Tip 2: Eat Protein at Every Meal!

Protein increases muscle mass, without you cant grow or get lean!

Heres a few reasons why you should be consuming it:

It keeps the insulin levels of the bloody regular. Erratic blood sugar level lead to energy dips...

It fills you up quicker and therefore prevents over eating...

It helps your gut regulate the speed at which food passes through it...

Most importantly it raises your metabolic rate, this then can lead to keeping your bodyfat LOW!!!!

So chow down that meat and fish, there a huge variety of different sources avaliable, make friends with your butcher and they can suggest unusual cuts to you...

OC

Tip 1: Get your body fat measured often!

Weight loss in terms of pounds or kgs on the scales doesnt always reflect on progress!

On a very restricted calorie diet the initial losses are glycogen and water. Losing too much can have a negative effect. Bodyfat should be your preferred method of understanding your goals and challenges.

To accurately measure body fat % you should go and see a skilled practitioner with access to QUALITY calipers, not those white plastic things!

Make sure they take measurements from all over the body.... only take them from the 4 upper body sites and you dont get a true representation... you just have to look on the high street to see people with huge thighs and bums and a small upper body.... how would they score on a body fat % test that was only taken from the arm, back and hip?

The 10 sites OC Fitness test from are: tricep, bicep (the arm), subscapular (back), supra-illiac (hip), pec (chest), mid-auxillary (halfway between hip and armpit), umbilical (stomach), patella (knee), calf, quadriceps, hamstring (legs) and finally the cheek and chin. I think you'll agree thats alot more comprehensive and potentially more accurate...

Come and get your body fat measured and then remeasured regularly to see that the gains or losses you are making are the ones your after!

OC

My Next Qualification- oh yes another one!!!

Soooo its that time again, im craving something...

KNOWLEDGE!

So i decided its time to start forking out big money and getting myself on the best courses money can buy!

Ive researched high and low and came up with only one option:

Charles Poliquin. His CV speaks for itself, hes trained over 15 Olympic medal winners and has one of the most successful world wide training companies.

What am i doing? Im taking the Poliquin International Certification Program Levels 1 & 2 in Sweden in October. I simply cannot wait. Level one will concentrate on Upper Body and Level 2 Lower Body. The theory manuals have arrived and ive started the note taking already. Just by the way its written and the facts within the material i can tell that i will enjoy this course and will gain multiple skills from it. Already ive introduced pieces of it to my clients training and low and behold there results are showing it!

Look forward to telling you more about it the further into the theory i get!