May 2012
4 posts
Got abs?
Pic above: Kevin Lisak
Although I’ve definitely been making gains in both muscle and strength over the last few months, one thing that’s still eluding me (because I’ve been concentrating on bulking and gaining muscle), are my abs. But we all want abs, right? Especially now that summer is on its way.
With that in mind, and as a little experiment, I’ve put myself on...
New training cycle from Hunt Fitness
As I mentioned in my previous post, I just started a new training cycle from huntfitness.com. Here it is in all it’s glory.
April 2012
9 posts
New Diet from Hunt Fitness
So Kyle Hunt from kylehuntfitness.com sent me a new diet and training schedule that I’ve been following for about a week now. It’s about 500 more calories than I was eating before (taking me up to just under 3,000) and 50 more grams of protein and it certainly feels like a step up from the training I was doing before as I’ve noticed that I’m aching much more! Here’s...
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Hi Stuart,
Been following the progress - very interesting.
I was interested in your opinions regarding the new silhouette most young men now aspire to achieve… The lanky, yet muscular, sport/waif shape. It seems this look is subtly permeating many people’s ideas of attractiveness. As an obviously analytical artist, would you say that this is affecting yourself in any way? I believe...
A crucial 100 days for London's Olympics →
Friday 13th 2012
Good morning legs and arms, where have you been...
March 2012
4 posts
BBC Horizon
Couple of interesting experiments here on fat and exercise (sorry, only for those of you in the UK).
Facebook
Nice message today on the Bodybuilding Facebook page:
“Hi Stuart . I have read about your project on Attitude (i think it was) and have been following what you have been doing regarding workout. And it has inspired my lots ,so i am doing your workout too ,though surly not as intense and religiously as you do it ,of couse you have to the pressure you put yourself into (but that is very...
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February 2012
9 posts
My Bodybuilding project in the Pink Paper Magazine
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You can read more by clicking here or on the image above.
WatchVideo Update number 3! More to come :)
January 2012
20 posts
Diet
So here’s the diet I’ve been following for the last 10 days that was put together for me by Kyle Hunt and that’s me above just about to tuck into my lunch. Yum!
Olympics over budget →
Sky Sports reveals the true cost of the London 2012 Games is between £12 and £24 billion
WatchVideo update #2!
HUNT-FITNESS
The pic above is Kyle Hunt from www.kylehuntfitness.com. I recently asked him to get involved with my project as I wasn’t happy with the training routine and diet that I’d set up for myself. He put a new one together for me (details below) that I just started so let’s see how it goes. It’s much tougher than the one I was doing before but I wouldn’t expect anything...
Get fit like a film star via The Guardian →
Three months? Okay.
WatchFirst video update! Will be doing one a week from now on so keep an eye out.
London’s Olympic Park Has Lost 75% in Value →
London’s Olympic Park had lost 75 percent of its value by the time of a valuation in 2009, raising doubts over plans to sell it for as much as 2 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) after this year’s summer games, the Sunday Times reported.
somedriftwood asked: Enjoying your blog. Fascinating stuff. A question though; do you think 'transformation' is possible in just one year? Or put another way, what level of change will you be happy with?
Muscle Talk
I came across a discussion forum yesterday on muscletalk.co.uk about my Bodybuilding project and I wanted to address some of the comments made on it.
The diet and training approach I’ve chosen came about after trying out and researching various other approaches over a period of 18 months or so. Because I only have a short time to prepare for my first competition in April of 2013, it...
Submitted by model Alex Annand
Check out Alex’s tumblr here.
SUBMIT!
If, like me, you’re hitting the gym hard over the coming months and want to post your progress alongside my own then you can do it by clicking the SUBMIT button to the left. Would be great to see what other people are up to!
Running to the Limits
A friend told me about this award-winning documentary that he saw a while back on Channel 4. In much the same way that I’m approaching my project, the filmmaker challenges himself to become an international marathon runner and documents the results. Check out the trailer here.
Petr Pavelec - personal trainer and current...
One of my trainers for the project is Petr Pavelec, a Central London based, qualified personal trainer and sports massage therapist. Petr has been a professional athlete since 1997 when he won a silver medal in the Czech National Championships in weightlifting. He then started coaching teenagers for the league and the national championships in weightlifting. On a competitive level, his sporting...
Diet and training
During my research for this project I stumbled upon a new method of training and nutrition called Leangains which utilises an intermittent fasting approach for fat loss, muscle gain and health. The two major tenets of Leangains are a fasting period of 16 hours (no calories are consumed during this period) and a focus on going heavy with the four large compound movements, squats, deadlift,...
