"Aren't You Bored?"

The friend, who has high blood pressure, high cholesterol, is massively overweight and has heart issues looked at my clients meal, which was a combination of meat, rice and vegetables, and asked, “But aren’t you bored?”

Strength Isn't a Luxury. It's a Necessity!

Proper nutrition and strength training aren’t something you do for a few months just to get a decent body for summer. It’s a necessary part of life. Like brushing your teeth or putting clothes on each day.

Compound VS Isolation

The people who say you can build an awesome physique by doing light weight, isolation movements and you don’t need heavy compounds who have no muscle? The internet is full of them. Come on, they have no muscle. What more proof do you need?.

Nutrition, Training, RantsAdam HayhowFebruary 4, 2022Recomp:HQrecomposition, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, food, metabolism, superfoods, isolation, compound

Flexible Dieting

…..if you take someone who eats like a person going hypo with low blood sugar in the lolly isle.

Nutrition, Training, RantsAdam HayhowDecember 13, 2021Recomp:HQrecomposition, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, food, metabolism, superfoods

10 Tips For Training Success

It goes a little beyond turning your pinky finger up when doing lateral raises.

Nutrition, Training, RantsAdam HayhowSeptember 2, 2021Recomp:HQrecomposition, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, food, metabolism, superfoods

The Red Pill Or The Blue Pill?

Which do you choose? Achieving nothing or achieving everything. The red pill or the blue pill?

Nutrition, Training, RantsAdam HayhowAugust 16, 2021Recomp:HQrecomposition, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, food, metabolism, superfoods

Whats Healthy?

Fish makes me violently ill and i'll spend a day sitting on the toilet or vomiting. Or both.

Nutrition, Training, RantsAdam HayhowMay 30, 2021Recomp:HQrecomposition, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, food, metabolism, superfoods

Burn Baby Burn

Want to know the most inefficient way of making your body use calories? Trying to burn them through activity and running yourself into the ground.

Nutrition, Training, RantsAdam HayhowJanuary 22, 2021Recomp:HQrecomposition, strength, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, food, metabolism, coffee, caffeine

Don't Listen To Bodybuilders?

Kind of like if you wanted to be rich and had access to a billionaire but didn’t want their advice because they were too rich.

RantsAdam HayhowOctober 9, 2019Recomp:HQadvice, bodybuilders, progress, muscle, listen, recomposition

Could You Make It Easier Please?

I could soften it up. I could make it as vague as possible. But I’d prefer to do my job correctly and provide the client everything they need.

RantsAdam HayhowAugust 26, 2019Recomp:HQeasy, progress, recomposition, lazy, hard, bodybuilding, muscle, fat loss

You Wont Find The Answer In A Needle

Don't give me any BS you're too small to lift those kinds of weights. Im not genetically gifted. I’m just stubborn as fuck.

It's All About Balance

“Why would I go to a restaurant that doesn’t serve steak?”

RantsAdam HayhowSeptember 23, 2017Recomp:HQrecomposition, strength, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, personal trainer, balance

I Hate This Industry

After sitting quietly for a while and letting my temperature drop back to normal, I came to the conclusion: as much as I love training, I hate this industry.

RantsAdam HayhowNovember 16, 2016Recomp:HQrecomposition, strength, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, compete, hate, fitness industry

What are you doing?

Before you start on your meaningless, empty, cliched justification of why you think walking up stairs means so much to you and is your gauge of physical prowess, let me butt in and say “bullshit!”

You're fat. Why Are You A Personal Trainer?

Trainers can’t be too good and strict I suppose. How is the average person supposed to deal with that? The strict living trainer just doesn’t understand the pressures of not eating bad food.

You're Probably The Problem. I was.

“Why can’t I lose weight? Why can’t I change my body?”

Why? Because you eat like shit and train even worse. That’s why.

RantsAdam HayhowNovember 4, 2015Recomp:HQrecomposition, strength, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, problem

I Don't Compete, And Neither Should You

When did competing become something so trivial? So blasé. Just something you do. You’ve been training for a few months, “you look sick bro…. you should compete!”

RantsAdam HayhowOctober 17, 2015Recomp:HQrecomposition, strength, progress, muscle, aesthetics, body, compete