Archive for June, 2008

Eat More, Lose Weight?

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

This sounds like nonsense but as far as your breakfast is concerned it’s absolutely true if you believe this report.
When I was younger I was always told that breakfast was the most important meal of the day, in fact you have a big breakfast, a good lunch and then a smaller meal in the evening, [...]

Pressing 125% Of Your Body Weight

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

I initially set myself 2 goals to achieve, one was cross-trainer based, the other a rowing challenge.  When it became clear quite early on that I was going to do both of those I decided to set myself another challenge of lifting 125% of my bodyweight.  At that time I was looking at having to [...]

Why Personal Trainers Don’t Like Cross-Trainers

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I’ve now changed my body shape enough for people to start noticing. I don’t mind, other than the word skinny, I don’t think you could ever use the word skinny with me but each to their own. Of course as well as friends and family noticing people in the gym are going to [...]

Why 1200 Calories A Day Isn’t Sustainable

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

I’ve written before about how my wife joined a weight loss study that means she’s only allowed 1200 calories a day. I’ve never thought this was a good idea, I don’t think it’s going to give her a life changing plan that will last the next 40 or years or until she pops her [...]