Reasons Your Weight Hasn’t Changed (or has gone up) First point, most of us are trying to reduce fat not weight. The number on your weighing scales is just a proxy for this. And, it’s not a very good one. Because your body is a complex machine so the relationship between fat and weight is not simple. So here are some reasons you might not be losing weight, even though you are doing everything right.
Baby it’s cold outside…
Oh yeah, –2 degrees as I write this on a Thursday morning.
Now of course, you know that this not a reason to skip training. But there are ways to make yourself more comfortable. As my ex-USSR coach used to say (cue bad Russian accent) “Der is no ting as bad weder. Der is only bad cloving…”
So here are my top tips.
5 Reasons you should take your workout outdoors
Yes, we might still have a few chilly weeks ahead of us, but the benefit of working out outdoors are considerable! So as tempting as it is to snuggle up and hibernate, here are 5 reasons you should head outside.
Why You Should Break Up with your Gym this January
Here we go again. It’s the New Year and love it or hate it, everyone will be looking for ways to improve their health, lose additional weight gained over the holidays, get fit. Often the starting point for many of us is to join a gym and resolve to go there 2,3,4 times a week.
But why we do it every year? Year after year? Because inevitably, we are failing. We are not getting fitter, or losing the weight, and yet come January 1, we will make the same resolution and expect a different result.
CARAMEL MUFFINS
Makes: 12
Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 25 mins
Nutrition per serving:
146 kcals 6g Fats
21g Carbs 5g Protein
VEGETABLE BEAN SOUP WITH SHRIMPS
Serves: 4
Prep: 5 mins
Cook: 15 mins
Nutrition per serving:
327 kcals 11g Fats
32g Carbs 27g Protein
Why you won’t ever catch me doing things on a Bosu…
First of all, what’s a BOSU… It stands for Both Sides Up. Because guess what, you can use it either way up.
It’s a tool used to create instability, i.e. it wobbles. The theory is that because it creates instability, it makes training harder. So, for example, if you can normally squat, I dunno, 40kg, you’d struggle to get more than 25kg on a BOSU. The theory is you work harder to fight the instability and you need to activate your core more.
Which would be extremely useful if the world was made of jelly, but, thankfully it’s not.
