Bullshit, Brawn and Business

It's January. That means one thing, everywhere you look you'll be seeing articles that tell you that you need to cut this or that out. Most, if not all of the advice is unfounded as generally speaking anything in moderation is sustainable. However, now and again you'll come across a life hack which can't be ignored. In the following post I'm going to share with you a life hack that I discovered around 2 years ago, have implemented ruthlessly and can now see the benefits in every aspect of my life. The life hack is more advice than an actual hack and its as simple as ELIMINATE ALL NEGATIVE PEOPLE FROM YOUR LIFE. We all know someone who's negative or pessimistic about quite literally everything, you may not think they are having any bearing on you, your life, or your decision making but they are! As motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said "we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with" so the chances are if you spend a lot of ...

How To Maximise Your Energy. Lacking motivation to workout or to stay on track with your diet? Don't worry we all do from time to time. Some of us deal with it better than others and battle through it, whilst others completely 'fall off the wagon'.  In this post I'm going to outline the most effective strategies that are most likely to help you get the most out of everyday. These are strategies that I use myself and although have no great amount of science behind them I firmly believe in from personal experience. Attack the day - Make a plan and stick to it! It starts by setting your alarm to the same time each day. I personally get up at 5:30am, drive straight to gym on a week day and get straight out on my roadbike at weekends. Get Shit Done - Instead of a 'To-Do' list have a 'Today' list. That gives you more accountability to actually get shit done rather than put it off and let it mount up. Chances are those tedious tasks won't take...

The 5:2, Keto, Slimming World, Weight Watchers; they all WORK! But why do they work?   The reasoning behind it is simple, it's because they make you subconsciously watch what you are eating. I have tried pretty much every single diet out there and I've lost weight on them all.  A diet that sticks in my mind and is at the forefront of current UK media is Keto. When I went on a Ketogenic I GOT SHREDDED! But the reason behind me getting super shredded on Keto wasn't because it's some kind of superior super diet. It was because I started to check the nutrients of every food I ate before I put it in my mouth. Chocolate; can't have that, it's got carbs in. Pasta; can't have that, carbs. Milk; can't have that, carbs again. You get the gist! Weight Watchers, another diet I got shredded on. Why? Because I was checking how many points a food was before I ate it!  However, as I've become more educated and knowledgeable I've learnt that I ca...

Last July I started a new job... Exciting I know! However, before I started I was aware that the job involved very long hours, 10 hours a day sometimes more. This meant that I had to fit my gym time into one of two slots, either before work or afterwork. After a little bit of thought I decided to go for the before work option as gyms are quieter in the mornings than the evenings, I would miss the morning rush hour if I found a gym by my workplace and I wouldn't be tempted to find an excuse throughout the course of the day not to hit my session afterwork. I managed to find a gym which was literally a two minute walk from work that coincidentally also had 24/7 opening hours! My first week at work came and went in a flash but it was absolutely creasing me. Not because the job was hard but because I was waking up at 4:45am getting my bag and breakfast ready for the day, then I was grabbing lunch on the go, which is never the healthiest, and then I was coming home and watching TV un...

After eating and drinking myself silly over the Christmas period I decided to go on a bit of a cut in the lead up to Easter in order to lose a bit of fat. When I say a 'bit of a cut' I mean I dropped my calories into a deficit of 200 under maintenance. This was the first time that I'd ever purposefully put myself into a calorie deficient for a prolonged period of time and upon reflection it taught me a few things, which I will outline for you below. 1. Meal Timings - Naively when I started out on the cut I thought I'd be able to eat like I had previously when bulking i.e. have a massive breakfast containing around 1200 calories, a decent lunch of around 700 calories, and then a 900 calorie evening meal. However, what I quickly found out when cutting was that eating this way and having the traditional three meals a day caused periods of extreme hunger and massive energy lags. After a number of weeks I realised that instead of having three meals a day at an average of...

So this week is a landmark week, well sort of. This week is the first in my 6 weeks to shredded programme and the first week of incorporating Huel in my diet. For anyone that isn't aware of what Huel is a nutritionally complete powdered food ​that contains all the proteins, carbs, and fats you need plus at least 100% of the European Union's "Daily Recommended Amounts" of all 26 essential vitamins and minerals​. So you know you won’t be deficient in any essential nutrients. Now, I'm already well aware that by this point in the article many of you will be sceptical about powdered food, probably because you're thinking along the army rations line. Huel is not a ration, it is however, a convenience tool. My reason for bringing Huel into my diet is because it is nutritionally perfect, which will aid me on a calorie restricted diet and can be prepared in a matter of seconds, which makes it perfect when I am in a rush or on the go. Huel is also hugely cost effectiv...

I have been training for 3 years now and I have learnt an awful lot in that time and what I'm going to do in this article is outline the things that I've learnt along the way, often things that I wish I'd of learnt sooner and I may outline why I wish I wish I'd of learnt them sooner. 1. There are no shortcuts to results. You're not going to put in a week of training and wake up with your dream body. It takes months, often years of hard work, dedication and consistency in every aspect of your training. 2. Getting your diet right is the key to getting results. I could make a bet that 95% of people who train do not know exactly how many calories they are consuming each day, how to measure many calories they are consuming and what items are calorie rich and calorie efficient. 3. In order to burn fat you need to be in a calorie deficit (you need to burn more calories than you consume). 4. By the same measure in order to consistently increase muscle and body mass ...