To maintain a healthy diet, it is important to have healthy snack readily available - to avoid bingeing on things you really don't want or need. A favourite snack of mine is to have a healthy dip with some sliced raw vegetables or a couple of water crackers.
After writing a post on Top 10 Tips For Keeping Up Your Fitness Regime, using my top tips from Twitter, I thought I would also share with you my top Twitter diet tips - to help you kick-start and maintain a healthy diet.
Unless you are experienced with exercise, or have an experienced trainer, it can be hard to know if you are doing the right exercise, with the right intensity, and regularly enough, to achieve the fitness/strength/fat loss goals you are looking to achieve.
Having enjoyed competing in a strongman competition earlier this year, I recently made the decision to have a go at powerlifting. I've been looking for a strength/fitness based sport to compete in and powerlifting is a sporting endeavour that I think I am well suited to - for a couple of reasons:
Diets come in all shapes and sizes - high protein diets, low fat diets, low carbohydrate diets, low calorie diets - and some involve very specific (and complex) rules and food choices.
It can be hard to find snacks that are both nutritious and tasty. Our supermarkets are lined with chips, biscuits, confectionery and cakes - which may be nice to eat, but are not healthy, and are not ideal daily snack foods.
There is no denying that the weight loss industry is booming - with a proliferation of diets, programs and plans available for people looking to lose unwanted kilos.
Most people, whether they're new to exercise, are a long-term gym goer, or are an accomplished athlete, experience muscle soreness 12-48 hours after they do a new and/or tough training session. Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is the term used to explain this phenomenon.
Walk into any gym and I'm sure you will see someone doing a squat exercise - bodyweight, with a barbell, swissball, dumbbells - you will see many variations.
Cous cous is a great versatile pasta that can be used as a side dish or made up into a nice healthy salad. The recipe below is one that I make quite regularly. I have it as a lunch dish by adding a small tin of flavoured salmon or tuna, take it as a side dish to a BBQ, or serve at home for dinner as a side to grilled chicken, fish or steak.