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Nutty Granola
Making your own granola ensures you control the amount of sugar in your bowl of healthy cereal.
Many supermarket granola cereals contain large amounts of sugars and other unhealthy fillers to ensure maximum profit with sub-standard ingredients. Follow this recipe and enjoy a bowl of natural healthy nourishing granola.
Semaglutide – the fat loss wonder drug!
Could this be the end of fad diets and obsessive calorie-counting? The ‘magic’ comes in the shape of a new injectable weight-loss drug containing the active ingredient, semaglutide. Referred to in the press as a ‘game changer’, it’s been used with evidence of weight loss by celebrities, such as billionaire Elon Musk, and been the talk of Hollywood.
Protein-packed Thai Vegetable Curry
Mixing grains, legumes and pulses is a great way for vegetarian athletes to acquire all the essential amino acids that the body needs.
This recipe includes a great mix of all the essential amino acids, plus a rainbow of vegetables to provide an abundance of vitamins, minerals and fibre.
Your Relationship With Fat
Is what’s healthy in our minds also healthy in body’s? Are you confused about the different types of fats? Should I eat low fat? Are we born with an amount of fat cells that never changes and is BMI the best indicator of a healthy weight or is there a better alternative?
World Indoor Rowing Sprints
Results available
Smokey Butter Beans
Smokey Butter Beans
These delicious beans are so simple and so versatile – great on toast for breakfast, served alongside barbecued meats, spooned over a jacket potato, or my favourite, served on a bed of roasted celeriac. Creamy texture from the beans, a bit of crunch from the vegetables – a great protein-rich meal.
Setting Realistic Goals
Setting goals are linked with higher motivation, self-confidence, self-esteem and autonomy. This article will help you understand the benefits of setting realistic goals that are SMART and helps us to achieve something higher in our lives.
Crash-B Sprints World Indoor Rowing Champs 2023
Results available
National Junior Indoor Rowing Champs 2023
London, Leeds and Bull Pen results available
World Rowing Indoor Championships 2023
RESULTS
EUROPEAN ROWING INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023
RESULTS
Turmeric Roasted Cauliflower, Sprout and Butterbean Salad
Eating foods that are in season helps to reduce food miles and increase nutrient intake. Tahini is made from sesame seeds, which are rich in calcium and magnesium and make a delicious creamy dressing.
Irish Indoor Rowing Champs
RESULTS
Winter Workouts
Winter workouts improve fitness, mood and your immune system, particularly during the darker and colder winter months where a focus on mental wellbeing in just as important as the physical benefits.
Row’d Royalty 2023
Results
Wholesome Christmas Tree Brownies
How festive are these Christmas tree brownies? Soft and gooey, chocolatey, fragrant, decadent, moreish, pretty and healthy! Plant-based, gluten-free, sugar-free, protein rich, packed full of goodness and flavour.
Courtesy of Cinnamon & Bluebells.
Roasted Salmon and Vegetable Traybake
A simple recipe, yet very nutritious – an abundance of vegetables that your gut will love, topped with Omega-3 rich salmon for your brain.
Choose any vegetable that you like – most will taste great cooked this way.
Cod, Prawn and Coconut Curry
A protein packed healthy delicious meal which is simple to make and can be used with any meaty fish of your choice.
A meal which will provide all of your essential amino-acids and micronutrients to help you feel full and speed up your recovery for your next workout.
Exercise Your Brain and Boost Your Career
As a personal trainer, I often hear people say how hard it is to train regularly. Of course, I understand the hurdles of life and commitments and responsibilities of a working life. Exercise can easily slip off the agenda.
But if I told you exercise increases brain power and boosts your intelligence and enhances other areas of your life including your career, would you make time to fit in daily exercise.
Read on for some interesting research into the area. It may change the way you think!
Doping in Sport
Modern sport is plagued by suspicions that many top athletes are cheating with performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) such as anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, erythropoietin (EPO), beta blockers, stimulants and diuretics to name just a few. The risks associated vary with each drug. All dangerous (especially with overuse) and all morally wrong, not to mention the long-term health effects of doping. So what are the side effects and why are amateur athletes turning to PEDs.
British Rowing Indoor Championships 2022
*UPDATE – Event cancelled
Dorset Indoor Rowing Champs
Virtual racing 4th-6th November 2022.
Australian Indoor Rowing Champs 2022
Virtual racing 29th October 2022.
Row Series XII
Online indoor rowing comp set over 4 weeks.