fitness models and people in the spotlight we see on social media are using drugs. […]
Strength, heavy lifting, power building, whatever you want to call it – everyone’s got an opinion on it when it comes to utilising it for muscular growth and no one seems to agree. The information out there is all very conflicting in what kind of training you should be […]
Getting in better shape, improving your body composition and stacking on muscle is something that requires effort. We know this, it’s not new information. The issue most people have isn’t that they don’t put effort into the process. It’s more that they direct their efforts into the wrong places. […]
Weight training can be one of the most daunting and confusing things to try and learn on your own. Over the last 9 years or so I’ve made more mistakes in the weights room than I care to admit. From starting at 16 years old and doing nothing but chest […]
When you’re first starting out in the gym and want to build some muscle, everything seems mega confusing. The issue of what training programme to follow or how to structure you’re training is one of the most baffling for most people – and something most people get completely wrong in […]
Lagging body parts suck.
They’re the parts of your body you seem to target every time you go in to the gym but never seem to respond no matter what you try.
Contrary to popular belief, the process of building muscle mass and training for a better physique stretches way beyond the stereotypical ‘meathead’ lifting heavy things up and putting them back down again in a dungeon like basement gym.
Having worked in gyms and been around guys that are trying to build muscle for a number of years now, I’ve started to notice some trends that crop up week after week when I speak to people about their struggles with training.
I’m going to start this article by saying that powerlifting as a sport, is awesome. I have a massive amount of respect for those that compete or train as a powerlifter – the amount of weight some of these guys can lift is insane.
No matter who you are, we’ve all got areas of our body that we’re not as happy with as others.
Areas that are maybe slightly under developed, not as aesthetically pleasing as others or whatever it might be that’s bothering us.
