Category: Fitness

  • InfraRed Saunas – Infographic

    If you listen to Dr Rhonda Patrick, and/or Joe Rogan, you’ll no doubt have heard about the benefits of saunas and heat shock proteins. An arguably, more pleasant alternative/or addition to the Wim Hof cold immersion technique! Here’s an infographic about infrared saunas:   http://uk-saunas.co.uk/wp/index.php/2016/05/03/infrared-saunas/

  • How I lost Half a Stone by Accident

      Ah, I hate before and after pictures, but here you go: Before     After       After speaking to PPC and weightlifting guru, Alex Guest he convinced me that the “eating every 3 hours” protocol was in fact another great example of bodybuilding marketing b@llocks, and that intermittent fasting is great for natural…

  • The Benefits of Exercising Outdoors (Green Exercise)

    The Benefits of Exercising Outdoors (Green Exercise)

    Research suggests that exercising outdoors – in nature, has mental health benefits, above and beyond that normally experienced with exercise indoors. A meta analysis, which examined the results of 10 UK studies concluded that exercising in nature had significant long and short term positive effects on both self esteem and mood. very green environment improved…

  • Home Workouts with the Kids

    Disclaimer – Exercise at your own risk If you love and pretty much live for fitness, Jiu Jitsu and/or MMA, then having kids is often a bit of a bottleneck in your training. Your priorities should change, so that after you have carried out all of your fatherly, and husbandly duties – which nowadays includes,…

  • Healthy Shopping List – UK

    A quick list of what you should look to pick up at the local supermarket. Having crap food in the house is a massive hurdle/barrier to committing to a new healthy-living regime.  Buy healthy foods, throw out or give away the sugary crap. Shopping List Fruit Bananas Blueberries Red grapes Apples Vegetables Cucumber Rocket Broccoli…

  • Strength & Conditioning for Paintball [2023]

    Fitness for Paintball Playing paintball is great for your health. Running, jumping, climbing, crawling and getting your heart rate up and socialising are all solid benefits for you. Once you get serious about playing paintball, you’ll see how fitness plays a key role in how well you can play. If the opposing team turn up…

  • Diet, Fitness & Asthma

    I had ‘bad’ asthma for as long as I can remember. I was using 3 inhalers at one point, 2 steroid inhalers and 1 ventolin inhaler. I can still weeze and have a few issues if I’m around cats, or cut grass. But the last time that I used any inhaler was 7 years ago…

  • Healthy Protein Shake – “The Death Juice”

    ‘Fitness Shake’ – get the micros and the macros Hemp protein, 1 carrot, 1 beetroot, 30g flax seed powder, handful of spinach Blend Neck  

  • What is a Spornosexual?

    To summarise someone who: Takes selfies Gets shit tattoos Shares Lion Memes on FB and Twitter Takes Roids A more grown-up description can be found here   

  • The Health Benefits of Saunas (Joe Rogan Approved)

    Joe Rogan • Saunas Used for thousands of years in European countries such as Finland, saunas have also been a common sight at corporate gyms for decades. However, I didn’t realise that there were any until I listened to Dr Rhonda Patrick on the Joe Rogan podcast talking about ‘heat shock proteins’ and cytokines etc.…