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Nutrition
You may remember amino acids from your time in school – they’re used by the body to create proteins and form an essential part of our diets. You can’t synthesise your essential amino acids, so you’ve got to find natural sources of them in your food. Leucine is also big in sports nutrition right now, touted as an amino acid to be taken post-workout to increase protein synthesis. +
Fitness
Despite parents’ efforts in shuttling their children to and from sports practices and events, they often – as is well known – neglect their own health, though we occasionally see the irony in how much exercise our kids are getting and how little we get ourselves. Martial arts, touted for all the benefits they offer young people, are a great way for parents to maintain their own health. Start with a practice that appeals to the whole family, and you’ll all get the payoff. +
Health
The Guardian recently reported that limb lengthening surgery is becoming a hugely popular practice in India, but that many of the surgeries were unregulated and risky. Limb lengthening, which most often means leg lengthening but can also include arms, is a more common practice than you might realise in Europe and the UK. +
Fitness
Whether you’d like to lose weight, burn fat or build muscle, you’ll want any workouts that you embark on to deliver results. Running and cycling are perhaps two of the easiest and most popular forms of exercise to do, but which one is better? +
Fitness
The London Marathon is a huge annual event, and if you’ve been watching from the comfort of your sofa, then you might feel motivated to enter next year. Signing up for a marathon is not a decision to be taken lightly, and you’ll need to have time to train, as well as bags of self-motivation to keep you through the difficult stages of training. However, if you want to start running, here are a few tips to get yourself moving. +
Fitness
How do you start the process of becoming a personal trainer? Our comprehensive resource guide runs you through it. +
Fitness
Summer is on the way and so thoughts will be turning to holidays in the sun and the best way to get “beach ready” before the swim suits and board shorts come out! +
Fitness
Hi guys, I hope your training is going well? Since the turn of the year I’m lucky enough to have two new training partners and they’re both completely different. One’s an excellent runner and the other is an excellent weight trainer. I’m looking at it from both angles and we’re motivating each other to get in the gym. +
Fitness
I hope you all had a great Christmas and I wish you all the best for 2016. I don’t know about you but I’m ready to get back into a routine. I’ve eaten and drank so much over Christmas but you know what, not once did I feel guilty! +
Fitness
Recently in the UK, we have seen an increase in cycling insurance providers who claim that your cycling gear won’t be covered by your home insurance policy. +