Fat Loss Training

A recent question from one of our personal training clients on the best form of cardio for fat loss:   Nick, I am confused about what is better for maximum fat loss, cardio such as walking and jogging or harder, interval type training.  I have a lot of body fat to drop and want to get lean as quickly and efficiently as possible.  I know your reputation for getting personal tr...

By Nick Mitchell Why don’t you step into my office for a second and give me the truth.  As interested as you are in health and fitness, as enjoyable and satisfying as it may be for you to run quickly or lift an impressively heavy weight, the real reason why most of you read my regular personal training column here at AskMen is because you want to look good naked.   Sharp c...

By Nick Mitchell Every day without fail my inbox has at least half a dozen personal training queries in it all asking the same thing. Whether it’s from a man or a woman, young or old, one thing that everybody wants is a flat stomach. They want to know what to eat, how to exercise, and more often than not why all the work they are currently doing (for some reason I tend to frighten off mo...

By NIck Mitchell What is the question that I get asked most often? Teenage boys aside, whose obsession with big pecs and biceps are unparalleled, fat loss and lean stomach questions win hands down. If I am perfectly truthful it amazes me that so many people are so confused by a subject upon which countless millions, make that billions probably, of words have been written in the last 20 years...

By Nick Mitchell “If I had a penny for every time..” It’s amazing, every week I have at least two women approach me with a sometimes desperate mix of frustration, resignation and incredulity in their eyes. They don’t eat junk food, they don’t eat after 7pm, they religiously attend 4 cardio classes and at least 1 pilates sessions week in week out, and yet their we...

By Nick Mitchell I’ll start this article off with a rather personal admission. Many of you who are now familiar with my work may consider me something of an expert in the world of body composition and conditioning. Certainly an objective outsider would only have to look at the Ultimate Performance client list and the results they get to gain the impression that I am one of the very bes...

The following is part of an interview conducted with Nick Mitchell by Kevin Braddock of the national newspaper The Daily Mail. He discusses the dreaded beer belly and some of it's causes and solutions. The Beer Belly Q: It is true that the beer belly is actually created by bingeing on beer? What else can cause one? Nick Mitchell: (First of all you need to make it clear that a beer belly i...