German Volume Training: The best training regime for increasing muscle size

21.02.2018

German Volume Training: The best training regime for increasing muscle size

Personal trainer Scott Laidler suggests a German Volume Training (GVT) regime that will help to supersize your muscles I’m often asked which training regime I would recommend for gaining muscle mass. Unequivocally, the answer is always German Volume Training (or GVT). For me, it’s the most effective training program out there for gaining serious muscle mass and breaking through personal…

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21.02.2018

The five best cardio exercises to keep your engine ticking over

Why do cardio? Cardio exercise is one of what I would call the three main tenets of training, alongside resistance and mobility. Without any of these, your body will naturally atrophy, decreasing in efficiency. Like resistance and mobility training, cardio offers a range of benefits and should be built into your every week. Briefly, here’s how it helps…

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21.02.2018

Future proof your body: 17 things you need to do now to be healthy in later life

They say that 40 is the new 30 – and for many aspects of life, that may well be true. Socially, the stuff we once did in our third decade is now being happily deferred to our fourth, and our fourth to our fifth. Marriage, children, staying in and being sensible – it’s all happening later than ever before. But…

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21.02.2018

How exercise can help you stop smoking

Over my ten year career in the fitness industry I have seen many people utilise the discipline of exercise to combat the habit of smoking. Normally, exercise is used in conjunction with something else – maybe you’ve decided to go ‘cold turkey’, try hypnotherapy, CBT, the Allen Carr method, etc. All will be trialed across the country, as smokers try…

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