I decided a "master post" is where I dump EVERY link I can find addressing a particular source of nonsense, quackery, pseudoscience or scammery. In this case, "detoxing".
Here it comes, hold on to your hats.
First though, you may well ask "if all these things are scams, how do they get away with selling them?" well you may be sorry that you asked....
Featured Blog Content:
Gabrielle Maston: Orthorexia Is Real
Gabrielle Maston: Orthorexia Is Real:
This topic has been a long time coming - orthorexia. Haven’t heard of it before?
Well I will inform you, it’s a form of an eating disorder where someone has an extreme or excessive preoccupation with avoiding what is perceived...
Ugh this whole raw milk fiasco. Wow.
In the center of the drinks fridge,
but not to be drunk?
No pun intended, but this is hard for me to process. Possibly due to my background in the security industry, my brain
likes to just write people off as bad, scumbags, or whatever, because that's the simplest explanation...
Christmas Holiday Dieter's Survival Guide
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Post by Dave Hargreaves Personal Training...
Mainstream news needs to stop publicising crap like "bulletproof coffee"
Shoutouts to Mike Howard for
this more honest version of
the book cover.
And by "crap" what I mean is "blatant, pro-eating disorder scams based on nonsense".
So... yesterday one of the mainstream news websites posted an article on "bulletproof coffee", and in the ensuing...
Are you really lacking in discipline, or just enthusiasm?
Here's a little fitsporation for you. I made it as narcissistic and obnoxious as possible.
"Discipline",
right? Ooh I'm so disciplined. I turn up every day to do something I
really enjoy, in order to achieve something that I'm going to be happy
about. If only everyone...
The Strategic Advantage Of Flexible Dieting
How a human body will respond to effective training and appropriate
nutrition is pretty easy to predict, most of the time.
You wanna know
what’s tricky though?
Brains. Brains are tricky. Our minds are what make us truly unique
individuals, all seeing the world a little differently to each other.
All with a unique perspective, unique experiences...
1200 Calories. Zero Results
No.
Alright let's cut to it.
Last week I promised I'd write an article for all the people who are dieting on 1200 calories a day, minus however many they burn off doing "cardio" exercise... but STILL aren't seeing any progress.
Why not? What gives? And why was "cardio"...
If your flour comes from a windmill is it still an unhealthy processed food?
How cool are windmills though?
Apparently the history of windmills goes all the way back to sometime around AD 650 or so. They use 'em to mill grain, if you didn't know. Grind grain up between massive stones to make flour, which you could then make bread out of.
I've been...
Dieting: From One Extreme To Another
I had a bit of an idea the other day about comparing what is
“recommended” vs what is “good enough to get the job done” in terms of
approaches and adherence to dieting. What is recommended varies wildly
from one source to another.
What probably should be recommended is something...
When fkn idiots tell you "there is no reason to consume carbohydrates"...
Let me tell you something else.
This "low carb high fat" nonsense is all over the news down here again. People who should know better, talking complete bollocks about there being "no
requirement" or "no need" to consume carbohydrates, or that they are
"not essential" or...
Gabrielle Maston: I Quit Sugar – Book Review
Gabrielle Maston: I Quit Sugar – Book Review:
One fine sun shining morning a few weeks ago a client of mine, who works in the publishing business handed
me over the new book by Sarah Wilson titled ‘I quit sugar’. My initial
reaction was: ‘what right does a popular journalist/editor have to write
about nutrition and diets? Clearly under qualified...
Cereal vs confectionary? Really?
Click for the readable (larger) version.
Suffice to say they elected not to approve my comment.
I'm going to show you a comment I posted on an article last night, talking about breakfast cereals.
Now, we're not talking the sort of cereals you might be thinking about here,...
If It Fits Your Maths
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Post by Dave Hargreaves Personal Training...
Spinach. Is it even all that healthy, really?
Forgive the blatant clickbait headline. Of course it is fucking healthy, don't be ridiculous. Got your attention though, didn't I? Probably came in here all expecting to read something that would piss you off, right?
Well, read on it could still happen.
Everyone else? Stay...
Precision Style Side Lateral Raises
OK these videos aren't all that great because I just decided to film them on the spur of the moment by leaning my phone against a nearby object and hoping for the best.
Disregard the 40kg dumbbell press, we're going to talk about the side lateral raises that come after.
In my program, side lateral raises are what I consider a PRECISION movement....
Let me tell you something. Sometimes I get frustrated.
I am not here to tell people whatever lies that they want to hear and charge a fee for it. I'm not even here to tell people the bad news they expect to hear. To confirm their fears or whatever.
A lot of people want that, subconsciously I guess. That sort of "oh, that's what I was afraid of... I can't do that because I'm not good enough" sort of thing....
Do you usually make a habit of taking advice from idiots?
A show of hands, please. How many people reading this are in the habit of taking advice from idiots?
Random idiots who don't know a thing about you, telling you their opinion on something that is none of their concern. Or known idiots, for that matter. The sort who've got to put their 2 cents in on everything because they know it all... when if it...
Why a lot of you are wasting your time and energy with exercise.
Favourite gym selfie from a while back.
It'd probably be real easy to post up a photo of one of my clients... or... no, not even one of my clients. It'd probably be real easy to post up a photo of some pro fitness model I never met before, and tell people "one session a...
You cannot expect a specific result from doing random shit.
Serious talk here.
Adopting certain
habits because they're "healthier" is great. Excellent idea. So long as
they actually are "healthier" and you don't start to stress out over any unrealistic levels of adherence, I'm all for it. However...
Body type & condition...
Blog redesign and new FREE pre-program launch
The redesign is almost complete, and if I do say so myself I am pretty chuffed with it.
It was kind of a mess before, and there's actually a hell of a lot of great content (again, if I do say so myself) here so I kind of felt it deserved better.
It is interesting because this is usually more of a spontaneous blog than the blog on my official business...
Comfort foods, emotional eating, guilty pleasures... let's straighten this out once and for all.
What is your number one "guilty pleasure" as far as foods goes? That one indulgence you struggle to resist once in a while, a little too often in fact, that is holding you back from achieving your goals in terms of weight loss or body conditioning?
How would you like to overcome that problem, RIGHT NOW?
That's not a rhetorical question. Before you...
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