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...

Get fit at 40 This article on getting fit and fat loss at forty first appeared in Men's Health in 2009.  It details the personal training and coaching that Nick Mitchell did with Men's Health Fitness Editor Wesley Doyle to help him get into the shape of his life and be the oldest man ever to grace the cover of the magazine.     Forty and fit Strength and conditioning coach...

The December / January 2009 edition of Men's Health magazine featured one of Nick Mitchell's clients, Fitness Editor Wesley Doyle, on the cover and detailed over the following 5 page article his startling transformation from fat to fit, and a soft and chubby 20% body fat down to a lean and ripped 10% body fat! Click here for PDF

Female Fat Loss, Estrogen and Stubborn Lower Body Fat Female fat loss can be a frustrating business.  You’ve been attending the gym regularly, maybe even working with a personal trainer (Editor's note - warning, not all personal trainers are created equally!) sticking to a strict fat loss meal plan and avoiding those nights out with the girls. Your tummy feels tighter, clothes fee...

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...