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Touch Base Magazine
Aug/Sep 11
Sleep and Survival
I decided to write an article on how to address sleep issues, after finding it increasingly common with the patients and clients we work with at MK Lifefit. Sadly it seems to be a major and ever growing problem in todays technology obsessed world...
Touch Base Magazine
Jun/Jul 11
Chemical Bombardment
In just one square inch of skin, there are 650 sweat glands, 234 feet of nerves, 65 hair follicles, 57 feet of capillaries, 1,250 pain receptors, 19,000 sensory cells, 13 cold and 78 heat receptors...
Touch Base Magazine
Feb/Mar 11
Eating for Weight Loss
For the past 30 years, the most widely accepted belief is that to lose weight you must follow a low fat, calorie controlled diet. Built on these beliefs is an industry worth millions of pounds, with Weight Watchers, Slimming World and LighterLife diets leading the way...
Touch Base Magazine
Dec/Jan 11
Deficiency in Vitamin C
But what else does vitamin C do and why do we become deficient? Humans lost the ability to produce vitamin C (ascorbic acid) hundreds of thousands of years ago, when the enzyme needed to convert glucose into vitamin C became redundant...
Touch Base Magazine
Oct/Nov 10
Deficiency in Magnesium
Deficiency in magnesium is now at epidemic levels due to mineral depletion in our soils. This was recognised as a major problem as far back as 1936 with government reports, warning of dangerous diet deficiencies and drastic action needed...
Touch Base Magazine
Aug/Sep 10
Time to Shine
Having done literally hundreds of nutritional consultations, the common themes I see in people range from tiredness, stubborn excess weight and aching joints to more serious conditions such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes...
Touch Base Magazine
Jun/Jul 10
MK Lifefit Clinic
MK Personal Training Academy would like to introduce readers to our wide range of health and fitness services throughout the Lifefit Clinic...
Touch Base Magazine
Apr/May 10
Just how Acidic Are You?
Having focussed over the last three issues on the key aspects to anti ageing, I now turn your attention to another hugely important piece of the health jigsaw, the PH balance...
Touch Base Magazine
Feb/Mar 10
Three Phase Plan - Part 3
The third and final part of our anti ageing plan is focused on our most precious of all possessions, the brain. It is the most active organ in the body and just as muscle will waste if not used and nourished well, so will brain function fail if not nourished adequately and regularly...
Touch Base Magazine
Dec/Jan 10
Three Phase Plan - Part 2
Following on from my first article, which focused on the importance of nutrition in the aging process, I now turn attention to the ten clinically proven bio markers of ageing and how we have the power to influence each one...
Touch Base Magazine
Oct/Nov 09
Three Phase Plan - Part 1
I have recently returned from a month long trip to the USA and Canada where I was very fortunate to study on a one to one basis with world renowned antiaging and nutrition expert Dr Michael Colgan...
Touch Base Magazine
Aug/Sep 09
Get from Fat to Flat
The choice really is yours. Guys it is time to give up on the idea that a beer belly and man boobs are the norm and that the toned gym body is for those “metrosexual” types…
Men's Fittness
August 2009
Ask The Experts
What's the most outrageous excuse for missing a training session?
Jealous guy... One female client once called me to say that she wouldn't be able to attend our appointment because her boyfriend had her under surveillance. Apparently, he was trying to prove that we were having an affair. We weren't, for the record!
Touch Base Magazine
Jun/Jul 09
Get Motivated
Healthy eating is the key - we know that the food we eat can have a huge impact on how we feel, be energized, alert and focused or lazy, tired and unable to concentrate...
Fitpro Network
June/July 2009
Back Strengthening Programme
Matt Kendrick’s guide to training a client with back weakness or stability issues...
Touch Base Magazine
Apr/May 09
Pilates
"I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem, a chronic back and a pinched nerve, it's completely solved all of them. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller" - Jennifer Aniston...
Men's Fittness
March 2009
Ask The Experts
What is the best move to blitz my biceps?
Drop sets squeeze more reps from tired muscles. Don't lower the weight after each set - change the grip, moving from weakest to strongest movement. Using a dumb-bell, do eight to ten reverse curls, curls to failure, then hammer curls to failure. Rest for two minutes. Do three sets.
Touch Base Magazine
Feb/Mar 09
It is absolutely insane not to be a health nut
Such a true statement. You see without good health, nothing else really matters. Family, children and all possessions that we work so hard for are lost without health...
Touch Base Magazine
Dec 08 / Jan 09
Health and Fitness
Firstly, let me begin by saying how excited I am to be writing for the Touch-Base team. Over the coming issues I would like to reach out to as many of you as possible with health, fitness and lifestyle advice...
Select Living
November 2008
Launch Party for LifeFit
Check out what the Birmingham Post had to say about the launch of LifeFit...
Health Club Management
Kettlebell
I'm a fan of, and use, all types of free weight equipment, but my favourite free weight is probably the Kettlebell...
