Eat every 2-4 hours- keeping the body fed regularly ensures that it doesn’t go into starvation mode storing what you eat as fat.  Eating regularly will not only give you more energy as the body uses what you eat predominantly as energy but will stop it being stored as fat.
Drink water regularly through out the [...]

1. Stay Hydrated
Stay hydrated before, during and after a work out. Remaining hydrated helps lubricate and protect joints, sustain energy and regulate body temperature. Water is an ideal choice but other drinks, such as coconut water or electrolyte supplements are good as they maintain your sugar, salt and potassium levels – which can help prevent [...]

Most people who perform squats don’t perform them anywhere near correctly, there is an art to performing the squat.  To squat properly first start by standing facing a wall, direct your eyes toward the wall in front, your chin, chest and toes should all touch the wall in front.  Make sure your toes are facing [...]

Bench press grip is crucial to which part of your body you are trying to isolate.  To isolate the chest the best you are best opting for a grip which keeps your forearms at 90 degrees as you come down.  If you place your hands closer together it will take away from working the chest [...]

Drinking lots of water in order to stay hydrated, is a vital part of any healthy lifestyle: helping us to maintain a healthier body weight, improve our mood, sustain our energy levels and keep our skin looking great. There are now many different brands of flavoured water available. The only problem is choosing ones that [...]

I love oatmeal, I look forward to it every morning. I tend to cook it the Scottish way – using about one cup of whole plain (organic) oats with a little bit of salt, water and milk. To serve, I then top the oats with honey and fruit – like a chopped banana and blackberries [...]

Increasing desire to eat bad foods- sleep helps balance the hormone that controls appetite.  With this hormone unbalanced you will often feel hungry and have a craving for high calorie foods.
Increased stress- sleeping for less than 7 hours can cause the body to increase cortisol the stress hormone.
Higher cancer risk- poor sleep can cause metabolic [...]

Simply doing tons of crunches 5 times a week will get your abs in great shape but is very boring and its best to work the abs with a range of different movements to help create a much better shape.  Below are some tips on how to boost your ab workouts.

Super slow movements- performing super [...]

Dead lifts like squats are an exercise that can easily leave you nastily injured if you are not careful.  Below are 5 tips to help you stop getting injured.

Don’t hyperextend the back- at the top of a dead lift don’t lean back at the top this only puts unwanted pressure down the spine.
Don’t roll the [...]

Most people notice that when they start back lifting weights again after a long time off their muscles grow back a lot faster than they took to grow the first time round, this is what is talked about as muscle memory.  There is no scientific evidence to suggest that the muscles have memory and grow [...]