Tony Attridge

Recently I was having a look at some suggested Facebook pages that people wanted me to like. One of them I looked at and thought this sounds interesting so I looked into the page a little more. What I found was very typical of today's fitness industry. Here is a young coach just finished their PT course and has completed two other courses since graduating. This is a young person on a mission. The tag line was No bullshit, Results based, Science based Strength and Composit

If you want to lose body fat eating less and exercising more used to be the mantra provided to you by health and fitness professionals. However we know this does not work. If it did there would be no need for personal trainers, nutritionists, food coaches and weight loss companies. Only a very few people will lose weight by following this old school protocol. Blaming weight gain on eating too much has been occurring for centuries. However it does not take into account bio

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) There is a range of ways in which to measure body fat levels. These range from the most accurate which would be upon death removing all of your body fat from you and weighing it to using Body Mass Index as the least most accurate. One of the more popular tests coming into the consumer market now is that of bioelectrical impedance analysis. How does BIA work? In conventional BIA, the following information is required, the person’s weight

What does nutrition and politics have in common? Everyone has an opinion on both subjects, even armchair critics who have only a little bit of information. Everyone has an opinion about nutrition and as a result there is a lot of misinformation and misinterpretation. One of the key aspects of nutrition is that there are a number of assumptions which are based on little or out-dated scientific evidence. One of the key areas where this occurs is the use of supplements where a

There is a rise of people in the wellness industry at the moment called food coaches. Why do we need another profession when this is something that is adequately covered by dieticians and nutritionists who spend between 3-4 years obtaining their qualification versus a two-day intensive workshop and 5 subjects studied via correspondence? The rise of another profession in the health and fitness industry will lead to once again another watering down of the industry by providing

The Healthy Living Food Pyramid According to this pyramid the more we move the more calories we use from the food we eat. Now this makes sense at a baseline level for the general population. However it assumes that all movement in calorie expenditure is equal. Now this is not the case as it depends on movement efficiency as well as the level of intensity of the exercise itself. The next level in this pyramid is what is classified as eat most. On this level we have plant ba

For those of you reading this blog who are old enough to remember the fat-free boom that was in force in the 1990's you will remember avoiding eggs, cheese, nuts, avocados and eating carbohydrates and sugar based food instead. However research in the mid 1990's started to show that this diet did not lead to either a reduction in heart attacks or obesity levels. However people were and still are purchasing fat free foods. The fact that this research was not released was due t

Megarexia is the opposite of anorexia. It is the obsession of getting bigger and having bigger muscles. This obsession often leads to overtraining and disordered eating plans. However it is a psychological issue that leads the person affected with seeing their body smaller then what it really is. Once training and diet have reached the persons genetic limits they often turn to pharmacology to keep up the rate of muscle growth and size gains. This may then lead to other illn

Why would you trust Google? Lets look at some facts. You type in weight loss into a search bar and you get a lot of weight loss programs and personal opinions that have no scientific basis behind them on how to lose weight. You type in lean muscle tissue gain you have a significant number of companies pop up advertising their supplements and products rather then scientifically proven facts on how to achieve these results. When you rely on Google or others who have a hidden ag

Opinions are like mouths, everyone has one. What is often interesting though it is often the person with the biggest mouth who give their opinions the loudest. Now just because they are the loudest does not mean that they know the most. I have just had the privilege to watch a webinar that is about to be released to the general public that states that it is the Fundamentals of Exercise programming. While the content was sound, a lot of it was copied from a publication by Pe