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Category | Fitness
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Description: I’m the creator
of the SPARTAN HEALTH REGIMEN
program which is a diet, training and lifestyle program aimed at health and
fitness fanatics. I’m an Australian but spend my time living between Sydney and
Las Vegas.
What got you started in health and
fitness?
I’ve always been
interested in health and fitness. I was always the guy doing extra training on
my own in school and trying to eat right. I followed all the advice I could
find in bodybuilding and fitness books and magazines. I read about and tried
nearly every system and method I could.
But it wasn’t
until I got heavily into Jiu Jitsu training in my mid-twenties that I started
to think there must be a better way to eat and train for maximum results.
Because for martial arts you want real functional strength and fitness not just
size.
I started a
quest to find the best methods for both diet and training while keeping in mind
the Bruce Lee philosophy to “Take what works and reject what doesn’t”.
What are your Favorite and least Favorite
exercises?
You mean for
strength training? I’m a big fan of compound movements for strength training
and against fancy isolation exercises. Isolation work might be good for injury
rehabilitation but it’s a waste of time for a guy who wants to build real
strength and power.
One of my all round
favorite strength exercises for the upper body is the Overhead Press. I move a
lot of students off focusing on the Bench Press and onto hard training with the
overhead press. This builds a lot of functional strength through the whole
shoulder girdle area which is totally useable in contact sports and in real
life situations like a fight. Plus it’s a more natural movement than the bench
press, causes less injuries and creates a look of POWER by developing the
shoulder, upper chest and upper back muscles rather than just big droopy pecs.
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Spartan Health Regime