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  • 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,…

  • Turning a Love for Good Food into a Business

    If you love training, then there’s a good chance that you have an interest in nutrition, good food and cooking.  You should have anyway! Don’t be one of those idiots who spends £100 a month on Mega Mass 2000 and eats processed rubbish all of the time. Good businesses start with a great idea, but…

  • 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…

  • Great MMA Podcast – Kinny Vs The Hippy

    Great podcast that I’ve been listening to this week – Kinny Vs The Hippy. This episode – (click here to listen) isabout nutrition and ‘positivity’ and features Pro MMA fighter Aaron Aby, and his dad and co-gym owner Jon Aby. Together they own and run the IPC gym and MMA club in Wrexham. Some good takeaways…

  • 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.…

  • Brazilian UFC Fighters off the Juice

    Nothing to see here Since the TRT ban and the general crack down on doping in the UFC.  Just let them take it I say, makes the fights better anyway – I miss TRT Vitor

  • How to Beat Jon Jones

    I noticed earlier today that a lot of the traffic that comes to my website via Google, does so via the term ‘Jon Jones’ – so I thought I’d better put an article together…   Circle Not only did Gus circle when just out of range, he tended to jab and circle his towards his…

  • MMA Fighter Diet Plan

    I really don’t like doing diet plans, especially on blog posts. Everyone has a different opinion about what a diet should look like: Intermittent fasting (all different protocols) Dairy free Wheat free Ketogenic diet High carb Low carb etc etc Here’s what I typically eat to support training and working in an office: 6am 10g…

  • Beginner Functional Training Programme

    or ‘program’ if you’re American…   Day 1 Tabata Interval – Dumbbell Squats (or bodyweight squats) Try and do jumping squats for the last 5 reps Bench Press / Push Ups – 2 sets of 8-12 reps Bench Press / Push Ups – 2 sets of explosive bench press, but with 40% of the weight…