Tristan Crickett

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 From reading this book, I realised some of my nutrition habits were slightly outdated, and so I’ve written up my findings in these two new posts.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.

I’ve had a few comments from the author of The Intelligent Workout on my fitness blog, the guy always posts some good comments, so I’ve decided to review his site. The site review will look it at the site both from a content point of view, but also from the point of view of search engine optimisation and potential for revenue generation.

My first impression of the site is that the theme he has chosen (or had designed) is very dark. This is clearly not a problem for search engines, but for readers of the site, it can be problematic. I don’t have a problem with black sites per se, but if the contrast between the writing (content) and the background colours is not great enough (as is the case with this site), I find it had to read. Incidentally, I find I have to read this site without the stylesheets - I must be getting old!

The content of the site is excellent. I’ve only really read the most recent few posts, but they have been very good. Well put together articles that provide a lot of value to the reader. My only slight comment would be that there is so much good content in “The Four Health Hoaxes That Are Destroying Society and How to Stop Them” that it could have been spread over four different posts, thus providing more pages to the search engines, and making it slightly easier for a reader to get a “quick fix” of content, and make them come back for each subsequent “hoax”, until they had completed the series of articles.

As the blog is using WordPress, it’s difficult to say too much that is wrong with it from an SEO point of view, though I do have some comments:

Firstly, the author hasn’t activated permalinks, this is where WordPress uses URL re-writing to convert a query string into a static URL, which helps search engine robots to crawl and subsequently rank the pages within their SERPS. The reason you want this is to ensure you get more valuable keywords into the URL for each post.

Secondly, the title tags on each page contain far too many keywords, to the point where it looks a little bit like keyword spam. It isn’t, it’s merely WordPress outputting the blog title, category and then post title in the title tag. It would be better for SEO purposes to just output the title of the post in the title of the page.

I believe that if these two issues were corrected, the site would see a boost in the search engines. It will depend on a few other factors whether this site becomes really successful in the search engines, but despite off-site factors, it’s still worthwhile making the best use of on-site factors before worrying too much about off-site factors.

A bunch of my posts and articles have been featured in the Athletic Alley Blog Carnival, please visit the site and read through the carnival for some great articles about health and fitness.

On Find Financial Freedom, John has posted a useful article about reducing your monthly outgoings by going down the gym, which gives you a few extra frugal reasons to get down the gym first thing besides improving your fitness and physique.

I’ve added a new article to my blog, Find Financial Freedom. The article is all about ways to earn extra money in your spare time, through either a part time job or starting up a part-time business.

Please read and feel free to leave a comment about the article, though nothing too rude!

I’ve been building a website for my ex-wife, some might say it’s a bit strange but thankfully we have a good relationship.

What I’ve done for her is simply install a WordPress installation onto her domain name, customise the theme slightly and help her by picking out the right pages to go on the site.

In addition, we’ve uploaded mp3’s to the site, as she is a female voiceover artist, which contain her demos so that any prospective producer will be able to listen to her and get an idea of what she sounds like. This can be very useful in her marketing efforts as she often picks up new clients that come across her via her website.

I’ve just written a new article on weight loss on bodyandfitnessblog.com. The article is my own thoughts on how to lose weight quickly, using a mixture of my own experiences of losing weight and getting back into shape again, and well known advice that has been studied and researched over many years.

The article is entitled How Can I Lose Weight Quickly, please feel free to have a read and leave a comment. I plan to write other similar articles about weight loss, weight gain (for aspiring body builders) and generic getting fitter articles on my blog in the future.

I’ve launched a new niche website today, clearly it’s not the best looking website and the content could be better, but for what I’m trying to achieve, it’s just the job.

The site is all about cheap fat burning pills and ways to lose weight quickly. I intend to target the traffic to a very narrow niche of visitors looking for fat burning pills and other related keywords, in the hope then of selling advertising or putting affiliate links on the site as a way of generating revenue.

It probably won’t make me much money each month, but given it’s taken a few hours to build - literally - if it can make me £100 a month, every month, I’ll be happy as a pig in sh*t.