You’ve been losing weight consistently for weeks, feeling great about your progress, then BAM! There’s a week where you do EXACTLY the same thing you’ve been doing that’s been working for, or maybe it’s even been a better week than usual and…. Nothing,...
This is a conversation I have a lot with new clients “I want to lose weight, I’ve put on a lot of weight in the last year” “I need to train 6 times, that’s when I was at my leanest” “So, what happened, why aren’t you still there?” “Oh I got too busy/I have kids...
Losing weight WITHOUT giving up alcohol You would lose weight but you like red wine too much What if I told you it was possible to have both? A glass of red win a night is not going to stop you from creating a body that you love, one that gives you the energy to do...
Just relax, eat whatever you like, drink, be merry Look, it’s not bad advice It’s the holidays after all, you should be relaxing The key though, is whether you actually find that relaxing, you might not It might be that eating enough to...
You’ve heard of a comfort zone, but do you truly understand the effect it’s having on you? If you’re not careful your comfort zone gets smaller and smaller over time You know this, how awesome was $20 when you were 15 The same is probably not...
Just started planning our first nutrition challenge in the new gym and I thought it would be a good time to share the nutrition philosophy we follow here at Blinco Built It’s simple, but crazy effective 1) Eat whole foods 2) Prioritise protein 3) Veggies with every...
It’s not the what you do that makes the difference, it’s the why and then how you do it At this point you could see research on people trying the same exercise and diet routines and getting results or not getting results based on their opinion on whether those...
Wabi Sabi. Acceptance of the imperfection and the incompleteness of nature, even our human nature It’s a beautiful concept, in a world where machine learning and mass production are becoming more and more pronounced, there is something beautiful about the concept of...
Are you playing the infinite game or the finite game? Hopefully your answer is: it depends Finite games have their place, these are the games you can play to win, like Monopoly (imagine the horror of playing Monopoly forever…) Infinite games cannot be won, hopefully...
Walking into a new gym may be the scariest thing you have to do It’s a foreign environment, you have no idea what to expect, there are people in there that know each other really well (if the gym has a great community), which is great! Except they don’t know you so...
You need problems. The idea of any sort of improvement isn’t to eliminate all your problems, it’s to get rid of the boring, annoying problems and replace them with meaningful, joyful problems, the kind of problems you’d love to have Problems like, should you kick the...
Everything is a skill. Once upon a time you didn’t know how to tie your shoelaces, what about your job? Did you walk on and know everything you know now and do the same quality of work you do now? Of course not Training and nutrition are not different. You can’t...
Why do we lift weights? It’s a good question, why not just do aerobic cardiovascular work all the time? There are certainly some huge benefits to being aerobically fit, like there are to being strong, our stance is, why not both? “Strong people are harder to...
When’s the last time you counted how fast you perform a squat? Sure you count the reps, the weight and the sets, but tempo? What the hell is that about anyway? Tempo is the time you take to go down, how long you stay in the bottom (stretched position), how long you...
What are principles vs strategies and why should you even care? If you’re like everyone else, you’ve probably banged your head against the wall chasing different strategies to get the results you want without a clue what the principles are and wondered why you...