April 2012

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Introduction I've been getting a lot of questions about my diet and training. I've been dieting for 7 weeks, trying to lose fat and preserve as much muscle as possible. This is an explanation of what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. You can follow my continued progress on my log on the forums here (and ...

Most people want to partake in sport whilst at uni, for many it will be their last opportunity to compete at a serious level in sports they love. Generally, it's a simple question of transferring sport at school into a university context but some seek change or even a new start. It's easy to fall into ...

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I’d always resisted yoga. I didn’t like the idea of pretentious mid-life-crisis new-agey types doing a bit of stretching, thinking they were so special because of it. But yoga is pretty old, and you can’t knock it until you’ve tried it - so I recently booked a 1-month pass. Turns out I was wrong. I went ...

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Hi, Adelfo, could you briefly introduce yourself? Well, I’m a competitive wheelchair bodybuilder that has a passion for the physical culture lifestyle. When did you start training for bodybuilding? I started bodybuilding in 2008. I read that you suffered a car accident, which left you paralyzed. That must've been an incredible challenge, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Did that experience ...

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Renata has been my client for a while now. She came to us with a good understanding of nutrition and an already very solid diet - the problem? She was eating very health promoting foods but experiencing no real change in body composition.  I decided to introduce her to John Kiefer's carb backloading protocol (with some ...

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