How to come back after a layoff
Here is broadly how I’d approach training if I was getting back into it after a prolonged absence: * First, I would focus on General Physical Preparation (GPP) to reclaim a solid baseline of fitness and toughness (mental and physical) after weeks, months, or even years of inactivity, * I’d do that via twice weekly […]
Pretty much everything I have to say about diet
Diet is not something I talk about often. Firstly and most importantly because I am not qualified to give definitive, specific diet advice (no personal trainer is unless they also happen to be a HCPC registered dietitian, irrespective of how many certificates they have paid for). And secondly because the entire topic bores me to […]
How to fix mental problems with training
Lately, I’ve become burned out on training. Worst I’ve felt in the seventeen years I’ve been at it, actually. Not physically. I’m healthy and uninjured (aside from the little aches and pains that are par for the course when you train hard, and don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise). Performance in the gym is […]
Barbell
How to Tell When Your Gym Doesn’t Want You to be Strong OR Safe! One little movement you can do to build “bulletproof shoulders” in just two minutes per workout A simple, low-stress tweak you can make to the training you are already doing to build heaps of strength, toughness, and character What everyone who […]
Silver Era Radio: Steve Reeves
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Yours Baldly serves up the bitterest of pills
The other day, Jess and I got to talking about the importance of accepting your limitations. Example: If you start training in your 30s, 40s, or beyond or if you return to training having taken the balance of your most productive years (i.e. your teens and twenties) off, there is going to be a hard […]
Some people just don’t want to be challenged in any way
Received a Parthian shot from a disappointed chap to tell me he was unsubscribing because, while the free bonus eBook new subscribers get was “interesting”, my methods were not for him given he is seeking a long term approach using age appropriate forms of exercise. Guessing he didn’t read the eBook all that closely. Because […]
Clients wanted
I am looking for online personal training clients. If that is potentially of interest to you, please email me (phil at philtyreman dot co dot uk) with the following: * What you’d like to achieve, and, * What, specifically, you are struggling with. * Any questions you have about what’s involved. I’ll then get back […]
Fitness lessons from prison
One of my biggest influences (perhaps THE biggest) is the late, great Gary Halbert. He was not an athlete or a bodybuilder or someone who has much of anything to do with the fitness industry (beyond writing a number of wildly successful fitness and supplement ads for various clients). Rather, he was a copywriter. Arguably […]
How to protect your family from deranged bladesmen on public transport
Many moons ago, a friendly policemanofficer (who turned up to assist my colleague and I with a troublesome scene, long after we’d calmed the situation and got to treating the patient) made the following remark which has gone on to inform my thinking in all sorts of ways: === “When seconds count, the police are […]