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Do Protein Shakes Work? Or are they just a scam? If you pick up any muscle magazine, go into any gym or go on any website you will undoubtedly see a fitness professional endorsing protein shakes. The supplement trade is a multi billion dollar industry, however is this down to good advertising? Or great results? If you have read some of my earlier posts and my transformation story you will notice I put a lot down to starting to take protein shakes. This also went hand in hand with a radical change in diet and exercise programs. Some surveys show a vast majority of protein shake takers lie in the 12-18 year old demographic, which could be because of the, ‘muscles in a drink promise’. I too fell into this category, I took protein shakes on and off during my teenage years and because of poor diet and exercise they ... Read More »

Squat Technique – Common Problems A common problem people have when it comes to squatting is being able to keep their heels on the floor and remain in balance. It wasn’t until a buddy of mine alerted me to the fact he could not physically squat without falling over. After much deliberation and frustration on my part I decided to look into how to fix the problem. A solution my friend came up with was to just keep the heels raised off the floor, I was skeptical but he said it was advised on a forum. He managed to get good depth and remained in balance but he suffered some intense lower back pain. This is because having your heels raised off the floor increases the pressure on the lower back, hence the back pain. It’s therefore crucial you solve the problem rather than trying to work around it. To ... Read More »

Kim Kardashian Diet Exposed Seeing as I recently covered Chris Evan’s Workout I was advised to do a similar scoop on a female celebrity and I chose the Kim Kardashian diet. Why? Well for starters she often is described as one of the most, ‘curvaceous’ women on around. She works hard in her entrepreneurial ventures and also in the gym and kitchen in order to obtain a very desirable physique. Kim has often been heard and quoted saying, ‘if I want to eat something then I eat it.’ Which I believe is her trying to bring her physique into the real world. You have to take this with a pinch of salt, publicists will tell her to say what the public want her to hear. Saying a remark like this makes her much more down to earth and appealing to the public eye. She may eat that slice of cake once ... Read More »

Following the roots of the website, Strength and Fitness TIPS today I am going to give you some tips for your arsenal to help you with fast weight loss. These tips can really help everyone in any situation, even if your primary goal isn’t to lose weight but just to remain healthy. Losing weight doesn’t mean you need to make massive sacrifices and live in an unhealthy manner, you simply need to be able to use your time and diet effectively. Following these 15 tips will allow you to healthily achieve fast weight loss. Fast Weight Loss Tips Fast Weight Loss Tip 1 – Calorie Count You need to appreciate how many calories each food you consume contains. For instance 1g of fat contains 2.5 times the number of calories as 1g of carbohydrate. I suggest making a list of foods and what calories they contain, this way you can plan ... Read More »

What is Hypertrophy Specific Training and will it work for you? The most common form of training style is the split routine, where you spend around a week working individual parts of the body. The definition of the word hypertrophy is, ‘The enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in size of its cells’. Research in the laboratory has led to scientists discovering how the muscles really grow leading the athletes developing a new training routine called Hypertrophy Specific Training. Hypertrophy specific training looks beyond what is visible to the naked eye and looks at aspects such as myogenic stem cells, growth factors and mechanical loading. All this scientific knowledge allowed people to adapt workouts according to cellular principles. Main Hypertrophy Specific Training Principles Load and Resistance –  For growth to occur a muscle must have a load applied to it. This has not changed from a traditional ... Read More »

Chris Evans Workout routine Exposed With the release of Captain America on the big screens it’s sparked up the question of, how did Chris Evans get so jacked? He was already pretty ripped before he was cast to play the role but he put on some serious muscle mass in quite a short period of time. If you have ever read any of the Captain America comics you will have noticed how muscly Captain America is portrayed and Chris Evans has replicated it very well. Chris Evans’ Workout consisted of a heavy split routine. For those that don’t know what a split routine is, it is when you train one body part each day of the week and then rinse and repeat. It’s what I recommend in most of my posts. I wouldn’t say this workout is limited by any gym experience, it is intensive however and if your just starting ... Read More »

Gym Confidence There is nothing that upsets me more than walking into a gym and seeing someone hunched over an exercise bike barely pedalling, seeming as if they would rather not be there. I know not everyone can have outstanding confidence especially if they have gone to the gym to tackle weight issues but it’s something that is vital to anyone’s success. A big problem with having low confidence while in the gym is that you will never push yourself to your true potential. You may even never get to use some equipment you need to because your afraid of being surrounded by athletic people. I have been there and I know what it’s like asking to use some equipment after someone who looks they eat a whole cow for breakfast, it’s quite daunting. Some of them are condescending and just plain arrogant which doesn’t help matters but you have ... Read More »

How Long can you Last? The numerous innuendoes that can be thought of when talking about this topic is obscene yet I will resist as I am sure you are far more mature than I am. So Stamina and endurance what is it? It’s how long your body can exercise at either an anaerobic or aerobic pace. If you noticed, I mention two categories; aerobic (with) and anaerobic (without) oxygen, each of these have different techniques associated with improving your stamina in each of them. Before you can start to increase your stamina you need to gauge the level at which you are starting from. I recommend for this you use a heart rate monitor if you have access to one, as you need to establish an aerobic fitness zone. It is easy for me to tell you that you need to run for X amount of time at 65% ... Read More »

Many people trying to lose weight must have come across the feeling of making very little progress. Trying really really hard just doesn’t seem to cut it and that weight is just not shifting. Well you are not alone, it’s a huge problem with people trying new diets and workout routines, they just don’t lose weight at the speed they expect. It’s all well and good telling you that it is hard and you just have to keep at it, I’m sure that’s not what you want to hear you know it’s a hard grind, instead lets find a solution. In order for the body to lose weight you need to be in a calorie deficit, in other words you need to be expending more calories respiring than you consume through your diet. The remaining calories needed for the body to function are then taken from your fat reserves. In ... Read More »

Hello it’s Will here, the title says Editor however that’s not true I’m just the guy behind the posts on this blog. I’ve decided to go down a more personal level with this post, I don’t want to talk about the next best weight loss routine or the top abdominal workout. Instead I would like to talk to you about random things on my mind and update you on the latest news. So if you are new to the site and looking for fitness tips then please browse the categories or if you just don’t care then that’s fine and just ignore this post. So what am I doing at the moment? Well at the current moment in time I am sitting on a trampoline writing this post, life of Riley I know. Looking at the wider picture, I have finished the second year of my degree and I am ... Read More »