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Women's Health

Amna Al Haddad – First Female Emirati Weightlifter

“You can always decide how far you want to go with weight training, losing body fat, or becoming a competitive athlete in strength sports. Everything that happens will be based on a choice you decide to make.” Anna Al Haddad, Olympic Female Weightlifter UP for Women recently talked to Amna Al Haddad, an Olympic weightlifter competing internationally…

22 August 20160Comments

Sam’s Journey – Week 9: Under Pressure

Week 9?! Well that came around quick. Now I have just 3 weeks to achieve my goal of being fit enough to be considered for the next Marvel heroine. On a serious note, having a goal is always important and one of the best things about this 12 week transformation is the timeframe you are…

18 August 20160Comments

Build Muscle

5 Bodybuilding Lessons to Learn from Gymnasts

Gymnasts possess some of the most impressive and powerful physiques on the planet. Every four years as the Olympics roll by, anyone with an interest in body composition simply marvels at the excellence displayed on their TV screens. Huge, muscular arms. Wide, capped deltoids. Barn-door backs. Gymnasts possess them all and more. Back in the early…

18 August 20160Comments

Recipes

UP Food: 3 Ways to use UP’s Chocolate Superfood

A LITTLE CHOCOLATE WON'T HURT. (No-Seriously) Chocotrients by Ultimate Performance is an easy-to-mix, great tasting, nutrient-rich superfood formula with whole food concentrates designed to provide synergistic phytonutrient nutrition. It provides a super blend of 100% natural fruit and vegetable extracts, vitamins, enzymes and symbiotic intestinal flora - high in antioxidants, lignin's and phytonutrients. The guilt-free goodness is…

3 Ways to Try Chocotrients: Chocolate Banana Cake

Bursting with Benefits Banana Bread You know that saying “The best thing since sliced bread” well, sliced Banana Bread is exactly that, and more. Made from simple, clean ingredients and free from refined sugars, each slice offers the texture of cake but with the added beneficial properties of bananas, good fats and the option of…

3 Ways with Chocotrients: Chocolate Nut Fudge Bites

Nourishing Nut Fudge Bites Peanut Butter. Need I say anymore? This wonder ingredient is a great source of healthy fats, Vitamin E, Protein and well I’m sure you already know just how good it tastes. Each fudgy bite will help to diminish any cravings for sweet treats and because it’s stored in the fridge it’s…

3 Ways with Chocotrients: Chocolate Ice Cream

Nutritious Chocolate Ice-Cream Summer is a difficult time to get on board with healthy eating and working out; when the Sun shines it’s automatically an invitation for an ice-cold treat. Sadly, most options are packed full of artificial nasty’s and sugars that don’t bode well when trying to attain real results. Thankfully, you’re just two…

Diet

Why Strength Should Be The Foundation of your Programme

When creating your own programme, whether you’re training for body composition, performance or muscle mass as your main goal, strength training should be the foundation of your programme. Before we go any further, take note that strength is not an action (lifting maximal weights); strength is used to realise these actions and any muscular action requiring…

27 July 20160Comments

My Fitness Journey – Week 7: A Fitness Lifestyle

I've been sat here for a while now, wondering what on earth to say about this week - I have to say something right? Then I realised, the reason I'm struggling to think of anything to report is because the training, the clean eating and this new fitness lifestyle is actually just becoming 'the norm'. It's no longer…

25 July 20160Comments