March 2022

Men's Fitness South Africa

The new measure of success

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Men’s Fitness South Africa
Dirk Steenekamp dirk@mensfitness.co.za MANAGING EDITOR Jason Fleetwood - jason@dhsmedia.co.za FOOD EDITOR Izelle Hoffman - izelle@dhsmedia.co.za GROOMING EDITOR Greg Forbes - greg@dhsmedia.co.za GAMING EDITOR Andre Coetzer - andre@dhsmedia.co.za TECH
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Advisory Board
CJ Murphy, M.F.S. Owner, Total Performance Sports, Everett, MA Jim Smith, C.P.P.S. Owner, Diesel Strength & Conditioning Zach Even-Esh Owner, Underground Strength Gym, Edison, NJ Bob Harper Fitness expert; trainer, NBC’s The Biggest Loser Chris Powel
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Breakthroughs
Good news: To live longer, you just need to spend more time with other people. What’s the catch? To do it, you’ll have to buck the trend. A new study shows that not only are we becoming more socially isolated, but that this also raises our risk of dy
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Exercise Your Health Options
As we age, our diets often get better, and yet our waistlines still expand; all because we’re exercising less, a study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found. So to keep extra kilograms away, it’s more important to maintain high levels of p
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What Winners Know
Biogen’s first vegetable energy gel with RedNite, a registered trademark ingredient with clinical trials to prove ergogenic genic benefits in trained athletes with a lower serving. RedNite is the world’s first proven beetroot powder standardised for
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An Avocado A Day Keeps The LDL Away
In a recent study done in the United States, overweight subjects were given three cholesterol lowering diets with the same number of calories. One diet that was low in fat, and two that were moderately high in fat and included either avocado or nuts
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And Speaking Of Sitting All Day…do This Instead
To stay active without bolting from your chair and running laps around the office every hour, try this amazingly easy solution: Work while standing on a Level from www.fluidstance.com. A rocker like platform with a wooden deck and aluminium frame, th
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Curried Rats Helping Cure PTSD?
Could an ingredient in curry erase scary memories? Scientists at the City University of New York (USA) gave rats electric jolts, and played a sound at the same time, so they’d link the two. After a while, they played the sound without the shocks, and
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Brain Breakthroughs
Speaking more than one language doesn’t just jazz up your online dating profile or C.V, it also changes how you see the world. “Language is a vehicle for thinking and reasoning”, says Emanuel Bylund, PhD, and author of the study in Psychological Scie
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Trying To Remember Can Make You Forget
Scientists have found proof that the very act of remembering some things is what causes us to forget others, Nature Neuroscience reports. Subjects in a study conducted by the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, were shown various imag
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Rice Goes Down!
Rice, the staple of peasants since 2500 B.C (and bodybuilders since Arnold and his pals started popping their pecs on Muscle Beach) still feeds billions around the globe. Now it can do that with even fewer calories. Preparing rice in a specific way u
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Brain Food
The cups of dairy a day doesn’t just help athletes recover properly after high-intensity exercise and prevent osteoporosis. It also boosts brain levels of the antioxidant glutathione, which fights Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other diseases. SOURCE:
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The Guy’s Guide To Shopping The Farmers’ Market
places, full of foods you can’t pronounce and people who seem to have way too much free time on their hands. But they’re also full of high-impact foods, and ensure fresh seasonal eating. “The more variety you pack into your diet”, says nutritionist S
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Blood And Muscle
Ever since that time you tied your self up with rubber bands as a kid, you’ve been taught that cutting off the circulation to your arms or legs is a bad thing (fun as it may be). But research shows that mild, strategic blood-flow restriction, or BFR,
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Liquid Sun
Rum has been the de facto drink of summer for more than 500 years. Nobody knows that better than Sean Cartwright, Senior Director of beverages at Atlantis, Paradise Island. Bartenders at the resort serve more than 21 000 rum cocktails each week, that
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E-Tread Lightly
“E-waste” is the catch all for discarded electronic products, but the term is most often used in reference to gadgets like cell phones (It’s a fact that Americans replace their cell phones about every 18 months), printers, tablets, televisions, and c
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Don’t Fear The Pizza
Great pizza doesn’t have to be a greasy mess of fatty ingredients and empty calories. In fact, with the right toppings (nutritional powerhouses like kale, sweet potato, rocket, and almonds) you can rest assured that you’re fueling your body with the
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Invest And Rest
Most people have heard about hedge funds, but would struggle to explain what exactly they are. Now, however, it might be a good time to brush up on your hedge fund knowledge; as new regulations have made them accessible to retail investors. Until rec
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The Indispensable Dozen
With just these 12 foods (and a few pantry staples), easy, delicious, and creative meals can be yours. For more facts about each (and surprising ways to use them) see the following pages. 1) Whole chicken2) Sweet potatoes3) Quinoa4) Apples5) Tri-tip
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Bigger, Faster, Stronger
Even if their goal isn’t getting huge, runners often make the mistake of doing no lifting at all (and as big-time endurance guys like Dean Karnazes will tell you, that’s not only wrong—it’s just plain dumb). With these three exercises, combined with
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You’re Not Born To Run
(Here’s how to learn…) Shorts: BROOKS • • • “Do you hear that?” asks Pasquale Manocchia, his face contorting into an ugly wince. It’s as if he’s just heard fingernails screeching across a chalkboard. We’re seated in his office high above a 13 000 squ
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Ask Men’s Fitness
Beer cocktails may have been all the rage last year, but “this summer’s going to be about gin”, according to Prairie Rose; a USA New York City-based cocktail and spirits blogger, and expert. Why? For starters, everyone’s favourite gin cocktail, the G
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A King Stays A King
Welcome back Anthony, it’s a pleasure to have you make the cover again. You’ve come such a long way in such a short space of time and it seems there’s nothing you can’t do. How has your own personal fitness journey been since the last time we spoke a
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Build A “Baywatch” Body
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s physique already has legions of fans, but the transformation of co-star Zac Efron (who shot to fame in the teen-film hit High School Musical) has shocked the world. According to Efron’s trainer, Patrick Murphy, the actor r
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Eat Like Efron
Zac Efron dieted for his Baywatch role with pizza and cheeseburgers; just kidding (you wish!). In reality, he ate ultra-healthy for a transformation that took only 12 weeks. “I implemented an allorganic whole-food diet”, says his trainer, Patrick Mur
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Eat Food—burn Fat!
The fastest way to lose fat is to adjust your diet, not do more cardio. And that burn fat for you while enjoying delicious, gourmet meals with these recipes made from ingredients that offer potent, and science-backed, fat-burning benefits. We’ve got
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Your New Colossal Chest
We love the barbell bench press as much as you do; but just because you’ve been doing it every Monday night since high school doesn’t mean you can’t change it up every once in a while. Pressing with dumbbells is safer for your shoulders. It activates
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Growth Potential
For as long as man has wanted a better body he has been looking for a wonderdrug that’ll give it to him. Of course, there’s no substitute for hard work and consistency when it comes to building muscle and losing fat. But the idea of a potent elixir t
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A Six-pack In Six Weeks
It’s been the Men’sFitness stance for years that anybody, including you, can get ripped abs. Even if you have less-than-Herculean genetics and just a second-rate space to train in. We’ll prove it again with this program to build six-pack abs and more
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Don’t Spoil Your Gains
We won’t lie: If you want to get a sharp six-pack in a month and a half, you need to eat clean and steer clear of the hooch. Once you achieve your goal, then all bets are off. Luckily, you can keep most of that hard-won definition with these tips fro
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NATE & VICKY HAMPTONTHOUGHT
Could you start by telling us a little bit about yourself and what got you started on your fitness journey? I honestly started lifting weights in 9th grade because I was too shy to speak to girls so I was hoping having muscles would attract their att
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French Flair Gets Muddy
Pick any sales month and out of the top ten performing vehicles, three will be pickups. Look a little further down that list you’ll also see newcomers like the GWM P Series and Mahindra Scorpio putting up a brave fight too. So if you’re an automaker
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The Fantastic Four
I t’s a balance between evolution and revolution once again. Essentially the S3’s anatomy hasn’t changed since it was launched in 1999 and neither has its market position as a sophisticated and cultured hot hatch that doesn’t sacrifice premium niceti
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A Feast From The East
Size is one of the Jolion’s many merits. Large enough to rub shoulders with a VW T-Cross, Hyundai Venue or Suzuki Vitara but you’re never likely to feel that it’s ‘too much car’ once you’ve dropped the kids off at school. It’s an SUV for those who de

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