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4 ‘secret’ muscle and immune supporting foods
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4 ‘secret’ muscle and immune supporting foods

Have you tried these four tried and tested ideas for weight gain.

Fat Loss Handbook - Hollywood Here You Come
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Fat Loss Handbook - Hollywood Here You Come

This plan is similar to a plan followed by actors and actresses getting into shape for film roles because of its rapid effectiveness. It is also excellent for the off season need to drop weight quickly before getting back into pre-season training.

It's Bug Season! - How to Boost Your Immune System Naturally
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It's Bug Season! - How to Boost Your Immune System Naturally

This time of the year is classic for picking up a little bug. The kids go back to school and breed germs, they bring them home and infect the adults and then the adults spread them on the tube and at work or in the supermarket.

The Super Human Games: My Experience
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The Super Human Games: My Experience

Giving yourself a challenge is a cool way to help stick to a plan and have fun in the process.

Ways we can get tired (during exercise) and otherwise
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Ways we can get tired (during exercise) and otherwise

When training for these things you need to push yourself, then repair yourself. The events are across a day with 20 minutes of balls to the wall work then you get some time to recover. Thus, you experience fatigue during the event and then cumulative fatigue across the day.

Managing post-lockdown anxiety
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Managing post-lockdown anxiety

Stress when excessive can make you anxious. I don’t know about you but I don’t like anxiety – it’s haunted me on and off across a lifetime and generally I’ll do my best to follow habits that support lower anxiety in my clients and my own programmes. Here's a guide to managing stress. 

Here's how to lose those lockdown pounds
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Here's how to lose those lockdown pounds

If you gained a few pounds here are a few guides to follow which will help you.

Magnesium and other trace minerals are essential but commonly deficient, why?
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Magnesium and other trace minerals are essential but commonly deficient, why?

Trace minerals are often deficient, the reason, mineral depletion in the soil and hence foods we eat. Magnesium – the Essential Mineral for Recovery Magnesium is needed for over 300 different enzyme reactions in the body. These include reactions that...

Brain health: Stay happy and stay younger for longer.
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Brain health: Stay happy and stay younger for longer.

So coming out of lockdown I can see a lot of folk — especially the older ones — have taken a massive hit health-wise. A lack of movement and stimulus really can accelerate ageing. Here are some tips and tricks to get the old grey matter back on track.

The 5 benefits of Creatine you need to know about (PS it’s not just for muscle building!)
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The 5 benefits of Creatine you need to know about (PS it’s not just for muscle building!)

A simple search on PubMed for creatine and brain shows the many ways creatine can both protect and enhance brain function and help with energy levels and even depression.

Maintaining High Quality Behaviours
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Maintaining High Quality Behaviours

As we come out of lockdown, keeping and reaffirming high-quality behaviours will be key in this new era, as key as it's ever been in the past. A few thoughts and some nice little coaching points and gems in here. 

Immune System Boosting Comprehensive Review
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Immune System Boosting Comprehensive Review

Immunity is an obvious thing to support. A few things I think about when doing this for clients: For training, when you get ill – normally it takes 5-7 days. Viruses take around this long to multiply and get hold...