Pro-teen Wolf Matt Lovell is a sports nutritionist to a number of Olympians and the England Rugby Team (www.sportsnutrionvlog.com).
Matt Lovell
“I’d tell myself to eat more protein because I never used to eat enough,” says Lovell. “I trained like mad man, but didn’t add muscle because after exercise I’d scoff things like pitta bread with tomatoes.” Use it: “The most powerful thing you can do to put lean muscle on the front foot is drink a protein and carbs shake before and after your workouts,” says Lovell. Research in the Journal of Applied Physiology found this positively alters your hormonal and metabolic responses to exercise, making it easier to build muscle and burn fat and hit your goals faster than Dizzee Rascal spits lyrics.
Stop the Max Madness of being a road warrior Nick Tumminello is one of the world’s top strength and performance coaches to NFL players and professional fighters (nicktumminello.com).
Mark Tumminello
“I’d refuse to let myself do as much road running. I’d cut up my Air Max’s if I had the opportunity,” says Tumminello. Use it: Running can have a place in just about everyone’s routine, but it doesn’t improve sports performance and isn’t the best way to burn fat. “Road work is tough on your joints and joggers usually suffer from a running injury every six months,” says Tumminello. “If you want to burn fat or train for sports you’re better off using short spurts of exercise, such as hitting a boxing bag or doing interval training where you sprint for ten seconds then walk for 30 seconds to recover.”
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Nicholas Gill
Dr Nicholas Gill is the head strength and conditioning coach to the All Blacks.
“I’d tell myself and the people I train to spend less time in the gym, although it would be tough because that strategy worked for some back in the 1970s, but most people don’t realise at the time that their heroes were pharmaceutically assisted,” says Gill. Use it: Science has found that to build muscle, a quick game is a good game. Studies in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that weight training for longer than an hour fails to bump up your muscle-building hormones, such as testosterone. Long-winded muscle building sessions are actually exercises in futility, so try to finish your workout in 50 minutes. Good news if you’re short on time, better news if you’re hell bent on getting tighter sleeves.
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