July-August 2018

Men's Fitness South Africa

The new measure of success

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Publisher’s Note
We’re bombarded almost daily with people who are looking for us to invest with them, fielding phone calls from clearly overcrowded call centers on the greatest next big venture, someone who claims they can navigate the choppy waters of cryptocurrency
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What Winners Know
GET THE SUPPLEMENT ■ Hardcore Whey gH is a unique formulation of premium quality whey protein with an optimal amino acid content. It also contains an advanced Hypervol Glycotrans system to drive the protein into your glycogen stores as well as creati
Men's Fitness South Africa2 min readDiet & Nutrition
A Boulder Way To Get Happy
Cutting-edge news from the frontiers of science Cancer can thrive on the sweet stuff, showing a possible link between diet and the Big C. Sugary diets have been shown to affect a gene tied to longevity, cutting lifespan by 7%. Eating 25% of your dail
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Guilt-free Desserts
SERVES 5-6 • 1kg sweet potato peeled, steamed and mashed2 heaped tbs raw cacao5 tbsp raw honey• 100g almond flour2 tsp Vanilla Essence2 tsp Caramel Essence1 tsp Oryx desert salt2 tsp bicarbonate of soda8 eggs – (4 whole eggs and 4 egg whites) • 300g
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Becoming A Runner
YOU CAN RUN pretty much anywhere, with pretty much no equipment. So it must be easy to start — just put one foot in front of the other, right? •Not quite,• Starting a new training program, like most things, is stepping into unfamiliar territory. You’
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4 Ways To Build More Muscle
YOU KNOW THE SAYING “LESS IS MORE”? Well, it applies to building muscle, too. Carelessly piling on weight and doing more work can be a one-way ticket to overtraining and injury. A smarter way to add an inch to your arms or bulk up your legs: Train wi
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Spin Cycle
“Comfort is the No. 1 driver of cycling performance — if you’re not comfortable on the bike, you’ll ride less and won’t improve”, says cycling expert Mat Steinmetz. That means adjusting the saddle so your knees and ankles can move within an optimal r
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Gluten Maximus
IN THE LATE ’90S, I was teaching culinary students about a gluten-free (GF) diet for people with a medical condition called celiac disease. Back then, gluten was foreign, and the idea of not eating pizza, bread, or pasta was absurd. Today, 20 years l
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Meals On Wheels
PICTURE IT: AN upgraded century bicycle ride — with elaborate on-course food, a post-ride feast, live entertainment — crossed with a chip-timed race. Sounds like bike paradise! That’s what you get with a gran fondo (Italian for “big ride”), a new kin
Men's Fitness South Africa1 min readCooking, Food & Wine
A Sizzling Line-up
Their superpowers aren’t well known, but onions are a potent source of flavonoids like quercetin, which has cancer-killing abilities. To keep it from drying out, cook flank steak — which is leaner than its fattier sister cut, skirt steak — to no more
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Curry In A Hurry
A 6-oz chicken breast has 50g of protein—100% of the daily value—and tons of muscle-building aminos. Curcumin, a compound found in most curries, has been shown to lower LDL cholesterol and prevent plaque buildup in arteries. With its mega vitamin A,
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Bye-bye, BMI
WHY ARE WE STILL USING an almost 200-year-old formula to determine who’s fit or fat? We’re talking, of course, about the body mass index, or BMI, developed in 1832 by a social scientist to explain variations in humans’ shapes and sizes. Unfortunately
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Moving The Goalposts
VOLKSWAGEN’S range, priced and sized, at the premium end of the sedan market is evidence that new-car purchases have nothing to do with brand loyalty or ‘staying in the family’. If that were the case, all the (many thousands) existing Polo and Golf o
Men's Fitness South Africa1 min readAutomotive
Dynamique Hatch
A 5-DOOR FAST Renault hatch. That sentence doesn’t mean a lot at first but it’s crucial if Renault wants in on the same market share as the Golf GTi – which is only sold as a 5-door model in South Africa. The latest Megane RS is therefore a car born
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Up your “score”
WHAT YOU POST and how you reach out — let’s call it your online dating MO — can be the difference between a hot love life and romantic Siberia. So we asked experts at the online dating sites eHarmony, Match, OkCupid, and Hinge to reveal which moves w
Men's Fitness South Africa1 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Bloody Good
NOBODY WILL EVER CALL a Bloody Mary a health drink. But compared with other cocktails, it’s downright pious. Built around tomato juice (which packs just 25 calories per 120ml — compared with more than 100 for sour mix — plus tons of vitamins A and C)
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Go, Go, Zombie Racer Android
Every petrolhead has dreamt of driving across the USA from coast to coast, seeing the epic sights and experiencing the long flat roads of America. Well, that dream is about to come true thanks to the latest racing offering from Ubisoft. The Crew 2 ce
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Elektra-fying
LET’S START WITH the obvious and redundant, so you know I’m not a bot: Elodie Yung is extremely beautiful and very, very sexy. And French, which is the same as sexy, really. Yung, 37, is co-starring in Marvel’s new Netflix series The Defenders, as th
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Rocket Man
IF YOUR TEE SHOT equates to a 250-metre drive, you’re probably feeling like boasting a little. Just don’t brag too loudly around Tim Burke: He owns the record for the longest drive in competition — an astounding 429 metres, or more than four rugby fi
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Focused & determined
Q What other interests do you pursue outside the gym? Although my daily lifestyle consists of basically the same, or a similar routine almost every day, which I have absolutely no problem at all with because I’m doing what I love and that excites me,
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This is Paleo
Right now my freezer is full of meat from freshly caught game is the very definition of organically fed, free-range food. that I hunt myself, then bloody my own hands butchering the carcasses into serving-size cuts. Every year my family consumes a fa
Men's Fitness South Africa1 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Bush To Table
“The typical catch yeilds about 45% meat. Most people aren’t used to fitting that much meat into a typical household freezer stacked. If packaged properly — vacuum sealed, if possible, or in wax freezer paper — you can still eat that meat two years l
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Finding Dr Yes
THE LOUSIEST DOCTOR I’VE EVER VISITED had a memorable waiting room. Everything — every pen, pencil, clipboard, clock, name tag — trumpeted the name of a big pharmaceutical company. Not once did I sit there without seeing a stream of drug reps file th
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The New-doc Quiz
1) Did it take months to book an appointment, and then forever to be seen? How long it takes to snag an appointment and how long you wait once you’re there can reveal a lot about future visits: At 10am, is he already two hours behind? Ain’t nobody go
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Russell Simmons’ New Jam
RUSSELL SIMMONS IS IN A STUDIO, but there aren’t any mics or control panels around. The rap flows have been traded for yoga flows. Simmons, 60, opened his yoga studio, Tantris, in 2016 and brought his enthusiasm for the yogi way of life to the masses
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H 2 O yeah!
When astronomers look through their telescopes for life elsewhere in the universe, they’re mostly looking for planets that might have water. Without it, life — at least, as we know it — simply can’t exist. • What goes for planets goes even more so fo
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The Industry Icon Jaco De Bruyn Wbff Pro
You’re a family man and a father of two children, how do you balance your challenging schedule between your home life, business, and competing while also travelling abroad? Yes, it’s never easy. I have been travelling like crazy over the last two yea
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HARNESS THE POWER OF YOUR muscle matrix
Smurfs. The device, called a uniaxial tensile tester, is about the size of a shoebox. With long tweezers, an American doctoral researcher at the UC Davis Functional Molecular Biology Lab plucks a freshly grown, two-week-old anterior cruciate ligament
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Get-big Fuel: Eating To Build Muscle
RULE NO. 1 Low in calories and price, tilapia is one of the best fish to go for. But it’s usually farmed, and that may pose health risks — a recent US Wake Forest University study found that farmed tilapia contains high levels of omega-6 fats, which
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Your “matrix”: reloaded
Perform this workout at least six hours before or after your normal training. For example, if you lift weights at night, complete this routine in the morning. Perform four sets of 15 reps for each exercise, moving slowly so that it takes five seconds
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EAT Outside THE LiNES
With a nutty, smoky flavour, freekeh is the bacon of whole grains (and we mean that in a good way). It has more protein than quinoa and double the fibre, and it delivers the same vision-protecting antioxidant duo (lutein and zeaxanthin) found in leaf
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Give Yourself A Chest Bump
WHAT’S INSIDE THIS MONTH 102 Get ripped After just five minutes, your abs will be begging for mercy. 103 Stair Trek Burn calories and build your legs with these step-climbing routines. 108 Sleeve buster Use body weight, a TRX, and dumbbells to add si
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Armed Attack
1) It stokes your body’s furnace Combining metabolic, static, and resistance moves fuels calorie burning for hours after you train. The resistance and stability components add strength and lean body mass; the static exercises boost strength. 2) It ke
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Scott Glenn
Q How does one play a blind knife fighter? One way to play blind is to look at someone’s mouth instead of their eyes — but that won’t help with stunts. So I use something I learned in the Marines to pick up on ambushes, called peripheral walking: Loo
Men's Fitness South Africa2 min readMedical
The Juice Is Loose
FOR BRYAN “JUICE” DAWSON, dropping 45-plus kilograms in roughly a year wasn’t about making drastic overnight changes in exercise and nutrition. “I didn’t go balls-to-the-wall at first”, says Dawson, a data analyst. “I made a couple of minor changes,

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