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I drink things that are accurately measured. Free-poured spirits are a no-no, and wine is often over or under-poured in big glasses. It depends on the bar and the server. Luckily I'm a bartender myself and I know the systems in our bar so even if I'm not working I'll ask my colleagues to pour my vodka using the jigger and…

The gym is part of my social life - I have friends who I meet and train with. We train hard and don't mess around, but what I really like is having friends with whom I catch catch up whilst doing something healthy as opposed to meeting over drinks, coffee, lunch or dinner. I realise there are cheaper activities than the…

Yes. yes yes yes.

I weigh myself every morning when I wake (after I visit the bathroom) but the day I care about is Sundays. I work 2 jobs on a Saturday and spend the day running around behind a bar but do no other form of exercise. I find that if the number on the scale drops it usually does so overnight from Saturday to Sunday. I don't…

It doesn't matter how often you step on the scale, it matters how you read it. I weigh myself every morning. The number goes up and down but it keeps me in check.

You can see my current physique in my profile pic. I go to the gym and lift with the boys. I do pull ups, real ones, I squat 60kg, bench 30kg and if you see me on a leg press machine I go up to 160kg. I do the same workouts as the boys, that is to say I don't skimp on my shoulder workouts for fear of getting bulky. Lifting…

Not yet but my training partner did last week, it was lucky I was there.

Oh and I squeezed in some hanging leg raises between weights.

I walked to the gym, did a 10min warm up on a treadmill then did 4x4 real pull-ups (I just moved on from parallel grip so I'm pretty pleased) then a bit of back and a lot of shoulders with free weights. Back to the treadmill for 30min then a good stretch. 88min start to finish. I also did an hour long yoga video earlier in…

Have you tried doing a meal prep? I prepare lots of mini meals in addition to snacks - it doesn't take up too much time and I have a variety of tasty and nutritious eats to look forward to during the day. I explained how I do it on my blog: http://kit-does-fit.tumblr.com/post/44877868335/my-meal-prep-explained

Personally I eat too fast and my brain and stomach take a while after eating to get in sync with each other. I've been making myself a cup of tea at the same time as my meal and I sip that during or after my meal. By the time I've finished my hot beverage my body has usually recognised that I'm not in fact hungry anymore.

I take 2 days per week as rest days. That doesn't mean I sit on my butt and do nothing, my rest days are my longest work days. I have a 10 hour work day and a 16-18 hour workday where I'm on my feet and active, but not exercising. Active rest is great for you, if you're not on your feet at work all day like me, you can…

It depends what I'm working on but I usually spend 1 to 2 hours at the gym. That's a 10 min warm up, my weights, sometimes cardio, then stretching. Yesterday was arms, which I do pretty quickly, then an hour on the treadmill. I was in and out in just under 2 hours. Today was legs, but I kept it short and then spent 20 min…

Whatever works for you ;)

I'm a bartender so I'm constantly surrounded by the stuff. From behind the bar I see that measurements aren't too accurate to go on either - a glass of wine might be almost double what you think it is. I struggled to keep to one or two drinks here or there so I swore off the stuff completely for a month. Now everyone…

I take 3g post workout. It's had no negative effects on me and my progress as far as I can tell.

We don't have any actually. I go to a really nice local gym and they even organise dinners and bowling nights out for us all. The funniest thing was the last dinner seeing a whole table of people leaving their rice, noodles etc and just eating chicken and veg.

4-5 days snowboarding about 3 hours 3-4 days lifting 1-2 hours

In winter I snowboard 5 days a week, lift heavy 3 to 4 days and do a treadmill session once per week. In the Summer I switch out snowboarding in favour of running either on the treadmill or outside, but I only run 4 times per week. No trainers or classes, I have a workout buddy every Sunday and occasionally train with the…

I go to a very small gym and while I don't mind extra people around, I do mind having to wait around for equipment to free up. Yesterday I had to share a pair of dumbbells with a big beefy frenchman and alternate our rests which was kind of funny but no good if you want to superset or take the shortest rests.

Its to do with insulin levels. You might be eating too much and the wrong sorts of foods. Look up low GI foods - they should keep you level and feeling good.

eggs carrots broccoli courgette bell pepper sweet potato turkey/chicken breasts tilapia tofu milk bananas brown/red rice/quinoa natural yoghurt porridge oats cocoa powder whole almonds Thats my regular shop pretty much. I'll buy different veggies in addition the the ones listed, and maybe play around with things on offer.…

One of the nice things about weight training is that it doesn't take so much time. Start with some compound exercises like squats, deadlifts, push ups etc, that work more than one muscle group. You can get an effective workout in and build on your strength in a short amount of time.

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I do 10min on the treadmill then spend time lifting. I sometimes run longer but generally I find weights more fun because I notice improvements more. For example, the last time I squatted 45kg but today I squatted 55kg. It's very motivating. On the treadmill I improve much slower.

Lots of water, sunscreen, food (this is not the time to avoid carbs), a hoodie and depending on weather a raincoat. Some money too just in case.

I have the ft7 for women and the wrist strap is fine but the chest strap is too big :( I have to tuck it under my sports bra and sometimes it still tries to slide down :(

If you're comfortable with it I don't see why it should be a problem. Personally, its a goal of mine to be confident enough to workout in just a sports bra and shorts. I tried it once coming back from a run in the summer but I put my vest back on after 5 min. There are loads of girls of varying shapes and sizes who workout…

I'm still working on those pesky exercise calories.

1. Learn some new things to do with free weights for more variety to my workouts 2. Up my dumbbells to the next KG