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Written by Matt Lindsay
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This coming weekend, one of our members: Sarah Han-de-Beaux will be running the Grim challenge for charity. As always, we send our support and encouragement to anyone going out of their way to push their boundaries... especially if it's for charity. A message from Sarah....
"This Saturday 4th December and Sunday 5th December is the GRIM Challenge; a running event held in Aldershot army off road vehicle testing ground.The GRIM involves running, wading and crawling for 8 miles over an obstacle course, which means getting pretty wet and cold as well as knackered from all the running! The official Grim Challenge website can be found at http://www.grimchallenge.co.uk/.
I have only been running now for about 6 weeks and so far my longest run has been 6 miles. I am not a very good runner yet, but I am hoping after this event running on roads will be a piece of cake!
I encourage you to please sponsor me by going to the following website http://www.justgiving.com/Mike-Reynolds0"
I encourage you, if you can spare a few quid, to head over to their justgiving page and help them out will a little sponsorship.
Train Hard
Matt |
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Cardiorespiratory adaptations to exercise |
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Written by Matt Lindsay
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I think It's pretty safe to say that if you're a fan (or a member) or Training4Muscles then you're taking your training pretty seriously. This article wont be of much interest to all those people who "head down the gym" to check out chicks (or guys!), give themselves something to tell their mates or to read a book (how do people do that in the gym??!!). This is about what happens to your body when you exercise on a regular basis.....
Changes occur to the muscle fibres that you employ during training. That sounds like an obvious thing to say, but take a second to think about it.... if you're working hard to isolate specific muscles, you're missing out on the work you do to the stabalisers, neutralises, antagonist etc. This suggests that "functional" training can be very beneficial if you have an end goal in mind for your training; you get what you train for. Anyhow, this is called "Specificity" when related to training.
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When is junk food healthy? |
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Written by Matt Lindsay
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OK, we all crave junk food every now and again... you don't? Well lucky you then! For the remaining 99.9% of us that find ourselves craving junk food week after week you might have ended up asking yourself the question "When is junk food OK for me"?
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JamesSchofieldTraining - One to keep an eye on |
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Written by Matt Lindsay
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 It's always nice to see new sites appearing around the net that have a strong focus on cutting through the garbage and here's one for you that's worth checking out. jamesschofieldtraining.co.uk is the brainchild of James Schofield, a British weight trainer, martial artist and general fitness enthusiast. James takes a pragmatic approach to training, practising what he preaches and that can only be a good thing. It's tough to swallow all the advice that's dished out by “professional” on the net (most of them heavily funded by supplement companies) so it's always refreshing to see someone out there dishing out news and information on the ground level.
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How many calories do I needs in a day? |
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Written by Matt Lindsay
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I’m often astounded by people who pipe up in the pub/bar/work that they have more/less than their calories for that day. I’m astounded because many of these people don’t really know what their caloric intake for the day should actually be. The problem is that we blindly follow that men are recommended to have 2500Kcal a day and women just 2000Kcal. WHAT?
We all know there is no “normal” person… but a generalisation of this magnitude surprises me that it has gone unnoticed. Do you honestly expect that a 55Kg man will need as much as a 110kg man? More to the point though… does he need double?
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