Yearly Archives: 2012

Positive Changes

Healthy living shouldn’t be about what your giving up or abstaining from but rather about all the good stuff your going to be doing or consuming. With this in mind we have decided to challenge everyone to make 12 positive

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Carb BackLoading – The Journey Begins

As people who know me will know I try to follow a Primal style of eating and have in recent months adopted Intermittent Fasting (IF) with some decent results. After hearing about carb backloading (CBL) my natural curiosity and inner

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52 Flavours

For 2013 we have decided to set a special year long nutrition challenge. The title of the post may give some clues. It’s all about diversifying your taste buds and expanding your horizons. It’s all too easy to get set

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January Squat Challenge

We aim to put up a new challenge every month, the aim of these challenges is to help people form healthy training habits and also to build on some traditionally weak areas for people, or just for a bit of

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New Year, New Focus

Firstly as a bit of an update from my previous post, I’m afraid things did not go as I’d hoped with regards to my planned exercise programming. Life managed to get in the way as it so often does. It’s

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New Years Resolutions – Setting SMART goals

It coming to that time of year where everyone is thinking about the holiday season and having big blow-outs, maybe not exercising so much and generally ‘letting their hair down.’ This inevitably leads to the setting of New Years Resolutions

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Setting Goals – Not just for the New Year

As one door closes another door opens As I come to the end of my current Tapout XT journey I find myself a bit lost in the wilderness in terms of where to turn next. I have 3 weeks left to

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Hitting the Pause Button

‘Listen to your body’ I tell people to do this all the time, but as ever it’s hard to listen to your own advice. during last weeks Obstacle race I took a pretty hard blow to my ribs, I didnt

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Obstacle Racing – Equipment/Prep

I have completed a lot of obstacle races most recently the Super Spartan race. During these races I see a lot of folk wearing a lot of different kit so I thought I’d share my opinion on what is best

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Cooking in Batches – Ready Meals Busy Bee Style

So I talk about planning your diet, but what does that look like for me? Well generally on a Sunday we sit down and decide what we will be eating for dinner ever night the following week, that way we

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