Iamprotein is not a particularly topical blog, although I do occasionally issue a post in response to current events, such as the deaths...

WARNING: Every now-and-again I write a post that has only the most tenuous of links to bodybuilding — this is one. If you are somewhat...

Recently I was training with my long-term client and very good friend, Michael. Mike and I have trained together for nearly 20 years and...

I have spent a huge amount of my life in the gym, either training or coaching, and have loved every single moment of it! In the 39 years...

I was showing my client Vash how to do Cable Crossovers recently, when he annoyed me. Instead of focusing on performing this valuable...

By now the bodybuilding community, and the wider world in general, know that Franco Columbu has died. For the non-bodybuilding fan...

For those of us who love to exercise and eat clean, going on holiday can be problematic — especially if you are on a family holiday....

WARNING:  This post has very little to do with bodybuilding and fitness. It is more of a meandering story of an incident in my life and...

TRAIN HARD — LAUGH HARDER!!! Lifting weights is fun! I know this because Arnold has decreed it so! Any article you read, or video you...

William Sheldon, MD, introduced the concept of body types, or somatotypes, in the 1940s. Since then, nutritionists, exercise...

Recently I picked up a new client, or to be more accurate, she picked me — as she wrote in one of our first text exchanges: “Yep I picked...

I remember, as a young lad attending school at St John’s College in Johannesburg, being introduced to a psychological system designed to...

I chat a lot with my clients about diet and healthy eating — creating a positive mind-set and developing sustainable dietary strategies....

I have a client that I train five times a week — clearly a motivated and dedicated person — who has trained with me for over two years....

Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. —Jim Rohn...

So here we are in early February. Sigh. The gym is packed, which is good . . . and bad. And while it is true that everyone has to start...

I started lifting weights in 1980 when I was thirteen years old, five years after the above photo of Arnold was taken at the 1975 Mr...

“Regardless of assigned diet, 12 month weight change was greater in the most adherent. These results suggest that strategies to increase...

In my teens I became aware of an American man who had an expression that summed up how he felt life ought to be lived. His expression was...

As my many (gulp!) regular readers of iamprotein.co.uk will by now doubtless know, I started bodybuilding when I was a thirteen-year-old...