TheBlakeway

Your "body age" is determined by…
VOz max
Muscle mass
Strength
Mobility
Insulin sensitivity
Recovery markers
Inflammation
Mitochondrial function.

These come from training, eating, sleeping, and living...
Not the number on your passport.
How long will you put off what you are capable of doing, just to continue what you are comfortable doing?

Day 19 of the November Burpee Challenge ❤️

For the cause, not for applause. 🙏

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far! 92% of Macmillan’s income comes from charitable drives and public support. Every penny is so much appreciated.

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https://socialsync.app/fundraiser/cr-63m78zk98ojm

Halfway through the November Burpee Challenge!🙌
So grateful for all the donations so far….
Link below to help this amazing organisation continue to support so many people 👇❤️

https://socialsync.app/fundraiser/cr-63m78zk98ojm

This is 75.

(After full knee replacement surgery…)

You are not your age.
You are your energy.

One is chronological, the other is biological.

The two most influential factors on longevity that YOU have complete control of:
👉Strength
👉VO2 max

It’s not about showing off.
It’s about showing up and future-proofing your life.

Get in touch if you need support. 👇
theblakeway.co

The most important information you need about diet and nutrition.
If you're wanting to change your body composition and shape for life, please start with this in mind.....

1. Telling somebody to change their eating habits is as effective as telling a smoker to quit in 24 hours. Here's why👆

2. No amount of 'WHAT I EAT IN A DAY' posts can change your internal relationship with food. Here's why👆

3. Diet clubs, slimming products and eating patterns that swerve too far off centre are designed to make you fail. When a weight loss company 'cures' a client they lose a customer.Read that again. Here's how 👆

4. If everybody had the compulsion to eat within their energy output and adapt to whole foods there wouldn't be more than 64% of the UK population classified as overweight and obese. People know they have to eat less but don't. Here's why 👆

5. Start with what you CAN control. Movement.
Is nutrition important? YES!However the problem facing all of us in the first world is lack of MOVEMENT.
We don't even get up to switch lights off anymore!!!! Alexa does it!

6. Establish discipline. Move. Train. Increase muscle density which, in turn, makes you more metabolically efficient. Then, with this as your platform start working on the changes needed in your diet to create a calorie in, energy out balance.

7. Get professional help if you can't do it alone. Not monetised snacks of information from 'influencers' on social media. Trust the science not the hype.



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What does it mean to be ‘fit’?

For many, it refers to a sport they played when they were young. Or something they ‘enjoy’ or a media trend they’ve heard is the way to a perfect physique!

To be ‘fit’ is a balance of TEN EQUAL COMPONENTS; showing competency in each translates to being a ‘fit’ individual….

Here they are:
1. Cardiovascular endurance (both aerobic and anaerobic)
2. Muscular Strength
3. Endurance
4. Flexibility
5. Power
6. Speed
7. Agility
8. Balance
9. Accuracy
10. Coordination

My focus is to ensure that we develop each if these, consistently, in every workout!
This is done by creating compound, functional movements that require several different aspects of the above criteria to merge into one exercise.

There is an additional benefit to this approach… you’ll be doing more in much less time than traditional gym workouts!

✔️ the more muscles you can employ in one of exercise will result in higher calorie/energy expenditure.
✔️ mental stimulation activates the mind/muscle connection leading to more ‘conscious’ training rather than going through the motions of what you’ve done before.
✔️ the body requires constant ‘shock’ to stimulate adaptation which leads to increased strength, energy release etc - the daily variety of my workouts will do that.
I never repeat a session in the same format!
✔️ shorter workouts, focussing on intensity and minimising rest periods will help to keep you in the habit of exercising which is half the battle won.

If I can get you to burn the same amount of calories in half an hour, covering all the components listed above, as most people do in 50 minutes focussing on just one element, that’s a productive use of time!
JB

Setting up the weekend…
On Saturday we HYBRID!
FitGang smashed it and the beautiful Denise Lewis made something horrid look so graceful 💯❤️🫶