Nick Mitchell covers a question from a personal training client on the principle of overload to build muscle.
Ultimate Performance
A question and answer from Nick Mitchell’s personal training Facebook group, addressing bulking up and cardio.
Unsure as to what stretching between sets is, or what type of stretching should be done in between? Read on to find out
Achieving your first chin-up is one of the best feelings youll ever get in the weights room, no matter…
Now the Transformation Course is Over - What's Next for Sam?
Well, I certainly wasn't expecting that - close to 1000 people liked my 'before and after' photo on Facebook, hundreds on Instagram and even more on LinkedIn (of all places), I completed my 12-week transformation with UP and I can quite proudly say it…
When it comes to pushing the envelope in the gym, women beat men hands down.
Once a woman passes the beginner stage of training and they start to learn how to contract muscle, lift a decent amount of weight and forget about their cardio-ridden past's, something special always happens.
Here are five ways women are better than…
The subject of when to introduce carbs back into your diet is often a tricky one.
I know that people want clear and defined answers, but as always with the “artisan craft” that is body composition improvement (it is both a skill that needs to be learned and studied, but also something that requires experience and…
Part one saw women winning the age-old gender battle with their innate ability to out-perform men in the gym.
However, it’s not all one way.
Here're five ways men are better than women:
1. Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Men are physically stronger than women, as they have, on average, more total muscle mass, both in absolute terms and relative…
When trying to optimise your training, whether for sports performance or body composition, an important consideration is how to implement cardio and resistance training in the same training phase. Training concurrently for adaptations in resistance and endurance training known (unsurprisingly) as concurrent training (often resistance training and cardiovascular training in the same session) - is…