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Having been in the biz for over two decades, I have seen many fitness fashions come and go and often come back again and I don?t mean exercises or training systems but actual gym wear. Needless to say that gym wear fashion often mirrors high street fashion and those of us who remember the 70s and 80s may remember things like day-glo Lycra, leg warmers and other such things with anything but fondness.

One of the great truisms of nutrition is that you are what you eat. Everything you eat ultimately becomes part of you or passes though you and affects your body at a cellular level. If you eat good, healthy food then that is what you will be ? healthy. If however, you eat nothing but fatty, sugary junk ? your health will inevitably suffer.

It's been another busy week at Anax HQ! We have had lots of new arrivals from many of our loved fitness brands. This week has seen an increase in the purchase of hoodies and sweat pants. With summer coming to a close and customers saying bye to the warm weather we are starting to build our thermal inventories!

It's been another busy week at Anax HQ! We have had lots of new arrivals from many of our loved fitness brands. This week has seen an increase in the purchase of hoodies and sweat pants

The first two you are probably thinking "Yeah, I've seen GASP Clothing on Athletes. Come to think of it... Bodybuilding athletes from the USA". What you may not know is that originally GASP Clothing was developed in Sweden, In Stockholm, Over 20 years ago

After working in the fitness industry for more almost 30-years and having spent a lot of that time training for and competing in a variety of sports, I reckon I have learnt a few things about exercise and nutrition worth passing on.

I love reading about fitness and exercise. I?m very lucky in many ways because I get paid to talk and write about my hobby and that means the research I have to do to stay ahead of the information curve doesn?t feel like ?homework? but is actually something I?d be doing if I wasn?t professionally involved in fitness anyway.

If you tell anyone you lift weights, at some point they are going to ask you ?so ? what do you bench?? The bench press epitomizes weight training for many people and even those who have never set foot in a gym will have a rudimentary understanding of the bench press.

What you do in the gym plays a vital role in the size and strength of your muscles; if you want to gain muscle mass you need to focus on compound lifts like squats and bench presses, strive to increase your weights, reps or sets week by week and allow your body time to recovery by including rest days in your programme.

Marathon runners, bodybuilders and all kinds of other fitness fanatics ask this question time and time again as they race to replenish their nutritional stores after a hard work-out. When trying to plan your workout recovery it?s really important to remember that standard foods will always be better than those that are engineered - even if they?re marketed as re-energising.