I’ve been using a Rogue Echo airbike as my ‘go to’ for cardio since June 2018. In that time I’ve dropped roughly 45lbs of (mostly) fat through a mixture of increasing my cardio training on my assault bike, and cleaning up my diet a bit (which I can get into in another post!) What people …
Forearms – simply the bit between your wrist and elbow. Not much to it, right? Well for some of us naturally skinny guys growing huge forearms can seem unachievable! Well worry no longer – I’ve got a couple of awesome methods you can follow to grow your forearms at home (even if you’re an ectomorph like me.) …
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A super-common question that I get asked by friends is what weight vest should they buy, how should they use it and is it good or bad to run with one on. Something about a wearable weight seems to be much friendlier to the novice than a barbell or dumbbell so I’ve been asked this a ton of times …
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Introduction Over the past few years airbikes have grown in popularity – thanks in no small part to CrossFit! They are easy to learn, simple to use and massively capable of building a crazy strong cardio engine! Today I’m looking at one the UK manufacturers latest offering – the Bulldog Gear Airbike 3.0. At a glance… An airbike is a simple to use yet versatile cardio …
All the social media outlets are jam packed full of awesome garage gyms and other home set ups – unfortunately (for some of us) there are hardly any decent UK specific resources to help us. This is my attempt to put this right – so welcome to my gym flooring for garage UK project! We …
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So as regular readers will know most of my articles on home gym equipment and strength training have focused on barbells and barbell based exercises (such as the squat, deadlift, bench press and overhead press). Now we will look at another great piece of equipment for free weight training – adjustable dumbbells. These really come …
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So something a lot of people want to talk about is hand protection when weight lifting – weight training gloves. Why would you need to protect your hands while lifting? Well as you know (or will soon know!) Olympic barbells have “knurling” which is essentially roughed up areas that provide grip when lifting. This can …
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So if you’re anything like me then after a while of bulking & adding mass, you will start to feel a little fat and overweight. This is inevitable – any time you add weight you will ALWAYS add lean mass & fat. There is no way around it! One way to fight back is by …
HIIT Turbo Trainer Workouts – Beginners Guide to Everything! Read More »
Your natural body shape plays a huge part in how you look – whether you’re fit, unfit, overweight, underweight or darn near perfect! Why is this? Because your natural shape will always be underneath! Now GENERALLY people will refer to themselves as one of three body types – an ectomorph, mesomorph or endomorph. Lets take …
Let me cast my mind back to when I left University… At that point I was around 125lbs/56kg wet. That’s around 9 stone! How light is that?! Anyway I started work in the “real world” and eventually turned my thoughts to my general health… And how to get big! It didn’t take long to realise …
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