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If you are new to weight training, it can be difficult to know where to start. Here are our top 5 tips to get you going! Start slowly - if you try to lift too heavy, or do too much, in your first few sessions, not only can you risk injury, but you will be very sore in the following few days!  You don’t want to be put off before you really get into it. Get Your Form Right - get perfect form with light weights before trying to increase the weight.  Great form is essential to prevent injury and...

Can you lose fat and build muscle at the same time? Many of us want to change our bodies - become leaner, more toned, stronger and lose some fat.  (I don’t say lose weight as the scale is not your friend, it’s better to go by inches lost than weight). We hear people talking about recomposition (building muscles and losing fat), bulking (gaining muscle, and usually some fat too) and cutting (shedding the fat).  But what is best…..and why can it be so confusing?! To become more toned and stronger, we need to build muscles, to be leaner we need...

Wouldn’t it be great if we all had a spare room which could be made into a home gym.  Realistically for most of us, that isn’t possible but it doesn’t mean that we can’t do a great workout, in a small space, with little equipment.  And on a small budget!!  The first thing everyone should have is resistance bands - they are cheap, versatile, tiny to store and can be used for a multitude of exercises.  Work your whole body for less than £20 and less room than a bag of protein powder!! Next we would recommend a kettlebell or...

Let’s be honest, some days we just can’t be bothered!  Maybe we are really genuinely tired, maybe it's dark and cold and we want to lie on the sofa or stay in bed, maybe life just got more hectic and training went way down the priority list.   Here are 8 top tips to get you going! Move.  Not necessarily to workout, but just get off the sofa or out of bed, and stretch.  Roll your neck around, lift your knees to your chest, swing your arms.  Just getting your body moving even a tiny bit is enough to make us...

The history of whey protein Before the boom in bodybuilding and the creation of mainstream gymnasiums, whey protein was a ‘throw away’ by product of cheese making. It was most commonly sold as a product to feed pigs, dumped into drains or spread onto crop fields. Whey protein is no more than a glorified animal feed that has become a billion pound commodity.  Outside of being a source of protein, it has very little nutritional value for human consumption and can have detrimental effects on long-term health. In 2010 a panel of the European food safety authority concluded that proposed...