4 Ways to Boost Your Mass-Gain Program
Lots of people want to be bigger. Many of them never really get there. So, what are the keys to making big gains in size and strength? 1. Get serious about eating Let’s be clear here: you need to eat a lot of food to gain serious muscle. More than you’re used to, and probably [...]
Stuff I Learned in 2012
I’d like to share a collection of things I’ve read and watched this year. If you want to continuously get better, you have to continuously learn. Strong(er) Series, Purposeful Primitive and Programs that Work were all re-reads. I like to revisit a few books each year that I have already read and enjoyed. Carbnite & Carb [...]
Why your mother was right
Guest post by Belinda Thomson ‘Eat your veggies’. It’s the refrain of mothers worldwide. And guess what, they’re right. Whether you’re looking to lose fat or gain muscle, veggies are crucial. They not only give you the nutrients you need, they balance out the acid/alkali levels in your body, make you feel fuller, pump up [...]
‘But what do you actually eat?!’
Guest post by Belinda Thomson It’s become a rite of passage for people who start working in our office: someone points at me in the kitchen and explains ‘oh, that’s Belinda, she always eats weird stuff for breakfast’. You know, like, stuff that’s not toast or cereal. Stuff like meat. Crazy huh? People find it [...]
What Does Your Meat Really Cost You? Part 2
People always ask me what I eat for breakfast and when I say a steak, they respond with ‘I wish I could afford to have a steak for breakfast!’. Well you can: it’s not expensive, you just don’t know how to shop. Here’s how I make it work: – Firstly, I have a good butcher [...]
What Does Your Meat Really Cost You? Part 1
In the very long list of excuses I hear for not eating right, most of them simply come down to ‘it’s too hard’. Sometimes that might be disguised as ‘I don’t have time’ or ‘it’s too expensive’ or even ‘I don’t know how’. But at the end of the day, they all mean one thing: [...]
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 [...]
