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The “perfect” offseason ……. Unfortunately, like most things in bodybuilding there is no “perfect”, however there are some ingredients to a very productive one! Drawing from my own experience of over 10 years of bodybuilding and more recently an offseason which saw me go from 310lbs to 340lbs (the heaviest I’ve ever been) here are the factors I found to be crucial in successfully growing without getting overly fat! Each of these points could be delved in to more but to keep things short I hope to summarize them well.   Consistency and routine:Anyone who has completed a competition prep...

You may be thinking “Well.....duh!” right? But, if we’re all thinking that, why are we all waiting until it’s almost “too late” to make a difference? I’m talking about the absolute crisis that we are seeing these days regarding obesity, not just in the UK, or America but ALL OVER THE WORLD. Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 600 million were obese. These adults all had to start somewhere right? Now, in the same year, 41 million children under the age of...

My approach to training may seem a little extreme to most, but it’s the dedication that’s needed to take part in amateur body building competitions, as well as successfully holding down a full-time job and being a dad to my five year old boy. I am a Project Support Administrator for an Engineering and Supply Chain team within the Water industry, “I’ve always trained, I like how it makes me feel and it’s a great stress relief, but competitive body building is hard, not only does it test your discipline and drive to the max but it’s hard on your...

The majority of people these days train just to burn calories and to be as lean as they possibly can, this really frustrates me. I competed in bodybuilding for many years, so I obviously had composition as my main goal but I also treated training like a performance sport, progressing lifts and even having cardio goals for fitness. The human body is designed to be used physically, get stronger and get fitter. Thousands of years ago cave men didn't know what calories even were, they travelled across all sorts of terrain, fought and battled just to hunt for food and...