Archive for March, 2009

I’ve been busy today adding some really useful content to my body building blog about body building nutrition.

I’d been having a week off from weight training, and in fact decent nutrition, taking the time to let my body re-cuperate after having gone fourteen straight weeks training and eating right.

During this time off, I’ve been reading a really good book about nutrition by Anita Bean, called Sports Nutrition. From reading this book, I realised some of my nutrition habits were slightly outdated, and so I’ve written up my findings in these two new posts.

The first post is all about your resting metabolic rate, which is vital to know if you are going to have any success in either weight loss or weight gain. If you have ever wondered - what is my resting metabolic rate - read the article to find out.

The second post is all about correct nutrition for gaining muscle, something that I am keen to understand as best as I can, so that my weight training yields good results. In my mind there’s nothing worse than working hard at your fitness or physique and only seeing marginal results, you have to have the patience of a saint to continue only seeing slow results.

For my money, you’re far better off maximising your results by ensuring you give yourself the best possible platform from which to work from, and in body building this means training hard and eating right. If you want to gain muscle fast by eating right, then this article will provide you with lots of useful information about how to calculate the amount of protein and carbohydrates are needed to stimulate fast muscle growth.

I’ve added a new article to my bodybuilding and fitness blog about body building techniques that work. I’ve been experimenting with the heavy duty techniques most notably pioneered by Mike Mentzer in the 1970’s during my workouts over the past few weeks and have noticed a sizeable increase in the muscles during this period.

My article is just aimed at giving out some useful advice to novice bodybuilders who want to know how to get results fast. I know there is no short cut with body building, but there’s no point in pursuing a strategy that is going to take longer than you may have patience for before seeing any results.

I’ve added a new article to Find Financial Freedom, my financial blog. This new article is a quick synopsis of the various measures that can be taken to protect one’s financial security.

The article is entitled how to protect your financial security and draws on my training and experience of working in the financial services industry for two years as a mortgage broker.

From what I can see there doesn’t seem to be a lot of free advice about what products can be bought to protect your financial security and the financial services watchdog, the Financial Services Authority don’t seem to want anyone to have an opinion on this unless they have been authorised and regulated by them.

I wrote a new article for my financial blog about how to achieve financial freedom the other day. The article is inspired by a book I’m currently reading “The Millionaire Next Door”, which is a breakdown of some of the myths about the wealthy.

What’s struck me most from reading this book is that from the research the authors have done into American millionaires, is that most of the millionaires surveyed live very down to earth, mundane lives. The people that actually live like how we perceive millionaires are usually not millionaires, but have high incomes which get spent on items that make them feel successful, such as flash cars, flash houses (and flash consumer durables for their houses), boats, expensive clothes, watches and exotic holidays.

This has changed my outlook on things greatly. I can also see how I used to think is clearly not condusive to obtaining financial security or freedom for that matter. I used to be obsessed with building up a successful business that would allow me to have a high income, but the only reason I wanted this was because I wanted to be able to spend lots of money. I can now see that I’m far better off building a successful business, but keeping my income relatively low, and using the excess profits to invest rather than worry about wanting a nice car or a nice house.

Maybe some people get this concept very early on in their lives, unfortunately for me it’s taken the best part of thirty years to figure this out, and not without the help of various books that I’ve read, including the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series amongst others. With a bit of luck, the next time we have a recession, I’ll be better placed to deal with it, having put into practice what I’ve learnt from my readings.