Posted on 13 January 2010
I’m willing to bet you’d love to know exactly how to minimize your body fat.
Unfortunately there is so much information out there (much of which is very contradictory) that you just don’t know where to start. As a result, you do just that – don’t start!
The truth is that dropping unwanted body fat is in [...]
Tags: alkaline diet, alkaline food, healthy fat loss, new rules of fat loss
Posted on 05 January 2010
For the next 12 weeks I’ll be trialling the new style Intense Conditioning with some other poor bastards.
This time there is more focus on strength and power and the physique side of things and a whole new world of nutrition beyond the outdated and overrated protein, carb, fat arguments. This is about performance through health [...]
Posted on 29 December 2009
Most people a week before going home for Christmas are thinking about Christmas trees, eating 15lbs of Turkey in one sitting and how to stitch up Uncle Tommy with a whoopee cushion.
I’m usually in this category, but this year found myself in the freezing valleys of South Wales with the UK’s top strength and conditioning [...]
Tags: enhancing lifes journey, intense conditioning, internship, phil richards, strength training
Posted on 15 November 2009
If you haven’t heard about Intense Conditioning you should have!
I’m going to be relaunching it next year but need some more testimonials and so I’m on the hunt for some more Guinea Pigs.
I’m looking for 5 men and 5 women to start the program on Monday January 4th for 12 weeks. If you are going [...]
Tags: intense conditioning, intense conditioning workouts, strength and conditioning programs, tough workouts
Posted on 13 November 2009
Are you reeeeeeady?
Ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls. Brace yourself for the biggest, the baddest, the most incredible amount of fitness bullshit you’ve ever seen – heading to a town near you in 2010.
Yes it’s nearly that time again when internet fitness experts (many of whom don’t actually train anyone anymore because they make enough [...]
Posted on 31 October 2009
I had an awesome session this morning – here’s how it went down!
A1: 5 x 5 Power push ups with clap behind back
A2: 5 x 10 Lying single arm med ball throw (think front crawl upside down!)
B1: Handstand push ups 5 x 3-5
C1: Seated row 3 x 8 @ 75kg
C2: Dumbbell chest press 3 x [...]
Tags: metabolic circuits, plyometrics for upper body, strength training, upper body training
Posted on 27 October 2009
The chances are if you’re reading this you know me fairly well and you know I don’t mess about when training myself or other people!
Because of this, I get many emails from new friends asking if they could handle the Intense Conditioning program, so here’s the no-bullshit lowdown including stuff you may not know….
1) ‘Fat [...]
Tags: conditioning for athletes, conditioning training, conditioning workouts, intense conditioning
Posted on 19 October 2009
Anyone who has any knowledge of fitness beyond the Nintendo Wii, should know by now that interval training must be part of your training whether you’re in it for fat loss, improved running speed, lactic acid tolerance or simply hardcore conditioning and pain tolerance.
However, there’s more to it than ‘run as fast as you can [...]
Tags: hill intervals, interval training, intervals
Posted on 11 October 2009
In Part 1 we discussed how life is a set of waves. Learning how and when to ride the waves and learning to spot which ones are worth riding, is the key to fulfilment, happiness and developing the physical appearance and capabilities of the Bionic Man.
In training, the key to this is carefully planned deload [...]
Tags: deload cycles, how to deload, training deload
Posted on 11 October 2009
Most people don’t train hard enough. Anyone who has spent five minutes in any commercial gym across the world will know this to be an indisputable truth.
However, at the other end of the spectrum we have those who have a complete inability to accept that they are not in fact the unbreakable machine they like [...]
Tags: deload, deload methods, training cycles, training deload