I like to buck trends. Perhaps its my sometimes contrary nature, perhaps its because I sometimes like attention (this last comment won’t shock too many of you who know me!) but I never see the point in following the herd. So its with pleasure that despite these quite terrible economic conditions (especially for higher end […]
My regular readers will hopefully forgive the indulgence of this entry - it has nothing to do with personal training / health & fitness and is instead intended as a warning to anyone who may google a highly dishonest man called Nicholas Pledger. Please also note that I will write the name “Nicholas Pledger […]
I have been marginally aggrieved of late due to the increasing number of thieves (plagiarist lets them hide behind a nice word they don’t deserve) blatantly copying (cutting and pasting) my work and passing it off as there own. I have talked about this on a few occasions with the likes of Charles Poliquin, […]
I have posted a great new article on in-season training on the main Ultimate Performance website - In-Season Training, Facts & Fallacies.
It is the second piece in a series of three (the first can be found by clicking on In-Season Training - The Truth) by top US strength coach and personal trainer Jason Shea. Stand […]
One of my larger and more powerful personal training clients emailed me some questions on fat loss with carbohydrate cycling / the Anabolic Diet last week and I thought it might be interesting to put one or two of the responses up here.
Just to set the scene, my personal training client Mark is living away […]
We have just published a super new article on In-Season Training by Jason Shea, one of the top strength coaches and personal trainers in the United States. For any of you athletes gearing up for the start of the new season this is an absolute must-read. Jason has a vast amount of hands-on experience (as […]
I have written about the importance of organic food on several occasions - not only is it genuinely better for fat loss and muscle building, it is also a hell of a lot healthier for you. And I’d take cancer prevention and a robust immune system over anything else every time.
A recent piece in “Prevention” […]
I don’t agree with so many of the diet and fat loss fads that pray on the public’s gullibility and lack of nutritional know-how, so the Lemon Juice Diet BS is BS that that I don’t agree with at all. However, please don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, as lemon juice can increase […]
I have mentioned Beta Alanine several times both in this blog and in our main London personal training website and continue to get feedback both from personal training clients and our personal trainers as to just how effective a product it can be for enhancing gym performance.
In and of itself it may not help one […]
I am not one to mince my words. Nor am I one to publicly criticise other trainers on an individual / personal level, but sometimes I despair at the quality of many of my so-called peers. In every profession there are good and bad, but it seems that in the personal training industry, especially […]