The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson – Review

You know that feeling when you read something that changes your life? This book gave me those feelings. As I sped through the pages nearly non-stop I found myself eager to trial out Mark Sisson‘s methods. [Which I have sense done in a Primal Blueprint case study]

Why I liked it

Now that opening paragraph is pretty strong. I should probably be getting paid just for writing it, but I genuinely feel that this book is a book that every single person should read. Sisson manages to put eloquently into words a lifestyle that would be beneficial to most people’s modern day lives.

The best part of this book is that it’s an entire way of living. It’s not just a diet, or a workout routine, or a stress-less guide, it’s a complete full blown method to living a fuller, healthier life.

Unfortunately, for most people, the jump into Sisson’s 10 rules for a Primal lifestlye would be too much of a change and would probably result in a backlash of binge eating and TV watching. [Read more...]

Eat Stop Eat Review

The Low Down

Eat Stop Eat is the work of Canadian nutritionist Brad Pilon. Brad has been working in nutrition since 2000 and in that time has become concerned with what is being given as diet advice.

Through his own and others research Brad has rediscovered the benefits of fasting. Not only in giving your body a break from digesting food, but also other benefits like increased hormone release.

You can read more about it on the Eat Stop Eat website.

My Experience

When I first stumbled across Eat Stop Eat on the Fitness Black Book site I was pretty skeptical. At the time I was just realising that the 6 meals a day diet was rubbish and was starting to eat larger servings but in less meals.

I had already come across fasting style diets when I read about the Warrior Diet by Ori Hofmekler. I had considered trying it out but was a little too scared because

it was so different from my then bodybuilding diet.

However, being that this was the second book on the matter of fasting I had come across I began to think that maybe there was something to it. So I went ahead and bought it, after all what’s $40 for a book right? [Read more...]

The Book Of Muscle by Ian King – Review

Normally I’m not a big fan of Men’s Health. A lot of the content contained within it’s pages is the fairly typical magazine dribble. Not to say that there isn’t the occasional interesting article or workout.

One thing they do fairly well, is get well known fitness experts to publish damn good books. The Book Of Muscle is one of those books, written by weight lifting expert Ian King (with the help of Lou Schuler).

I had borrowed this book from the library a few years before buying it. At the time I felt a little overwhelmed and also cautious as it’s workouts were completely different to what my teenage mind thought was correct. Of course then I also had to return the book, meaning that I no longer had the workouts anyway. [Read more...]