Shift work weight gain is real. Working nights, even if you don't change shifts, is a major challenge to health and fitness. A rotating schedule is the hardest on the body and makes achieving weight loss, fitness, or body composition goals hardest. Here're my tips to try to make shift work healthier.
Read MoreThe most important thing you need to know to make long-term progress on your fitness goals is a concept called 'Training Age.' Your training age isn't your actual age. It's more to do with how developed you are as an athlete, and it affects rate of progress, the kind of program you need, what kind of coaching you'll benefit from, and much, much more.
Read MoreYour fitness plan should make you stronger, improve your endurance, and make your body robust so you'll be more resistant to injury. But is some amount of injury a necessary part of training? I don't think it has to be.
Read MoreWhat is the best program for your goals? If you want to lose fat, or build endurance, or get stronger, what should you do differently to maximise that particular result? This is a question I get a lot, and I thought I'd take a stab at answering by looking at the best and worst ways to achieve the 10 most common fitness goals.
Read MoreHere are the exercises I personally do after training to keep my back feeling great. They help me feel less pain and stiffness, plus keep my posture in fine form - and they'll do the same for you!
Read MoreThis is the story of how I added 60lbs to my hex bar deadlift and did a triple bodyweight lift in 26 weeks.
Read MoreVariation isn't good or bad, it's just a tool. But how often you should change your workout routine does depend on your fitness goals - and how close you are to reaching them.
Read MoreLots of us are plagued by a longing for sweet treats, which can really derail our healthy diet plans. Here are a few techniques that can help make make dealing with sugar cravings easier.
Read MoreFor intermediate and advanced trainees, understanding neuromuscular efficiency (NME) is one way to better individualise your training prescription. Find out whether you're a low, average, or high NME athlete by taking this test.
Read MoreOne of the most questions I'm most often asked is what's the best protein bar? That's because it's hard to find a protein bar with quality ingredients, low carbs and sugar, that tastes great. So I made it my mission to find every healthy protein bar I could and taste test them all to discover once and for all what's the best protein bar!
Read MoreElimination diets are an advanced nutrition strategy for people who suspect they might have a food intolerance and want to feel better. The Whole 30 is a popular elimination diet, and might just be the re-set your body needs.
Read MoreLooking back over the previous year, I was struck by some simple lessons that cropped up again and again in my blog posts, videos, and training sessions with clients. None of these points revolutionary, but I saw so many instances where these principles made all the difference to someone's training that I thought it'd be useful to shine a spotlight on them my compiling this short list.
Read MoreIf improving core strength is among your fitness goals this year, these tips will give your side plank training a huge boost, tripling the effectiveness of this important stabilising exercise.
Read MoreIf you're plagued by back pain, recovery can seem like an impossible goal. But there's a lot of research showing that the best treatment for back pain is actually quite simple. In this video, I show you how to get started.
Read MoreIf your eyelids get heavy most days around 3pm, you're certainly not alone. That's why I've come up with a comprehensive strategy to help you feel more energized throughout the day & beat the mid day slump.
Read MoreWelcome to The Glute Reboot! If anyone's ever told you "your glutes aren't firing", this free video series is for you! Try these glute activation tests, then use the glute muscle exercises to develop better structural balance in your body.
Read MoreTo be healthy is to have tremendous good fortune. And like most things, it's only easy to grasp the incredible value of our physical abilities when they're threatened. Here are my tips for figuring out the things your body does that matter most, and how to safe guard your enjoyment of them.
Read MoreThe best way to figure out your 1 rep max is through your own experience. Each lifter is an individual, so the online calculators lots of people use aren't actually a very useful tool. Let me show you a better way
Read MoreWhen it comes to health, fitness and nutrition, breaking free from unhealthy habits starts with owing the fact that you are responsible for your own health. If your own self sabotage is holding you back from looking and feeling the way you want to in your body, this post will help you see that every challenge has a solution
Read MoreA squat butt wink leads to a decrease in performance, and an increase in pain or risk of injury. No bueno! The most common way to fix a butt wink is to work on improving control and bracing. In this video post, I show you exactly how to get it done.
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