10 good fat loss tips!

October 4th, 2010 • Build Muscle, Eating Healthy, Life Improvements, Recovery Series, Weight Loss Series
Tags: acid, Angela Dowden, Arm-Bar Hotness, Calories, Cardiovascular, Fat, Fatigue, Food, Green, Hotness, Life skills, lifestyle, Loss, Matt Roberts, meals, Memory, Nutrients, pasta, Protein, Rice, size, skip, strength conditioning, Tea, weight

Arm-Bar is back after a break. We are sorry to the readers of the blog. Arm-Bar is a blog run by professionals and we try to give you the best content about health, fitness and boxing – free. All content is backed with sources, links and research bodies. We just want to have a blog where we can post great articles .. some better than others that are all free and provide good relevant content. Read more »

4 simple ways to improve your day

July 28th, 2010 • Eating Healthy, Life Improvements, Weight Loss Series
Tags: Brain, Breakfast, Cardiovascular, Fatigue, Food, Life skills, Man, Memory, Men, Mind, motivation, Nutrients, positive, Protein, Time, tips

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Healthy Mind: Be the genuine article

July 8th, 2010 • Brain Series
Tags: Brain, Character, Confidence, Honesty, Humble, Life skills, Sincerity, Wisdom

“Authenticity is the key to influence – and therefore success in the workplace”, says corporate psychologist Ben Williams (benwilliams.co.uk) A must read. Check out the photo to understand! Read more »

Interview – Michael Darbyshire – Mind over matter

February 18th, 2010 • 1 comment Brain Series, Interviews, Weight Loss Series
Tags: Anxious, Focus, Interview, Jogging, Life skills, Man, Men, Mind, Negative, nervous, Strong, Training, Treadmill tips, Workout, Worry

Did you know that the CIA have been known to use mind focus tactics for their training schemes. An example you ask? Well, next time your lying in bed about to go to sleep, look around the room or try to focus on the light (now turned off), look at your light bulb for 5 seconds, really focus on it, think nothing but the bulb.. now close your eyes for 30 seconds or so and try to focus on that bulb and that image in your head – nothing else but that image. You will slowly see it disappear within the blackness of your inner eye – bring it back and try focusing in whilst still having your eyes closed. Keep doing this by opening for 5 seconds and continue to close and focus. Within a few weeks you will have some real raw focus skills and your mind will be stronger. Anyway.. to the interview..

We got to interview Michael Darbyshire – a fitness mind coach. Take a quick read and learn how you can change your perception of training through mind training. If you can conquer your mind whilst training you can switch off – training more than ever and without feeling or thinking tired. It’s like a legal and non-intoxicating stimulative. Read more »

3 WAYS TO BOOST YOUR BRAIN

December 8th, 2009 • Brain Series
Tags: Brain, Brains, Eggs, Endurance, Fatigue, Fish, Flaxseed, Goals, Isolation, Kiwis, Life skills, Omega-3, Protein, Workout

Everyone always asks about ways to keep your body in shape. Here’s three ways you can keep both your mind and body in top shape.

There’s now yet another reason to keep yourself in shape – you become smarter. The University of California (UC) conducted a research study that found people who had higher body mass had smaller brains. This included memory and planning areas of the brain.

I want to show three quick and simple ways to boost your brain, let’s face the music – if you spend 45 minutes on a treadmill four times a week, for the next 6 months – that is an average of 180mins a week which is 720mins a month which is 4320 mins half a year, which is 8640 mins of running a year. That is a 144 hours and about 6 days of running non-stop. The amount of calories you can burn, the amount of endorphins you can release is incredible. Being fit means thinking fit – I know that makes no sense, but here is a statement someone said to me at the gym: “If you look good, you feel good”. Read more »

3 WAYS TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF TO KEEP RUNNING

December 7th, 2009 • Running
Tags: Cardiovascular, Endurance, Goals, Jogging, Life skills, Reps, Run, Running, Treadmill tips

These days it’s so easy to loose yourself thinking about something. Did you know that eating food that you enjoy and have eaten before brings back those happy memories of that food? How about that sneaky chip muffin when you skipped your school lunch break to avoid school dinners?

Running is a great way to loose weight and amongst other things. We will leave the benefits of running within a different post for a different time. We want to focus on why people jump on a treadmill so eager to start running in a pool of their own sweat – only to stop and give up trying again for a long time. I think the commercials are to blame here, people think it is easy to start running a 45 minute treadmill session on level 9 and a gradient of 5% – well, it’s not. And here are some ways to make it easy for you and to motivate you to continue to run. Read more »