On the 25th March 2014, I had the privilege of interviewing Laura Thomas, founder of happysugarhabits.com. Laura is an absolute sugar ninja, and has dedicated much of her time to understanding how to help people reduce sugar cravings. Laura has been successful in helping people lose weight, improve health, and regain their energy. I learnt [...]…
Fruit is often considered an important addition to a “balanced diet” and many of us consume fruit frequently throughout the day in various forms. Several years ago, I would consume fruit for breakfast and graze on fruit till lunch. Thank god I stopped doing that….. Enter – Tim Ferriss Tim, author of several NY Times [...]…
The absence of appropriate exercise and hours sitting at desks has resulted in a global back pain epidemic. 99% of the time the solution is not drugs or numerous visits to medical professionals, in fact it’s much simpler than that. ENTER CHRIS ALLEN Up to 80% of people have experienced back pain sometime during their [...]…
Enter Chris Allen…… Our strength increases up to 25-30 years of age. After this, if no preventative action is taken, strength declines in both genders due to muscle atrophy (muscle tissue replaced by fibrous and fatty tissue). Body weight will increase but we have less strength to carry that weight around. “If no preventative action [...]…
Seventy to eighty percent of how your body responds to a training stimulus is determined by your genetics. This means that your muscle fibre predominance can be accentuated and even optimised through a proper training stimulus. In short, this means if your training reflects your muscle fibre genotype you’re more likely to get the maximum [...]…
It probably isn’t news to you that sitting for long periods isn’t healthy. Well, it’s worse than you think. Recently, a couple of studies have shown that pro-longed sitting can increase insulin resistance, thus reducing glucose absorption, and increasing glucose in the blood which leads to an increased risk of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. [...]…
TUL stands for “time under load” or “time under tension” (TUT). TUL is a method used to measure your workout performance similar to counting repetitions. Whilst counting reps is easier to track, it is not necessarily the most accurate way to measure performance. For example, let’s say you achieve 8 reps on a bench press. On [...]…
Do you ever wake up, look at your body in the mirror and feel skinny/fat, discouraged, hopeless, and confused? If you do, you may have body dysmorphia disorder. I’m not a qualified psychiatrist and I don’t have the magic cure, but I think I can use science and a methodology to help you on your [...]…
So you’ve started doing high intensity strength training and cut your training down from 4 times a week to once per week. You’ve started getting better results and realised that exercise much like business is about quality not quantity. It’s about doing the 20% that get 80% of the results (Pareto Law). It’s time for [...]…
When I woke up this morning I had a realization. I have been creating my own positive and negative habits. By positive habits, I mean productive and fulfilling habits like waking early to have a healthy and protein rich breakfast and getting home to spend 2+ hours working on this website most evenings. These activities had [...]…
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