Zen My Fitness – Linking Muscle and Mind

My Liquid Lunch In Singapore

One of the best things that you can do in life is to go on holidays, eat as much as you want and still lose weight.

Really I can’t think of any thing better!

Well I did just that and it’s easy when you apply just some basic principals but you need to know some facts first.

Setting the scene; I organised a 2 week trip for my wife and myself to travel to Shanghai China for the World Expo for the first week and then the second week come back through Singapore for the celebration of festival of lights called Diwali.

Now if you know Asia, it has very cheap food and drink and I knew it was going to be a big enjoyable calorie feast for most of the time.

Pre-Planning is critical for a big night out or when you go on holidays which can mean continued fitness success or food binge disaster.

So I had to plan a few things.      Read the rest of this entry »

These are 2 of the best muscle building tips on how to build a hot and lean body that I know will work for anyone.

It’s taken a few “trial and errors” but I found out the hard way, I hope it will save you some time?

If I tell you then it’s our little secret! … just kiddin’ but hell some people just don’t get it so it doesn’t matter!

Hold on there is a catch, it will be more effective if you discover your own muscle building tips rather than use mine.

Huh? you thought I was going to have all the answers?

Watch out here comes the ZEN: If you think I’m talking in circles well you are partly right.

In ZEN the truth can not really be explained in words, it can only be experienced. (Next time don’t just bench press and count the reps but focus and connect to the muscles doing the work, feel the lift, you’ll get the idea) .

It’s about others pointing the way, it’s a path to take all on your own to progress towards your goals, so create your own bodybuilding tips (hey and then pass them on).

Don’t always be the Grasshopper! Read the rest of this entry »

The best fitness source for getting the body you want can be  found in many places.

But it’s hard to get the right advice because everybody in your gym, on the internet and the weedy little guy sitting next to you on the bus are all 6 pack abs experts and have the magical formulas for getting fit! Right?, Wrong? or Maybe just a Little?

So it can get confusing and can get worse the more you read or speak to people.

Brad Pilon, the author of the well known strategic fasting book called EAT STOP EAT explains here his frustration on how people still miss the point because of too much information.

“… there are also many people who are now following a low-carb diet, cycling their calories, timing their protein, eating 6 times a day, only eating protein with fat (never carbs) AND following Eat Stop Eat.
This was not what I had envisioned. I was hoping to help people break free from this craziness!” … Brad Pilon October 2010

I mean losing body fat or building muscle is quite easy in theory but put it into practice and most people find it hard to achieve it, why?

One reason, fitness experts contradict each other; still to this day they debate what is the best way to workout or to get into shape.

Do these comments sound familiar? Read the rest of this entry »

A friend asked me to visit a blog site called “ BALD, FAT and CRAZY: The Musical”.

I don’t know this lady personally but her name is Stephanie and it’s about a woman and her life journey with Breast Cancer.

What is extraordinary about Stephanie is that she has baldness caused by chemotherapy,  her fatness was caused by being pregnant but also having the excitement of the pending adoption of a baby girl and in her words “Crazy goes to a whole new level”.

So please take the time to visit her site Bald, Fat and Crazy: The Musical and just find out how much strength one person can have!

I like to experiment and found a cool technique on how to make your veins pop out especially if you want to highlight your leanness in a photo shoot.

I know I’m diverging away a bit from what I normally write about and it’s not really Zen minded but I like amuse myself.

It will only work if you are lean enough and then use food to explode internally that is to push your veins closer to the surface.

It’s simple and sort of enjoyable when I explain what you need to do but it only last a few days.

If you want vascularity (see those veins)  to last longer then have a look at my last months body transformation workout or have a look at these videos of Visual Impact.

Visual Impact is a body building fitness program that I used to get leaner and build some muscle and the bonus section is the “get ripped” section”. It uses effective and unique techniques to get a lean muscular look.

Anyways here is what I did to make it happen. Read the rest of this entry »

Completed July 2010

At the start of 2010 I started a body building program called Visual Impact which guided me through a fitness routine of body building.

With this program I was able to transform my body in 6 months! Just in time for summer and hitting the beach.

Visual Impact is a unique body building program that is very simple and easy to follow but definitely gets results.

I achieved my goal of becoming more muscular and dropping the skinny marathon runner look that I had for awhile.

If you are looking for the same type of change you should seriously consider this program.

Rather than review the program I’ll outline what I liked about the program.

If you do want to know more details about the program here are 4 videos explaining Visual Impact.

I was never really happy with my body shape and wanted to change my physical appearance, I had to positively transform somehow for whatever reason.

So I made a decision about four years ago I wanted to lose weight which I did with mainly running but I lost body shape as well.  I ended up with a skinny, un-ripped body and looked like I needed a good feed. Read the rest of this entry »

I have read so much about Crazy Celebrity fad diets that I decided I should try one to see if they really would work.

I picked the Cabbage soup diet only because it went for 7 days and would not be so disruptive in my normal routine. It has also been recommended by medical institutions as a pre-surgery diet so I guess it couldn’t be that bad.

Most diets are not suitable for long-term weight loss but are good for losing weight fast.

The Cabbage Soup Diet is a low-fat & low- calorie, high-fiber diet that should help drop weight fast.

It could be used before you embark on a long-term eating plan.

The CABBAGE SOUP DIET

Day One: Read the rest of this entry »

This is a guest post I did recently for MMA UK Blog.

The article digs into the mind of a MMA fighter and begs the question what it takes to be real and about the sport.

Also importantly if you are like me and want to know about the latest MMA news, fight reviews and get first hand interviews with fighters (and the MMA girls) check out Aundre’s site,  it’s been rated as the fastest growing blog site for Mixed Martial Arts in the UK!

It’s a site that is informative, provides current info. and better than buying an expensive magazine off the shelf.

So here we go …

Once you enter the Octagon there is no turning back!

Sounds very dramatic doesn’t it?

Don’t take it lightly nor should anybody else who decides to enter the ring without serious consideration of what might occur.

Train all you like, have a few bouts but the cage is where your mind journey begins by acknowledging the outcomes and its consequences of this brutal sport.

An Essential Sport? ….. Read more at MMA UK Blog.

Most people only think of stretching routines as a method for increasing flexibility.

Recently I wrote about how stretching effects your GTOs (Golgi Tendon Organs) which helps you to lift heavier, and lifting heavier means you grow more!

But I want you to know about this other secret tip on how to “increase muscle size” by stretching during your work out when timed correctly.

It’s called fascia stretching.

Don’t mix this up for facial stretching, the “Celebrity Botox” kind.

I mean fascia, its a dense type of connective tissue, all of the muscle in your body is enclosed in this fascia.

The job of fascia is to help protect muscles and allow them to maintain their position throughout the body.

By stretching your fascia you can actually allow for more muscle growth to occur. Read the rest of this entry »

Crazy Celebrity Diets can work for weight loss over a longer term than just for a few days, celebrities like Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston look fantastic so their diets can’t be that bad?

In Hollywood its good to be different, so diets that make sense are usually based on sound nutritional practices but specially wrapped to sell to celebrities and then onto us, their adoring fans.

As I mentioned in my last article “diets that don’t work” the sole purpose is for rapid weight loss, the better diets are ones you can use and become healthy.

The Zone Diet – (Enter the Twilight 40:30:30 Zone)

A popular diet followed by Jennifer Anniston, Brad Pitt and Rene Zellweger was created by a scientist so not surprisingly that’s why its so formula based.

You eat meals in the ratio of Carbs 40%, Proteins 30%, Fats 30% which controls hormones and the body’s insulin to stay within a healthy region to help lose fat. Read the rest of this entry »