Men's Fitness South Africa

The performance magazine with training, nutrition and relationship advice to help you realise your full potential.

Men’s Fitness South Africa

Advisory Board • SOMETIMES, EVEN WE NEED ADVICE. HERE’SWHO WE ASK.

What winners know • Live smarter, look better, and play harder with tips from Men’s Fitness

Breakthroughs

Rice goes down!

Exercise your health options • There’s nothing wrong with working out to look great. The true benefits of exercise are the ways it can make your health do a complete 180. Here are four ways working out can improve your life, and one important way it can’t.

AND SPEAKING OF SITTING ALL DAY…DO THIS INSTEAD

An avocado a day keeps the LDL away

Curried rats helping cure PTSD?

Brain Breakthroughs • Learning a new language opens up new worlds

Trying to remember can make you forget

Brain Food • This month’s smart-eats leaderboard:

THE GUY’S GUIDE TO SHOPPING THE FARMERS’ MARKET • Swap the produce aisle for farm-to-table and your body will thank you

Blood and muscle • For muscle growth, restricting blood flow safely may be the next best thing to weight training itself

Liquid sun • Celebrate the return of summer with these five modern twists on the classic rum drink

e-Tread lightly • WHEN IT COMES to getting rid of our old electronics, it’s pretty much a Wild West freefor-all, with few laws, lots of bad guys, and everyone out for themselves. Despite a recent rise in eco-consciousness seen in bans on plastic bags and regulations phasing out incandescent light bulbs in favour of more energy-efficient bulbs, we haven’t really even begun to address the problem. Let’s start fixing that right now.

INVEST AND REST • Now almost anyone can invest in a hedge fund

Don’t fear the pizza • Can a cheese and sauce covered pie can be healthy? Damn straight it can—and we’ve proved it with these four cleaner, leaner versions that will satisfy your cravings but keep you looking and feeling great.

The indispensable dozen • KEEP THESE 12 FOODS ON YOUR GROCERY LIST AND YOU’LL ALWAYS HAVE AN ARRAY OF SIMPLE, SURPRISINGLY TASTY, AND IMPRESSIVELY CREATIVE MEALS RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

You’re not born to run • Why do more than 42 million Americans injure themselves every year running? Well, if you believe the world’s top biomechanical experts and elite coaches, it’s not for lack of conditioning. It’s not because we’re wearing the wrong shoes, either. It’s because no-one taught us how to run. See our correspondent gets a crash course in Running 101.

BIGGER, FASTER, STRONGER • The three exercises guaranteed to make you a better runner

Ask Men’s Fitness

A KING STAYS A KING • This issue we’re hanging out with a friend and one of the most trusted experts in the fitness industry, Anthony Tumminello who is truly a man of many talents, and now, he is on a mission to help others better themselves every day. Anthony’s broad skills-base and knowledge helps him better understand how to combine diet and workout routines to maximize results. He’s a nutritionist, strength coach, businessman and the inventor of a unique training program called Method Training. Here, Anthony gives us his top tips and advice on how we can level up our own fitness game! Check it out!

Build a “Baywatch” body • Use the workout that got Zac Efron pumped for Baywatch to create your own sun-and-sand worthy physique

Eat Like Efron • THE DIET THAT CREATES AN ACTION-HERO BODY

Eat food—burn fat! • Five dishes that melt fat right off. All you have to do is eat them.

YOUR NEW COLOSSAL CHEST • What’s the smartest, simplest way to get the upper body you’ve always wanted? Use some dumbbells and this routine.

Growth potential •...