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Competition Blog Week 2 - Amy Wiffen By Amy Wiffen   Week 2 So the Northeast championships is 18 weeks today, and this has been a good week! I've been really strict with my diet, even when stress and cravings should have sent me straight to the biscuit tin, and my training has been spot on. I thought I would focus on training in this week's blog,

Competition Blog Week 3: Too Much Too Soon? Competition Blog Week 3: Too Much Too Fast? By Ben Mallinson   Week 3: Ok so some interesting developments this week, as I said last week I made a few changes to my diet for week 3 (adding an extra 2 whole eggs and 1 scoop of Oat Gain daily) taking my total calories up to 3550, from 3200.

Competition Blog Week 1   By Amy Wiffen Week 1 This is my Competition Blog Week 1 starting at 1 day under 19 weeks out from my next competition: The UKBFF Bikini Fitness North East Championships - although I started my actual prep at 21 weeks. I've never written a blog before, self-promotion has never really been my thing, but I get asked a hell of

Competition Blog Week 2: A Good Start Competition Blog Week 2: A Good Start By Ben Mallinson   Week 2: As I'm writing this it's hard to explain in words how I'm feeling at the moment, it's a cement mixer of feelings/emotions, all positive I should add, that I havn't really experienced before. All factors of my training/diet/recovery seem to be at an all time best, the

Heavy Metal Gym Playlist I don't know about the majority of people out there but in my opinion the music that commercial Gym's will pump around the weights room just doesn't inspire 1 Rep Maximums or the intensity required to carve and sculpt an Adonis like physique. If you're in agreement then slap these tunes on your ipod/mp3 player and watch the gains

Competition Blog Week 1 By Ben Mallinson Introduction: This is the start of my 21week preparations for the UKBFF North East Bodybuilding Championships which will be held at Leeds Town Hall on sep 15th 2013: http://2013.ukbffnorth-eastchamps.co.uk/ Over the next 21 weeks I'l be providing coverage of my preperations for my first competition, hopefully to give  some insight to others thinking about doing a bodybuilding competition aswell

Protein Flapjack Recipe By Ben Mallinson This is a recipe For Protein Flapjack that I've altered and adapted over the last year depending on my training goals, the following recioe would be ideally suited to somebody looking for a healthy snack to promote lean gains. The Links to products used are at tyhe bottom of the Ingredients list :) Ingredients Required 300g Porridge Oats 8 Egg Whites 30g

BSN Nitrix (with CEM3) Review By Ben Mallinson   First Impressions If I'm honest Ive always been a fan of BSN's Branding and Advertising. BSN NO-XPLODE was the first Bodybuilding supplement I ever purchased back in 2005 when it was starting it's many susccessive years as "Product of the year" And had Ronnie Colema (then Mr Olympia) as their sponsored athlete. Together with CELL MASS and

Micellar Casein Ultra Peptide 2.0 is a sustained release protein supplement that has been taken to the next level, this sustained-release micellar casein is engineered for lean tissue gain, over 50% of the protein in ultra peptide is from micellar casein, which can be used as a meal replacement at any time of the day, one thing that caught my eye was the

Pre Workout Shake- Ingredients 25-40 gram of Whey Protein 5 gram of Essential Amino Acids 1.1-1.5 gram of Instant Oats per kilo of body weight 2 milligram of Caffeine 2 gram of Beta Alanine 2 gram of Creatine 2 gram of L-Arginine EAAs and Whey Protein As we all know protein is the building blocks of building muscle but if you want it to reach your muscles super-fast you need to