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How To Crowd Worry Out Of Your Mind: I’ve spoken above about how I’ve dealt with bouts of anxiety and how eliminating certain foods and understanding the difference between amygdala and neo cortex based anxiety has supported me over the years. However, I think worry and anxiety are two sides of the same coin –…

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had the most amazing Xmas period 😀 I know this week is probably going to be the busiest period for gyms, shops that sell gym equipment and supplement stores in general so today’s post is going to give some quick and easy ways to get back in shape in…

It’s that time of year again when we start to think about and plan our new years resolutions and reflect on the year past, pondering how we can make the next one even better. Personally, 2016 been one of my best years to date – I’ve learnt more about myself than in any year previous.

What if there was a way you could look significantly leaner in only a few days and really ‘peak’ for your Xmas party, St Stephens Night or New Years Eve? You wouldn’t have to crash diet or restrict calories to an unhealthily low level but you would have to manipulate carbohydrates, water and supplements for…

Sometimes life is as simple as finding the things that make you happy, do more of it – find the things that make you unhappy and do less of it. However, this isn’t always as easy as it sounds- the sources of what is making you unhappy can be ‘hidden’ or hard to find. When…

Anxiety is a complex emotional response that’s similar to fear. Both arise from similar brain processes and cause similar physiological (rapid heart rate, breathing disturbances or ‘heart in mouth’ feeling) and behaviour reactions (fight, fight or flee). The thing that’s always made me curious about anxiety and fear (I regularly got them mixed up) is…

After the great feedback on yesterday’s podcast episode, Episode 16: How To Get Six Pack Abs Or A Flat Stomach– today’s blog is going to be an expansion on that. There are lots of different factors that come into play and everything from the foods you eat to the supplements you use will play a role…

For anyone following me a while you know that I completely ruined my body doing a bodybuilding program in the height of football career- granted, I looked good but my performance was the worst its ever been and I felt like I was getting injured every time I played a game. I actually designed my…

The clocks officially went back at the weekend, so that means one thing; we’re coming into that limbo period between Halloween and Christmas where nothing much seems to happen, or so we think. When I worked as a teacher in West London, November was our ‘real teaching month’; that’s not to say that we didn’t…

It’s coming into that time of year again, the evenings are getting shorter, mornings increasingly darker and its hard to focus on your training and nutrition when all you want to do is come home from work, curl up in front of the fire with chocolate, tea or biscuit and chill out for the night.