Progressive overload
It's something we should all be striving for when we are trying to positively adapt our body composition , but what is it? The principal of progressive overload is to increase the demand on your muscular skeletal system. So how do we do this? In a very simple way, do one thing enough and your body will adapt and get good at it. You now need to increase the difficulty. Once you've done this for a short while your body will adapt again and this will become easy. There are many
Logging your progress
If you're not assessing you're guessing Today I wanted to talk about progress and logging In everyday life we all strive for progress. Especially with our fat loss and performance goals. The problem is when we don't see any, many of us are looking around wandering what the hell has happened and why it's stopped all of a sudden. This is why logging workouts and keeping food logs are vitally important. When we are failing in our endeavours the only way we can truly find out whe
Weights vs cardio
Weights vs cardio As some of you embark on your fitness journey you will inevitably take up some form of exercise. Yet what type are you going to undertake? Here I'm going to weigh up the positives in doing resistance training (weights) as apposed to traditional cardio (typical run,cycle) Before going any further. I want to point out that if you enjoy doing cardio over weights then by all means do it as taking enjoyment out of anything usually results in not doing it at all
The don't eat after 6pm myth
Myth busting- you can't eat after 6pm so scrolling through my Facebook feed the other night and I came across a friends post..."back to not eating after 6pm" I asked why she was doing this and she told me it worked for her last time. This is a common thing with people many and is something that has been touted across the media as something you need to do to lose weight. Well today I'm here to tell you, you don't have to follow this rule Unless you have some serious hormone pr
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