Men's Fitness South Africa

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

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Men’s Fitness South Africa

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

Hitting the mark • Shooter star Ryan Phillippe’s style of training targets fat loss and lean-muscle development

The easy path to gains • Want to build muscle and gain strength without working “too” hard? Then cluster training is for you.

Destination: Marathon • Once our resident running expert figured out the perfect cure for mile-20 blues—an inspiring new landscape—his running life was changed forever. Here, he outlines everything you need to know to run a successful race far from home.

Blade runner • Turn your trusty blender into an ultrafast, superhealthy around-the-clock meal maker

Release your inner foodie

Salt shake-up • Dial in your sodium intake and you’ll…

Fitness Breakthroughs

Health

Get ready for rush hour! • Maximise your thrills with our guide to the best the outdoors has to offer

Join the resistance • It’s hot. You sweat. Deal with it by taking the burn outside with this 20-minute resistance-band workout.

Stroke it • Hone your swimming technique with these top dip tips BY ADAM BIBLE

Comfort Food Made Easy • Izelle Hoffman is SA’s newest rising star in the culinary industry and although she never formally trained as a chef, growing up in a household where great food was always a comfort and source of nourishment, it seemed like a natural progression for her to take inspiration from the dishes she grew up with turning them into a modern, playful and healthy experience.

The foodie dad

Whiskey a-go-go • 7 new ways to booze it up on a hot summer day

Lisa Raleigh • Rebounding to success

The gig picture • Can you thrive—or at least not starve—in the modern freelance job market? Maybe…

Goodbye, my friend • Breaking up is hard to do—especially when it involves severing ties with a buddy you used to be tight with

Shorty the barber • Enlightened advice from grooming expert Shorty Maniace

The Next BURGER BOOM! • Spicy chicken? Check. Black-bean veggie? Yup. Pork and shrimp dim sum? Believe it, man! Here we present, with the help of some of the world’s top burger chefs, the newest, most adventurous, most ab-friendly burgers you could ever flip onto a grill—something we recommend you do immediately.

protein. –CH 2 CH 2 SCH 3 • We all know protein is the single most important building block of muscle growth. But, amazingly, science is only now discovering exactly how much protein we should be getting and—just as important—when we should be getting it. –(CH2) 4 NH2

PROTEIN POWERHOUSES –CH2PH • The greatest protein sources on the planet: packed with muscle-priming leucine, low in calories, and containing all nine essential amino acids

YOUR PROTEIN POWER CALCULATOR —CH2CH(CH3)2 • What, when, and how much to eat, in four simple steps

DAN CHERKASSKY

Moving parts • Want to improve mobility, lose weight, and enhance your athleticism? Keep the iron on the rack and train using just your own body weight.

Shape up • New York City personal trainer and Performix athlete Andy Speer, C.S.C.S., reveals five tips for sculpting the ideal summer body

BREAKING GOOD • Make a “perfect food” even better with these healthy recipes

Better abs, no back pain • Use these workouts to rip up your midsection without tearing up your lower back

Danger: smoothie ahead

NUTRIENT OF THE MONTH Whey • Fuelling up can help you drop kilos and...