Busting your own myths
Guest post by Belinda Thomson Sometimes you reach a point where you ask: ‘Is this as good as I get?’ I was training pretty hard, watching my diet – I figured I was doing everything right. But I just couldn’t seem to get any leaner. I had good strength gains, but it was kind of [...]
Why You’re NOT Achieving Results
Before we go on, let’s understand that the meaning of “Achieve” is … to carry out successfully! So what’s the answer? It’s in the meaning “carry out successfully” …. How do you do that? CONSISTENCY! CONSISTENCY! CONSISTENCY! and something else you may want to try is CONSISTENCY! Regardless of what your goal is in life, there [...]
What’s on the Menu 4
Not much today, but more to show you that it doesn’t need to be complex or involve much cooking to get a good feed in. duck breast pan fried in ghee fermented vegtables (this is similar to sauerkraut) blueberries macadamia nut butter The lacto-fermented vegetables are really good with game meats: the vinegary sourness really [...]
What’s on the Menu 3
Muckeld Egg This was one of my Granddad’s favourite breakfasts, and I grew up with this… when the Fam gets together and we go away, this is always on the breaky menu. I ate it for dinner the other night, got home late and wasn’t much left in the fridge so whipped this up in [...]
What’s on the Menu 2
Mexican Style Veal Slow Cook. 1kg diced veal 1 ham hock (optional could use some nitrate free bacon, this just adds a real depth of flavour) 1 tin tomatoes 1 medium brown onion diced 1/2 bulb garlic diced 1 filtered cup water 1 good quality organic vegetable stock cube (forget that rubbish shit at the [...]
What’s on the Menu 1
Thought i start throwing one of these posts out each week, as i always get people complaining they don’t know what to cook, and food is getting boring etc, etc, my general reply is pull your skirt up you fairy and watch a cooking show or read a cookbook, well now you read the latest [...]
Don’t have time for breakfast?
BULLSHIT! You’re just not organised… Let’s look at how much time it really takes – this is what I did this morning, 5.45am – alarm goes off, straight out of bed, I don’t hit the snooze button because that’s not going to make a difference. It will just make you feel like shit for the [...]
Guilt Free Ice Cream – and some cool coconut facts
I’ve been playing around with this one for the last couple of days and seeing what I can do with it. I got the idea from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals, but put my own twist on it and without blowin’ my own trumpet, it worked out much better. The problem I’ve found with this is [...]
Why you look like a kayan tribe member.
If this is a family portrait of you, Then you may be a close descendant of a giraffe or some trainer/therapist who thinks that directly targeting the neck muscles will result in injury to the cervical vertebrae. Well nothing can be farther from the truth, especially if you compete in a contact sports like – [...]
5 Reasons You Still Have Pathetic Arms
I have a natural masculine truth that will stand the test of time for as long as I am associated with exercise in any shape or form. The only thing that males enjoy more than drawling over the hot blonde on the cross trainer is training their arms.
Sweet Potato & Chick Pea Soup
500ml quality vegetable stock 2 tins tomatoes 1 bulb of garlic 1 thumb size piece of ginger 1-2 chilies (habanero/scotch bonnet peppers, are best but remove seeds and pith if you dont want your head to blow off) 1/2 bunch of thyme 2-4 lemon myrtle leaves (if you cant find just leave out) 2-3 sweet [...]
