Rich Sennewald

and courses are back on at post lockdown.usinf the purpose built studio kitchen!

We've got a full house today covering prep, portioning, jointing, seasoning, cooking, flavour science, calorie control and of course, BBQing out in the sun!

Were going to be playing with whole chickens as students learn to joint, season, brine and portion them aswell as some amazing brisket mince, marrow and marrowbone and local breads for the burgers, along with slaws and other salads

A great course to brush up on skills and knowledge or equip yourself for some new habits and with new skills going forward post lockdown!

Interested in booking for yourself or a group?
Get in touch asap for a custom day

More dates soon.

Today was a Chilli-Cheese Dog day.

Had the little ones as kitchen assistants again, as is the norm these days- who were very perplexed at the idea of putting chilli , on a hot-dog.

But upon tasting the finished article were pleased with their efforts.

Bit of an American theme with baseball in the field and hot-dogs for lunch but everything you see here was from less than 5 miles away, thanks to , save for the buns, because I forgot to grab bread whilst I was shopping and the mustard.

Hotdogs don't get much love at all, but can definitely be a show-stopper if you do them right.

Might be one for the BBQ courses when all returns to normality.

Use up the leftovers in your cupboard to make Homeland wraps! A BBQ fave.

Marinate cubed beef in lemon or lime juice, salt, garlic, paprika and coriander leaf.

Skewer and slow grill over the BBQ.

Make salsa with tinned tomato, lemon or lime juice, chipped onion, chilli puree and peppers, throw in fresh coriander leaf if you can.

Make potato salad with the mountains of potato you've panic bought.

Put it all into a wrap (garlic naan here)



As always - proudly fed by

A little BBQ recipe I use and AWFUL lot, for Pit-beans and a good way to use some of the tins from the cupboard.

It works really well with your own BBQ sauce!

The Sun is out and we're almost all staying at home!

Next time you fire up the BBQ don't forget the sides, this recipe for Texas-style beans from Perrys BBQ Tutor Rich Sennewald is a great way to make use of the tins in the cupboard, working really well with any and all tinned bean, but especially Pinto, Butter or kidney beans and goes amazingly well with bbq pork dishes.

Ingredients:
1-2 Tins of beans
1 large red onion (Shredded)
1-2tbs of butter
2 cloves of garlic per tin of beans (Minced)
1 tsp per tin of beans of cumin, chili flakes, smoked paprika & flaked sea-salt
300g of cherry tomatoes per tin.
1 cup of stock of your choice+ cornflour to thicken
2 cups of beer (one for you, one for the food)
(Optional) Diced bacon lardons.
If using a bbq - a good handful of wood-chips to smoke.

To Garnish:
Spring onion, coriander leaf, salt & pepper to taste and season.
Soured cream, to serve with the final product.

This one is so easy!

This cooks low and slow, in the bbq on a low-burn, so is an ideal one to throw in next to larger joints, ribs, forerib and so on, or equally can be done in the oven.

Slap an ovenproof onto your BBQ with the lid-down (We have an old crock-pot that we use for the BBQ as the smoke and heat will permanently discolor it) over a low-heat.

Put all the ingredients bar the tomato into the pot - give them a good stir together and allow them to sit and sizzle and the flavors mingle.

Pop a wire-mesh over the top of the crock-pot or pan and sit your tomatoes on top of this, sitting over the top of other ingredients
(this is so they can cook an take in a little smoke where possible, and contribute to the below ingredients) throw your wood chips on and close the lid to your bbq, allowing the smoke to circulate as the tomatoes soften and cook.

After about 15 to 25 mins of sizzling, drink cup of beer #1 and pour cup of beer #2 into the mix and smash the tomatoes into the mix as well; stirr the mix and allow it to bubble for another 5 or 10mins.

Pour in your cup of stock that you've already thickened. give it a good stir together and pop a lid over the pan, leaving it in the lowest heat area until the beans are cooked and the rest of your food is ready - then serve it all up garnished with the sides.

If you like it a little more firey - throw some dashes of hot-sauce or bbq sauce of your choice over the top and dig in!

Time to polish up my trainer badges.
Stocked up on restore pots and got all the HMs ready.

Jenny's cooking up some low-level minions.

Chris and I are looking forward to all the "kids eat free" deals we can take advantage of and a good excuse to go visit the science and history museums.

There's also gonna be one to spot each end of the barbell for Kat and Helen.

Time to start my own E-sports team too.

It's got to be somewhere between 3 and 4 for me.

Delicious, crisp saltiness.

This is crucial research.

We are making the ENTIRE back-catalog of the Applied Nutrition & Supplementation course FREE to everyone as of today.

visit http://norsegym.co.uk/my-account/ to create a free account and simply follow the instructions there to gain access to everything.

You will find a simple sign-up form. once you fill that in with a name, password, and email you will get immediately sent to the course landing page - click "take this course" and that's it.

This course was initially accredited by the AfN and although no longer accredited the content is still valid.

It is suitable for FitPro's wanting a bit of nutrition revision but also really useful for people stuck in the house wanting to do some education in the field of nutrition and exercise.

My own personal success in the fitness industry (back in the day) was very much down to the kindness and cooperation of others whom I have had the pleasure to work with over the years, who to my pleasure as still very-much active now (such as the Lift The Bar team, the Elite Fitness Mentoring group, and my very humble beginnings way-back-when with the BTN crew.)

I hope that with making the Applied Nutrition and Supplementation course entirely free to access, for all of you will likewise help yourselves.

Some of you may use it to help yourselves day-to-day, with the information about energy tracking, diet, and health or some may use it in your new move towards being online trainers, with the closure of your studios and gyms.

Whilst myself and Dr. Mendoza are not actively teaching or monitoring this course, you can still interact with us through our social media profiles

This content has been used as the foundation of education for literally thousands upon thousands of students who have gone on to do incredible things from PHDs to running international sports teams.

This site includes access to the entire Applied Nutrition and Supplementation course and Foundations of Nutrition Course that previously carried AfN Certification and elements of Gary's behavioral change courses and doctoral research.

This content ranges in depth from that suitable for a beginner to a seasoned fitness professional.

Now - this whole site is a one-man job in terms of maintenance and upkeep, so - fingers crossed you don't all explode it.
Remember guys - stay kind, stay positive and keep yourselves occupied

Lots of love

Rich & Gary.

Food is never boring, if you know how to use spices, herbs and aromatics, along with salt, fat, acids and heat.

Do you recognise everything on the plate?

Couples pole workshop with the other half?

Why not.

I've learnt over the last few years to stop only doing stuff I'm good at and to cease giving a s**t about being a total novice at things.

It only serves to deny you the opportunity to try (and enjoy) new things.

We were. An absolute mess and probably the instructors worst nightmare, but we tried hard and had a proper laugh.

Try new things, be active, even if you're crap.

Had the opportunity to work with three amazing chefs at these last few weeks.

Three different chefs and three very different meals!

It was an absolute pleasure to watch work and his fish dish almost made me emotional.

created the most amazing lamb dish I'd ever had

And created the most beautiful chocolate cake, with buttercream I just wanted to drown myself in.

Keep watching and for their cooking tips videos and their course dates, learning to create Spanish tappas, bake incredible cakes and work expertly with fresh fish.

😍

An afternoon with chef at ahead of his course working with fish.

Salmon Tartar anyone?

Yeah... It didn't last long after filming 😂❤️

I'm with of the Secret Kitchen and Wild Shropshire restaurant and the team today.

I've spent all of a few hours around James and his knowledge has blown me away.

My BBQ recipes are about to get a serious kick up the arse.

Ho ho ho
Merry Liftmas 💪👍

May Santa bring you lots of gains and happy times today and for the rest of the year 🏋️‍♂️

And yes, that Santa is me.
Jen pimped me out this year as a charity Santa

I only made a few kids cry and we made a killing from mom's wanting to sit on my lap

Who knew so many of you were so naughty this year. 🤔

🎅🦌

Top tip for serving the best steak.

I always prefer to season the board that I carve and rest on when serving something like a T-bone.

Black pepper, garlic and rosemary take on entirely different flavours when you simply rest toss the meat through, rather than cooking a peice of steak in the pan which was seasoned with it.

It also makes for easier sharing and pretty presentation.

The cut used here is a dry aged Tbone from a locally reared Dexter, from

New dates for the couples steak nights in janruary and February at
Are coming soon, be sure to follow my pages to be the first to know about them!

A successful evening at for the Merrymaking evening!

Loads going on in the kitchen, baking demos, butchery and pie making with the little ones, who loved getting stuck in!

Same time again next week people! (Wednesday at 6pm).

Families, kids, kitchen-ophobes all welcome, so pop down for some drinks, nibbles and more if you are close by!

One for my local friends.

On the 25th, we're trialing our Steak workshop at Perrys of Eccleshall , which means our very first workshop is insanely good value, as a way of christening the new kitchen!

It's going to be an awesome evening for 4 pairs / couples / buddies covering the science of cooking perfect steak.

We will discuss everything from cooking, where the cuts come from, how that impacts cooking and prepare a tasting board of every cut of steak you can imagine during the evening.

We then finish the night with some proper food, a steak dinner cooked for you both by myself and Master Butcher Stephen HIll of Perrys.

Tickets are £40 for a pair for this first time workshop on Monday the 25th of November.

See you there!

This is your friendly reminder to get up and move about today, weather you use one leg, two legs or swing from some monkey bars.

Photo by Lynda of CrossFit Allied 💪

Everything you ever wanted to know, about cheap cheap protein - shin of beef, on the bone.

Might post a video about it later. Idk 🤷🏻‍♂️

Don't you wish your food-tech lessons were like this as a kid?

When I was in school, I remember the lessons quite well.

I am lucky, as a kid, having always been allowed to run free in the kitchen, 10 year old me was puzzled when our teachers taught us to make 'soup'...

We were asked to bring in a tin of soup, like tomato, beef broth or chicken and then added a few cut up vegetables to it - informed that this skill of making a cheap meal would serve us well in later life.

Instead, today, in the lesson delivered for these kids, we talked about, herbs, oils, colours, textures and tastes, before using a chicken carcass and offcuts to make our own stock.

We are super happy that one of the local schools have taken a leap of faith and decided to allocate a portion of their teaching budget to having the kids come to us for their lessons.

A chance to get into the schools and work with the kids when they are super interested and engaged, outside of the classroom is awesome and incredibly important if we want to make a difference!

Keep watching this space to see this project grow as we offer workshops and more to schools and fammilys over half term 💪

Find out more by following my updates and checking out:

Happy Birthday

My absolute favorite person in the world to over-eat with.

Thanks for dealing with my s**t for another year.
You haven't aged a bit!

❤️❤️❤️

(don't worry , she'll never take our schwarma and bacon making us)

cookery school update!

The build has nearly finished!

First class of kids will be coming at the start of September!

I might have to re-surface on social media now, I've been enjoying my haitus!

Happy third birthday to my diva dog Harper who has helped keep me in my toes and fit and healthy for a long time now. ❤️🐾

She may be super snooty and a bit of a mard sometimes and annoying as hell, but I love her to bits.

I like to sniff her head sometimes, which people think is weird.

Happy 3rd birthday 🎉

Trialing some locally sourced charcoal this week from Pics and Sticks, an anchient forest, twee Hem woodland in the Shropshire region, managed by traditional coppice methods.

Pics and Sticks
and

Verdict on the Tommahawks - amazingly good for some dirty bbq steaks.

is strong today.

I need new socks. Lots of new socks..

What're you rocking? I need inspiration.

Newest addition to the reef.
I've waited a long time to get a nice bubble tip.

Its likely going to be descended upon by the droves of sexy shrimp in the tank as I don't have clowns to host it.

But I think sexy shrimp wiggling their bits around an anemone looks pretty cool too.

Hurricane Harper is very happy that spring has sprung and she can frolic amongst the bluebells once again!

Meal prep like a pro, with &

Cannot wait to get my students in the kitchen at the cookery school, which is sooooo nearly complete...

I've been holding back my recipie books and videos for the launch and am itching to get going...

Today I've created three meals for Jens lunchboxes for the weekend, ranging from beef shin chilli (see our video from a few weeks ago for this one)

Thinly sliced Japanese beef salad

Shredded chicken and green bean salsa.

Everything will be taught on the various classes and courses we will run

Photo from the competition a few weeks ago.

Event 2 had a 5 min time cap and required us to work through the complex of:

1x full clean, 1x hang clean, 2x front squat, 2x Overhead press

The complex had to be performed Unbroken (the bar cannot touch the ground)

One event that was a little more to my strengths.

I spent a full 15mins warming up in the athlete area before this event, until the last possible second, so that I could open on a solid weight rather than spend valuable time building during the time cap.

This was my opening lift.

I placed first in the first 30 seconds of lifting.

(granted this was always going to be an event I was going to do well in)

I did everything to make the event as easy as possible for myself by preparing.

I've competed in various sports over the years and it seems to be common across all of them, that many, many people don't warm up sufficiently.

As coaches we really need to promote the importance of proper preparation for lifting ESPECIALLY where maximal effort is concerned, or variables the lifter/athlete comes into contact with are going to be unpredictable, such as in team and contact sports.

Basically... Just all round..
Teach your clients to warm up properly!!



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Little bit of non exercise activity to stay trim.. Ish