If you were to go on a diet on today, what would be the one thing you’d fear to give up most? Your few pints? Your tea & hobnobs? Or your cheeky weekend take away? Whatever it is. Any decent nutrition program worth it’s while, should allow for it. The truth is, if you’re trying […]
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A massive part of being a personal trainer is looking at and assessing your client’s food diary. Seen hundreds, if not thousands over the years. And to be honest, I can probably count on one had the amount of people who are consuming a “decent” amount of protein on a daily basis. The vast vast […]
When I’m on a application call with lad looking to join BPD I’ll casually enquire as to what his food habits are like. Probably the most common answer I get is “I’ve an awful sweet tooth”. But lets face it mate, who doesn’t? The human organism is genetically designed to enjoy “sweet stuff” When we […]
Was chatting to a guy on an application call last Sat. He had been going to the gym in Swords regularly over the last year or so but he’d hit a a bit of a plateau lately. The weight hasn’t dropped in the last while and since Christmas it’s started to creep back up again. […]
Chatting with some of the lads in one of the Bulletproof Dad sessions earlier in the week. One of the dads was saying his young lad came home from school the other day and told him that he wanted to be a formula one driver when he grows up. So we were giving him stick […]
One of the bulletproof dad lads mentioned the other day how he was doing guitar lessons at the moment. When he mentioned it, a few of the lads perked up and a conversation kicked off. Turns out most of us there (in the gym in Swords) all have or had plans at some stage to […]
This was part of the Mick O’Dwyer’s story about one of the greatest players to ever grace a GAA pitch. Eoin “the bomber” Liston Here’s his exact description: “After ’77, we found a man by the name of “The Bomber” Liston. He was a nice, soft, pudgy little fella when I got him. He was […]
Consider yourself pre-warned because Below is an article which could save you wasting a lot of money over the next 12 months. It’s from the Independent.ie and it outlines all the “fashionable foodie” foods for the year coming. Aka the so called trendy super-foods. You know the stuff that’s reasonably healthy but is way over-rated […]
If you’ve been going hard at it in the last week with exercising Just make sure that you’re measuring the correct areas. What I mean by this is, most lads store the bulk of their excess weight around the belly. And after a few weeks of being in better habits that can feel it starting […]
With Bulletproof dad well and truly back in action after the little Christmas break I was chatting to one of my BPD lads on Wed. He was back home in Cork over the holidays. So he bumped into some family he hadn’t seen for a while. And they all greeted him the same: “What the […]