Brad Turnbull’s Online Weight Training and Diet Advice
I am proud to announce the launch of the new Online Weight Training Advice Page with Brad Turnbull. I think this sets us apart from our competitors. Everyone will tell you that their weight training equipment is the best but often they have never really trained on it. We not only train on the equipment we now have diet and weight training programs that are tailored to the Powertec and Ironmaster gym equipment.
It is no use having the world’s best home gym in your garage if you are doing all the wrong exercises and eating rubbish. You can train your guts out but you will not get the results. From my own personal experience I slogged away for years in the gym and got at best okay results. If I trained intensely for 6 weeks I would notice changes but then I would just hit the brick wall. I was over training and my system would get burnt out. Often I would get sick or have a lay off and be back at square one again.
Like a lot of weight trainers I was doing weight training programs that were not suited to my weight training goals or my training level. I would have achieved a whole lot more if I went back to basics. I found it difficult to find a reliable source of weight training information that was suitable for me. I read books, magazines and the internet on bodybuilding and powerlifting. Every author was saying they were right yet a lot of times their advice was contradictory.
Looking back I would have been much better off seeing a personal trainer who specialized in weight training. Once again I was too pig headed and thought that personal trainers were simply for people who lacked motivation to do their own fitness training and could not be bothered researching their own information.
Luckily for me a bloke called Brad Turnbull called from WA asking about the Powertec and Ironmaster gym equipment. Well after one of many hour long phone calls I came away with more weight training knowledge than after years of reading and searching on the net.
Brad came over to judge the IFBB Australian Championships in 2007 and stayed with my wife and I for a week. It was an awesome week. Brad loves to have a chat and I picked his brains on anything to do with weight training, nutrition, bodybuilding etc. Brad has read all the books, web pages, seen all the DVD’s, and tried all the diets and weight training programs. In a week Brad was able to tell me what worked and what didn’t and saved me a lifetime of research and trial and error. Even better he loved to talk about it and didn’t mind answering my questions.
At the end of the week Brad sorted out a diet and weight training program for Matt and myself. It was pretty much the same as the Basic Weight Training Diet and Basic Weight Training Program. Straight away we noticed changes.
Firstly the most obvious was that I eased right up on the farting. Previously I was mixing my protein shakes with light milk. I also used to drink a big glass of milk with dinner. I loved milk. The only problem was that Brad informed me that you lose the ability to digest milk after 25. As a result, the afternoons would sometimes descend into an O,H and S issue in the warehouse. My wife tells me it didn’t get any better at night.
The next thing I noticed was that I wasn’t spending as much on food and spending as much time preparing it. The diet was really simple and using the tips Brad gave me whilst staying, it was also tasty too. My wife liked to cook and we ate healthy, but making fancy dinners during the week was time consuming and as we found out expensive. We pretty much stopped going to Woolworths weekly – only going there occasionally now. I now get my meat and chicken from the local butcher and get the rest from the local IGA, where the fruit and veg is much cheaper and fresher. Since I know exactly what to eat and when to eat it, I know how much I need for the week. We no longer throw out stuff that we didn’t use.
Most importantly I felt much better. I never felt bloated and managed to keep my weight constant. I also had much more energy to train and recovered much quicker. I sometimes have to work long hours so it is easy to feel drained. I still do at times but nothing like I used to because I am getting the right nutrients in the right proportions.
I also noticed big changes with the weight training program that Brad set out for me. Brad looked at the photos of me when I was in good shape and picked out the areas I needed to work on. Plus he also took into consideration my shoulder problems. The result was a program that was fairly basic. I must admit I felt a little disappointed expecting something a little more complicated but once I got stuck into it I understood why he designed it that way.
Once we worked through the program a couple of times I really started upping the intensity. The program worked liked a treat and I didn’t experience any joint pain as I really focused on isolating the muscle and not trying to lift too heavy. Without the joint pain I was really fresh and ready to go on the next training session.
So if you are not happy with the results you are getting from your weight training why not fill out one of our Weight Training Advice Forms and see what Brad can do for you. Brad takes into account what gym equipment you have available if you are training in a home gym. Plus he takes into consideration your schedule so that your training is manageable. The diets are simple to follow so all you need to do is provide the motivation. Once you get into it you will notice some changes and that will be enough motivation to keep powering on.
Here is a picture of Brad firing off his guns on the Ironmaster IM2000 - looking good champion!
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