Hello

So I’ve decided to start blogging to give people an insight into my thoughts on training and nutrition along with things that I’ve found that work for me. Having been training for around 10 years I think I’ve managed to gather enough knowledge and experience to help people in some way.

From my years of training the main thing that helped me outside the gym was reading and educating myself. The first 4/5 years in the gym I spent basing my workouts on random exercises mostly by copying people and doing what the bigger guys in the gym did. Throughout most of my early years in the gym I focused most of my time on upper body workouts making sure I did my bicep curls and bench presses while neglecting other important movements like the squats and deadlifts. It was only until around 2 years ago that I began deadlifting and squatting regularly and a decent training routine soon followed along with a consistent dieting philosophy. Prior to the last 2 years I spent much of my time experimenting with various diet and training routines and consider them a valuable part of my learning curve.

Having tried almost every routine imaginable and testing various diets along the way I feel that I’ve made most progress by taking a step back and making things simple. Understanding the science behind much of what I was trying to do while deciding which aspects of my training and nutrition were yielding the most returns and which aspects were soaking up the bulk of my efforts and hardly making a difference for me in reaching my goals was a huge factor in improving my progress.

I’ve always been interested in expanding my knowledge on training and nutrition and having read hundreds of articles, blogs and books over the years I think I can offer a lot of information to people and I think doing it through this blog is probably the most effective way. Hopefully through all the things I’ve learnt I can help explain things in my own way by using my experiences as examples and get into some interesting discussions about your experiences. Feel free to get involved through the comments, I’ll try to make regular entries as much as time allows me. I do spend a lot of my day in the gym taking selfies or in the kitchen experimenting with new recipes but I’ll try my best.

Hope you enjoy reading!

Me trying to copy the iconic Frank Zane pose. Noticed we’ve got the same vein running through our lats. Coincidence? I think not!