Tony Attridge

Part of the reason of setting up this blog was to educate and inform about nutrition, health and fitness, as it is relevant to the general population. One thing that has never ceased to amaze me is the willingness of others to follow a fitspo regardless of the fact they often have no qualifications except for being genetically blessed. Just because someone looks like a Greek God or Goddess does not mean that they know what they are talking about when it comes to your health

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By now most of you would be aware that the Olympics have started and you have been cheering on your respective countries' athletes to hopeful success. Yet how many of you know what really happens behind the glamor? The training, the sacrifices, the early mornings, the injuries, the meal plans that require strict adherence for optimal performance. How many of you would be willing to sacrifice a large portion of your youth to chase an Olympic Dream? All while not getting paid

What is it? Nitric oxide facilitates the cells ability to work with each other throughout the body. In 1998 The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to researchers who discovered the benefits of nitric oxide. The benefits discovered include the following: A faster recovery Lactic acid reduction Improved endurance Increased training muscle pump Better vascularity Improve immune system response Better body temperature regulation Enhanced glucose clearance rates Heart disease p

One of the key factors in body fat loss is to increase your metabolism. There are a number of ways in which to do this. You could increase your lean muscle mass, you could take thermogenics, you could take drugs or you could eat more. Now when faced with these options the easiest would be to take drugs or thermogenics but there is an inherent risk of choosing these options of doing long-term damage to your body and your health. The option of increasing lean muscle tissue i

One of the biggest myths in the fitness industry is that portrayed time and again in magazines and newsfeeds is that the best way to get into a lean muscular shape, get tighter abs, get fitter, look good in a pair of jeans or bikinis is that it only takes a few minutes a day and that you need to do cardio and no resistance training. Lifting weights will make you bulky Lifting weights will help increase lean muscle mass in females but it will not cause a dramatic increase in b

Gaining or losing weight is relatively easy. Programs that promise rapid weight loss often deliver due to a very low calorie diet combined with excessive exercise. The issue with this type of program is that the delivery of the rapid weight loss has a number of significant negative effects on the body. These effects include the following: 1. Muscle Atrophy 2. Increased Fatigue Levels 3. Increased Cortisol Levels 4. Dehydration 5. Decreased Serum Testosterone Levels 6. Decre

There are a number of ways in which regardless of what your training goals are that you will impede your progress towards them. The first major issue it to have conflicting goals. So you want to improve your cardiovascular fitness as well as increase your muscularity? These are conflicting goals as they operate on the opposite ends of the physiological spectrum. To improve your cardiovascular fitness you need to train often and at a relatively high intensity performing rhyth

I have been watching with interest since my last blog a few individuals saying that leadership is all about supporting and helping people and being positive. They are also against the idea of constructive based feedback. Or as it had been termed criticism. To be supportive and positive is only one facet of leadership to provide. The problem is if we solely focus on the positives we bring up a world full of people who are unable to handle critiscim and to learn from their m

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