Friday 9 March 2007

Going Travelling

Hey Guys,

I am going travelling for the next 2 months with my fiancee', thought I would take a bit of time off to see the world before I settle down, get married, have a family the usually stuff that happens when you decide to settle down. So I won't be able to keep in contact with you all.

Its going to be a challenge to keep on top of my daily routine and making sure that I am taking in the right foods and exercising well. I have come across a really neat way to to this while travelling though, you can take a look at it here. Travel Training

Why can't you keep in touch? I hear you ask, well my pedigree chums, I am cutting myself away from anything and everything well apart from my workouts of course. It's going to be hard but I am sure I will get used to it.

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it, its probably the biggest thing I have ever done, I just can't wait. First we are starting out travelling through Europe, then its off to Australia, then to Asia, then africa, and we finish off in America and then back home to the UK. We have worked it out it should take us 2 months with stops in a few countries on each continent as well.

Keep up your training and diets and I will speak with you soon. Good luck to you all in getting what you want.

Wes

Monday 5 March 2007

Nutrition - Dietary Fat

Don’t forget the fat when you are working at building your muscle mass. I mean dietary fat – which help your hormone production. This is what makes you grow and become strong. Low fat diets actually won’t make you build those muscles. And contrary to what people think, eating fat won’t make you fat. There are some specific muscle building diets that insist that you only eat fat. And it works. The overweight people are like that because they get a diet that is high in carbs – not fats. A low fat diet makes your body store the fat because it doesn’t know when the next quota will arrive. Also, your testosterone levels dip with a low fat diet. That is not what you want when you want to gain muscle. There is a relationship between dietary fat and testosterone production. The more the fat, the more the testosterone levels. So a decrease in fat is not going to help at all. But beware – don’t load up on saturated fats - these will only give you diseases and heart problems. Just focus on the essential fatty acids. These help with various things including prevention of muscle breakdowns. They help in increasing your good cholesterol levels too.