How to Take Over the World one Dieter at a Time
We are living in an age without precedence; the age of the non-expert. Just watch the news. Never before throughout history has there been such an opportunity for people to position themselves to give advice on important topics without having any...
The Lean Gains Game
Recently I had a break from training owing to a minor operation I needed on an old injury from my rugby days. With what has been a high workload with Storm I had been chained to my desk and I had more or less become the shape of it. The challenge I wanted to put on...
Take on a Challenge and Change Your Perspective
Recently I did a charity event for the movember foundation. This year it was supporting awareness for mens mental health. For every pound I raised, I’d pull the big sled loaded with my bodyweight (90kg) a length of the gym (20m). I knew it would be a tough challenge,...
Why Unilateral Training May Be Your Missing Link
Why on earth would you lift less on a unilateral exercise when you could lift more on a bilateral exercise?! Well, there’s a few reasons… But first, what does unilateral even mean? We’re talking about single limb movement patterns like walking lunges, single arm...
How Often Should You Perform Drop-Sets
You may well have had this conversation in the gym before, it goes a little something like this: You “excuse me, do you have many sets left on the bench?” Gym Member “just 4 sets, but I’m doing quadruple drop sets on incline press and dumbbell fly’s and I’ll need to...
The ACTUAL Effects of overfeeding this Christmas
What damage can you REALLY do to your progress this Christmas? I have spoken to a lot of people recently who have a DEEP FEAR about the upcoming Christmas period and it’s potential to de rail all your progress. So let’s first agree what we mean by “the Christmas...
Strong To The Core
You wouldn't build a house on a weak foundation, right? Simply put, if you've got a weak core (foundations), your house (body) isn’t going to last the winter… When it comes to building a strong core, this will help you gauge where you are in terms of progression from...
The Alkaline Diet – A Closer Look
Every cell in our body operates within an optimal PH range, and those PH ranges differ between different cells. The NET PH of our body however, is pretty tightly regulated within a healthy range. In the case of somebody eating a diet which provides an acid inducing...
Activity Trackers – Do They Work?
If you want to get in shape; keeping track of your activity is definitely a good idea. Whilst energy balance or energy in vs energy burned is not the ONLY factor in successful change, calories in vs calories out is sort of the master regulator for all body composition...
Can’t Keep Up Part 3 – Simplifying Your Lifestyle
So, lets recap. The internet is run by a chimpanzee, training doesn't have to be complex and your nutrition can be managed in a few simple steps. To put the icing on the cake, in this post we’re going to look at how you can simplify your lifestyle to allow your...
Should You Eat Breakfast When Trying To Lose Weight?
Here's a guide to help you decide if breakfast is going to be an important factor in reaching your goals: Eating for fat loss: Losing body fat requires that the total volume of energy you eat and drink is less than the total volume of energy used in both exercise and...
How To Hack Your Hormones For Lean Muscle Gains
A lot of the women who train at Storm, after they have reached their body fat goals, want to increase their muscle mass and strength. You simply can’t separate strength training and the effects it has on our hormones. Here’s how to spot a session that will get your...
Forget the little Black Dress – Start Your Fight Camp
I’m going to let you in on a little secret here. At this time of year personal trainers across the land are conjuring up schemes to make you seek the approval of other people at local restaurants, bars and nightclubs whilst wearing your “little black dress”. To be...
Supercharge Your Bench Press
For those of you who have lifted weights for a while, you’ll probably be familiar with the term ‘international bench press day’ aka…Mondays. And what a glorious day it is! You get under the bar and you’re fired up to shift some serious weight. But something is getting...
The Milk Myth
Are cows on the growth hormone? This week I have again been in earshot of people making false claims about food. The one thing that stops me from stopping people in the street and advising them how to safely perform brain surgery is that, well... I don't know the...
How To Bulletproof Yourself For The Ski Season
If you were to wind back time 5 years, you would have found me sat on a ski lift in a bright green jacket talking nonsense to 4 year old ski school kids. I took a year out before I went to university and it was one of the best decisions of my life because of two...
Eating Right For Muscle Growth
I would say most of the male clients that I meet will all mention wanting some muscle growth as a goal. It’s a great goal for anyone to have, even if your goal is fat loss, more muscle mass = more calories burned at rest. Unfortunately though building muscle can be a...
5 Tips From A Seminar With Christian Thibaudeau
5 awesome take away points from Christian Thibaudeau Last week myself (David) and Jack from #teamstorm had the pleasure of attending a 2 day seminar from Christian Thibaudeau hosted by Spartan Performance. Christian is a man who has trained a vast array of different...
Cant Keep Up Part 2- Simplifying Your Nutrition Updated
“This nutrition plan will revolutionise the way you eat, look, feel and perform!”… How often have you heard something like this on social media or in magazines? The idea of a ‘secret’ or ‘revolutionary’ formula is something I see increasingly and it's something I...
What Makes A Successful Triathlete
Rio 2016 is well and truly in full swing and to top it off the Brownlee brothers have only gone and smashed the olympic triathlon once again. Something Alastair said in an interview with BBC got me thinking about what makes a successful triathlete. "As soon as we got...
Simplify Your Training Pt.1
The internet is like you local city library…except none of the books are in order, there is a group of know-it-alls shouting at the top of their voice and the librarian is a chimpanzee. There is a lot of information out there, which is in itself a wonderful thing....
The Olympic Athletes that Changed the World
The Power Of the Olympics The Olympic games is once again on the horizon and I’m sure I can’t be the only person in disbelieve that it was indeed four years ago since Farrah and Ennis lit up London. The World has changed. since the London 2012 Olympic Games Britain...
Hunger- Understand hunger and how to manage it
Hunger If you have recently started trying to lose weight there is a good chance that hunger has become a factor and if it hasn't yet it soon will be. Whether you are adhering to a set of macro targets or just reducing your intake there may be times when you feel...
Hydration
You may question why we would bother writing an article on hydration, you just need to drink more water right? Well for as long as that works for you then yes! Where hydration principles like the ones we are about to cover become a factor is when your...
The Four Steps to Great Results
You’ve made the decision to make a big change in your life. Great work! You have taken the first step which is often the hardest and that is challenging your previous way of thought and taking the choice to start altering the way you do things. But there’s one...
Speed for Sport- Your Guide to Getting Faster
The off season in team sports is a super rare time of the year where you can get some speed coaching and actually get faster! Team sport conditioning has moved forward leaps and bounds in the last few years but there are still those old school coaches out there...
Beef Jerky Joints – 4 signs you’ve overdone it and what to do next.
It was a Friday evening at the end of a long week. I had trained fairly hard, walked almost everywhere with my bike being in the shop and worked a few really late nights. In turn this led to an increase in caffeine intake, a change in my mental state of mind from...
Lessons from significant weight loss
The result of significant weight loss is not just a drop in numbers on the scale, but also lessons learned outside of the training room. Having done this myself, I’m familiar with the struggles of changing your body. Believe me, I’ve been there and got the t-shirt…or...
Minimum time, maximum effort – 5 steps to an efficient fat loss workout
Ah that old chestnut… “I just don't have time to train”. As busy people we often find ourselves with little time to train and by that I mean train hard, not just a 20 minute walk on the treadmill…It’s easy to take your foot off the pedal when your work life is hectic,...
Fat: The Mysterious Macro
So we all know the importance of protein, some know the benefits of carbohydrates but what about fats? Fat is an area of nutrition that a lot of people overlook, but did you know: Your brain is 87% fat Your joints are almost 100% fat with a few proteins Every cell in...
7 tips for the Health Conscious Young Professional
By Jack Curtis Although its cold and it might not feel like it, the first day of summer is only 13 weeks away. Here are my 7 health tips for the busy young professional. Use to get ahead of the game when it comes to getting in shape for the summer season: Photo...
Your Goals Aren’t Helping You Succeed
Achieving your fitness and health goals is lot like climbing stairs. You take a step at a time until you reach the top. A lot of people get put off very early on whilst climbing the stairs. It is a long way up and they can see the hard work ahead. They will be put off...
Hiring a PT- The 4 Top Reasons People Are Put Off
Hiring a PT seems to make perfect sense. Why waste time and effort on something that you have no faith in when you can ensure all your efforts are rewarded with results? Well here are just some of the reasons people procrastinate before hiring a PT. 1) Just not...
Running Faster-6 Ways to Improve 10K Speed
When I meet endurance runners and hear their running goals of shaving a minute off their 10K times I want to SHAKE them and tell them they can do a lot better than that! Your progression and improvement can be WAY greater than you think. You just need to know where to...
The Great Muscle Mass Hoax
According to most health stores there are literally hundreds of products that will help you put on muscle mass. According to the scientific literature on the subject it’s a different matter I think there is definitely two and maybe four supplements that will help you...
The Great Muscle Gain Hoax-Part One
Part 1 Background- The problem with supplement testing . “What supplements can I take to put on muscle?” I often get asked this question and to be honest I place very little emphasis on supplements. In many ways this is due to the fact that often people can consider...
6 Simple Tips To Stay Focussed
Here are a few quick tips on how to get more out of training, stay focussed and feel good about doing it. 1. Get things in some kind of order. You may have heard: “A highly varied diet, rich in nutrients is the best way to get healthy, lean and fit.” “You need...
Healthy Muscle
If there’s one misconception that is commonly held by academics I meet It’s that muscle building is for the dumb, or that anyone who has developed lean muscle mass is in some way stupid or obsessive. Now I am not denying that there are some associated psychological...
What Matters Most?
What are the important factors to consider in order to get your training and nutrition absolutely on point? This is exactly what we wanted to know from the clients at Storm in this short video. In this one I get called a geek by a buddhist monk, I am beaten in a core...
Starting Afresh
If you don't subscribe to our youtube channel you may not be up to speed on whats going on at Storm. We thought you might like to hear what the people at Storm have to say about how its all going. If you feel like you have some added potential to unlock, we'd love to...
