Fitness Talks With Tyson The Trainer

If you've been trying to diet and you can't seem to stick to it, that might be a sign to take a break. Sometimes we can't pick a reason as to why we can't stick to a diet but that's nothing to beat ourselves up about because sometimes for some reason our body just doesn't want to cooperate, so instead, focus on other things...

One thing we can all do better with is developing discipline. It is a great skill to build up because it will help you in all areas of your life. No one has ever complained about how having discipline has caused them issues in their life, yet everyone struggles with their lack of discipline. So today I want to help you understand what discipline is and how you can become more disciplined.

This is a bonus episode that's different from the typical sports nutrition episodes that I usually post on a Thursday.   Alex Thomas and I did a double interview with each other and shared our journeys on how we got to where we are today and what it takes to get there.   This is also a preliminary to launching our course next week called nutrition fundamentals that will be coming out in August.

Your mind is such an underrated tool and it's something you can't take for granted. We are so quick to be negative to ourselves or to underestimate our mentality when you can use your mindset to help you succeed. Here are some mindset tips for you.

One thing you want to get good at as an athlete is being able to maintain your weight with the least amount of effort possible. The less effort you have to put in to maintain your weight, the less mental attention you have to dedicate to maintenance. In today's episode, I want to share with you what you should be doing while maintaining your weight and how it's going to help you in the long term.

Sam from the people's gym was kind enough to ask me to come on and do a QNA for his clients at the people's gym. This was just some basic questions that were asked from his clients that they wanted answers to and it was great to sit down and have a chat.

It's tough to be an athlete and hold yourself to high standards. We love the responsibility and the focus but sometimes even the best of us can fall off track and struggle. If you have fallen off track and you're having a tough time getting back into the swing of things, you're not alone. There are some good habits that you can follow to help get your mindset back in the right frame of mind.

I love doing my Saturday truth bombs and today I thought I'd make those truth bombs into a podcast rant. Sometimes we just need to be told the hard truth about certain things and accept the truth. Just because we don't like to hear the facts or disagree with them doesn't mean they are wrong.

As an athlete, you have high standards for yourself. You always expect yourself to be doing the best and never want to feel like you're failing. The truth is that life is not stable and things are going to come up. This means that you may get thrown out of routine, lose your sense of direction or just get in a bad headspace, but that doesn't mean that you have to give up everything. Here's how to...

Have you ever heard that you need to be eating more food on the days you train in the gym and less food on the days you don't? In today's podcast, I'm going to be breaking down the myths associated with high carb days or high-calorie days and explaining why most of you aren't ever going to need to worry about this.

If you're an athlete wanting to gain a little bit of muscle mass then this episode is for you. When it comes to gaining muscle, this is slow progress which is why the saying "slow is the way to grow" is the best way to think about this. We can't gain muscle as fast as we would like to and because of that, we have to make adjustments to how fast our rate of weight gain is. Ideally, you should be ga...

Something that I touched on a few weeks ago on my Instagram and I realised how prevalent it is is females losing their menstrual cycle. It is NEVER normal for a for a female to stop menstruating so if you've lost your menstrual cycle you need to work on restoring it ASAP. Now usually this happens when people are dieting for long periods of time, are low levels of body fat or they exercise a lot an...

Even as an athlete you can fall off track. The hard thing is when you fall off track is to get your head back into the game because it's hard. Especially when you have high expectations of yourself and you want to be able to stick to what you say you'll do. However, you're a human and it's going to happen, so here's how to get back on track.

I hate to admit I'm wrong, I like being right. But when I am wrong, no matter how much I hate to admit it, I will admit that I am wrong and change my opinion. There have been a lot of things in the nutrition world that I've changed my thoughts on and over the last 18 months, there have been a lot of things that I've actually changed. In today's video, I want to share with you those things that I'v...

I've gone over before about what you should focus on when it comes to achieving the body you want. In today's podcast, I'm going to do the opposite and tell you what you need to be focusing less on. Too many people are following way too many fitfluencers and thinking they have to follow all of these obsessive little things when they don't. If you just focus on avoiding what most of these people sa...

Sodium is an electrolyte and it's not something you should be scared of. If you're someone who has a healthy blood pressure and you have a good sodium intake, I'd recommend increasing your sodium. Sodium can help with performance and muscle contraction so it might be worth trying to bump it up. As you slowly increase it (I'd suggest increasing it by about 300mg per week) you can monitor your blood...

Sometimes you will find yourself stuck in a rut. You keep eating foods you shouldn't eat, you fall off track with your training and you are falling into a bit of a spiral. You are not alone and this happens more commonly than you think. What I want to do today is to share with you how you can get yourself out of a rut and back on track.

Optimal is something that you should only be focusing on once you have everything else down pat. This is not something you try to do when you can't even hit your fruit and veggie goals or reach your daily protein requirements. "Optimising" is when you're looking to ship that needle a little bit further towards that 1 - 2% extra progress that you're trying to eek out to be the best. So here's how y...

Hunger is going to be something you'll have to deal with when you're dieting. But just because you have to deal with it doesn't mean that it's going to be something you can't reduce. I've got a few tips that are going to help you deal with hunger when you are dieting that will keep you on track.

I have recently just completed my diet for boxing and I wanted to share my journey with you. I decided to enter a dieting phase because I needed to get to 86kg if I wanted to get into fighting weight. So I decided to diet down from 92.6 down to 87.5kg, losing 5kg in total. I'm just going to share with you the process I took to lose weight the right way without impacting my performance.

Everyone in the fitness industry is jumping on some pretty bad trends at the moment and it's causing people a lot of harm. Especially when it comes to gut health. I don't know why but for some reason they love to follow these trending fads because they're popular but they have no consideration for the negative outcomes. Like your gut health, people don't realise how the "fit foods" that they choos...

Hydration for athletes is such an important topic and even though it's covered, I don't think people realise how important it is. If your goal is to perform at your best then you need to know how much you need to drink to be hydrated. The reason for this is when dehydration increases, there is a gradual reduction in physical and mental performance. There is an increase in heart rate and body tempe...

Last week I talked about weight class sports and how they play a part in an athletes life. If you are someone who's in a weight class sport and you're considering dropping one or a few weight classes then you have to be smart about your choices. One of the things you don't want to do is to remove carbohydrates completely because you're going to negatively impact your performance. To avoid making t...

Everyone is in a rush to get the results when it comes to fitness. You think that you can go from 0 - 100 overnight and expect to see your ideal body within just a few weeks or months of training and dieting. Here's a newsflash for you, it doesn't work that way. If you want to really look after your health and fitness, this isn't just a 12-week challenge, this is a lifestyle change for the better!...