
DELAYING AND REVERSING FRAILTY
We all want to have a long life, but no one wants to grow old. My wife Suzy and I sometimes chat about getting older and how we feel...

HEALTHSPAN
I’ll be turning 51 in a few weeks. It’s been an interesting year. A year that has taken me by surprise. Birthdays with zeros in them are...

Haney vs Samir in ‘83?
I remember as a teenager, when seeing this photo of Lee Haney and Samir Bannout for the first time, how fascinated I was by it. I was...

GYM GROUP PHOTOS
Geraint Thomas recently became the third Briton and first Welshman to win the Tour de France. C’est Magnifique Geraint!! As a keen...

FORGOTTEN BODYBUILDERS: Roy Callender
I started lifting weights when I was 13. This new world of training and bodybuilding was a very exciting and interesting one, but the...

EAST WEST STREET.....and Beyond!
My dear wife Suzy bought a couple of books for me at Christmas time, one of which was a non fiction work entitled East West Street by...

FORGOTTEN BODYBUILDERS :
GUNNAR ROSBO Bodybuilding, like all sports, has its heros, it’s legends, it’s athletes that will endure in our memories long after they...

So Serene Serena
Whilst I’m not much of a tennis fan and not much of a Serena fan I loved this quote of hers. Obviously as a PT I have plenty of clients...

Keep Pumping!!
Recently I wrote a post on how getting a pump was like traveling forward in time as pumped up muscle gives you a glimpse of how you will...

Jingle bells!
Here we have Samir Bannout winning the 1983 Mr Olympia. To a fan of modern bodybuilding this photo will not really impress. Dozens of...

Gamble the price of a stamp
Anyone who ever read a comic will recognise this wonderful ad!! CHARLES ATLAS’S DYNAMIC TENSION!!! One of the best loved and longest...

On yer bike......
A recent study conducted by Kings College London on a group of elderly (some in their 80’s) long distance cyclists has some very...

I knew it all along....
I am not a scientific person. Difficult concepts like “numbers” befuzzle me! I work on instinct and intuition. An article like the one...














