January- February 2023

Men's Fitness South Africa

The new measure of success

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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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Men’s Fitness
PUBLISHER & CEO 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@dhs
Men's Fitness South Africa1 min readDiet & Nutrition
What Winners Know
■ After a well-deserved break and a more than likely very enjoyable festive season, you’ll want to rejuvenate your body and start your new diet with a fully cleansed metabolic and digestive system. We recommend Pureberry’s Weight-Loss Cleanse to incr
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Gun Show
Sets: 3 Reps: 8–10 Rest: 60 sec Hold an EZ-curl bar with a shoulder-width grip. Keeping your upper arms against your sides, curl the bar until your biceps are fully contracted. Sets: 3 Reps: 10–12 Rest: 60 sec Hold a dumbbell in each hand with your p
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Seize The Daylight!
Morning guys get out at the butt crack of dawn. Day guys try to squeeze something in at lunch. (Good luck with that.) Late guys hit it once the work whistle blows. But it’s all good as long as the workouts are consistent, right? Maybe not. According
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Get Big By Going “Barefoot”
Think the whole “barefoot” sneaker trend is just for runners? Think again. According to T researchers at Hong Kong’s Poly University, wearing minimalist shoes while exercising can make your legs and feet significantly stronger than wearing regular sn
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Eggs Boost Vitamin In Salads
Eating a big, healthy salad that’s chockfull of a variety of colourful veggies — kale, E peppers, broccoli, tomatoes, carrots — for lunch is an easy way to get a wide range of essential daily nutrients. And a study from 2015 revealed that simply addi
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To HIIT It Big, Crank Up The Tunes
Scratch most “regular exercisers” and underneath you’ll find someone who tried HIITS (high-intensity interval training) once and just couldn’t hack it — the short-but-extreme bursts of effort can be daunting for fitness pros and sweating-like-a-pig n
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Two Minutes Of Hell
Styling by Christina Simonetti; Grooming by Matthew Tuozzoli/Atelier Management using Dior Homme ■
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Pain-free Push-ups
Push-ups are, undeniably, one of the best exercises for building a rock-hard core and improving total-body conditioning. But as any military grunt or CrossFit devotee can tell you, if you’re going big on push-ups, you need to take care of your wrists
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Screen Grabbers
The greatest invention in romance since condoms, dating apps are pure T efficiency: thousands of women, no long profiles to read, no grammar mistakes to harrumph over, nothing but the essentials: picture, age, first name, and a fortune cookie. If you
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Getting Down In Dubai
Dubai has a well-earned reputation for its rapid progression and development. The iconic city with its sprawling skyscrapers brings truth to the saying “if you build it, they will come”, and indeed, they, the tourists, are coming. If you’re going on
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Firdous’s Usn Supplements Picks:
• PHEDRACUT LAVA X: IT’S AN EXTREME THERMOGENIC CAPSULE WHICH NOT ONLY HELPS TO SHRED FAT QUICKLY, BUT ALSO GIVES ME A BOOST OF ENERGY. • USN BCAA AMINO LEAN: IT PROMOTES MUSCLE STAMINA, STRENGTH AND RECOVERY, BOOSTS MUSCLE TRAINING INTENSITY AND END
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Firdous Asmodien. The All-rounder
Q: Tell us a bit about yourself and your history as an athlete. A: I’m a Physiotherapist by profession, running two physiotherapy departments at two specialised TB hospitals. As a child growing up, I was very athletic and active. I played all sports
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Zero Sugar? Zero Problem.
Zero Sugar Diet, is an in-depth eating plan specifically designed to detox your body, bring your hormones into balance, heal your liver, and take away food cravings while delivering rapid weight loss. Generally speaking, it works by doing one thing v
Men's Fitness South Africa2 min readRegional & Ethnic
Pasta From The garden
Rejoice, fellas: You needn’t banish your favourite bowl of gloppity goodness to cheat days, or — even more depressing — load your go-to sauce on some underwhelming pasta understudy (see: “whole wheat”, anything labelled “gluten-free”). Easy-to-make s
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Squeeze The Life Into Your Juice
Calling all juicing fiends: If you haven’t invested in a “cold press” (aka masticating) juicer yet, do it now. That’s right: Now. Here’s why: Juicers come in two basic types. The most common, the “centrifugal” juicer, grinds and spins fruits and vegg
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Two Rights And A Wrong
RIGHT! ■ Not all pasta pots are created equal: Our biggest pet peeve is a too-short drainer insert that doesn’t fit enough noodles for a group. The Legend Euro Chef Stainless-Steel 24cm Stockpot, however, is the right size and has a clear lid so you
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Super Cut
Sure, Swedish-born chef Gabriel Hedlund is a Michelin star winner. But seeing his lean physique and massive bi’s, it’s words like “fitness freak” not “full-time foodie” that instantly spring to mind. One of his secrets: the vegetable-heavy, intrinsic
Men's Fitness South Africa1 min readRegional & Ethnic
Ask A Butcher
■ “The merlot steak — some call it the velvet steak — is incredibly lean, but it’s also a beefy and extremely flavourful, quick-cooking cut. It’s roughly 450g and comes from the heel of the round, or the back leg. It’s something like a flank steak bu
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The Flab Blaster
■ If you make the right meal (and drink) choices, get enough sleep, and do resistance training (to boost calorie burning), then, yes, three hours of cardio a week should do it. While you’re at it, try these tweaks to ignite extra fat burning: DURATIO
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Small Change. Big Difference.
NOW, WE’D NEVER, EVER, try to stand between you and your first marathon, a major weight loss, or the job of your dreams. Thinking big—and having big goals—is important, especially as you set your sights on a new year. That said, sometimes thinking a
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The Five Biggest New Year’s Resolution Killers
“Get in shape!” is too ambiguous; keep ’em concrete. If you want to gain muscle, set a goal of “gaining muscle”. Period. Shit happens. Accept it. Don’t give up on losing 10 kilograms just because you had two cheat days in a row. Get back on your plan
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Conquer Your Cubicle
SO YOU FINALLY persuaded HR to buy you that standing desk. Congrats! (Also: Welcome to 2023.) Maybe you’ve invested in a stress ball, tomato timer, foam roller, and standard-issue sound-cancelling headphones, too. This is all great stuff to improve y
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Three Office-productivity Tips From (the Other!) Mark Ellwood
If you’re using them to avoid interruptions, don’t, says Ellwood. It’s better to attack confrontations head-on and gauge the level of urgency. “Ask them if it’s urgent, how much time it will take, and then pick a time frame when you’ll respond”, he s
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Juice up YOUR SKIN
This Moisturising SPF15 Cream for Men is a luxurious day cream which will leave your skin feeling soft and cared for. R199, BEAUCIENCE.CO.ZA An all-in-one anti-ageing eye cream, formulated with Shea Butter and Caffeine to intensely hydrate the eye ar
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The Friend connection
There’s a terrible moment in every guy’s life, usually somewhere in his mid-30s, when he realises that he and his best friends have begun to drift away from one another. You know how it is. Those weekly rounds of beer? They’re not even monthly anymor
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How Not To Suck At Friendship
When you Google the words male friendship, you get articles with headlines like “Do Men Suck at Friendship?” Well, do they? Men do not suck at friendship. Men’s friendships just look different from women’s friendships. There’s a myth that somehow bec
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Win The War On sugar
IF YOU ASKED THE 25-YEAR-OLD ME TO PREDICT WHAT my 40s would look like, I would have used just one word to describe them: fat. Fat was my inevitable destiny. I’d grown up as a lonely latchkey kid with a serious sugar addiction; my best friends were t
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No Way To Sugarcoat This!
Alamy (7); Press images: McDonald's; Chili's; Applebee's; Dunkin Donuts ■
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Your Break-in-case-of-emergency Health Foods
A simple, healthy diet — one that’s high in fibre and low in sugar, preservatives, A and unhealthy fats — is all that’s needed to keep your body’s inner workings as smooth and sleek as the day they rolled off the assembly line. But for those rare (we
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The Sugar Glossary
Also known as table sugar to you and me, it’s the granular stuff, teaspoon or two you add to your coffee, those fine white crystals dusted over a deep-fried koeksister. It’s a slightly complicated molecule, so our bodies don’t really want to have to
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Wolves Not Sheep
It’s a pleasure to have you, Josh, could you tell us a little bit about where you’re from and what your background is in the industry? Thank you, the pleasure is mine! I was born in Sherman Oaks, California and then raised in Joshua Tree which is ext
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YOUR PERFECT body GAME PLAN 2023
LET’S NOT KID EACH OTHER: AS MUCH AS WE HIT THE GYM TO FEEL AWESOME, LIVE LONGER, COMPETE WITH OUR BUDDIES, RELIEVE stress, and, of course, have a damn good time slinging giant pieces of steel, it doesn’t hurt that working out makes us look damn good
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The Protein Project
No question about it: Protein is king. But more isn’t necessarily better — there’s a limit to how much your body can use in a setting (about 30g). Plus, to avoid breaking down muscle protein, you need to pair it with just enough carbs (yeah, the macr
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Police Action
One of the first things Officer Rob Capezio learnt in the police academy was that a strong, fit body is crucial to meeting the demands of the job. It’s a lesson that stuck with him. From that moment on, fitness was core to his daily routine. But when
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Your Total Body Reconstruction
Let’s say your goal for 2023 isn’t quite as ambitious as looking like a perfectly carved statue. (If it is, see “Your Perfect Body Game Plan”, page 95). If you just want to get back in amazing shape, feel great, and lose kilograms (let’s face it: tha

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