Chicken Livers

One of my favourite foods for protein is Chicken Livers. To many this is not the nicest meal available but for me Chicken livers with onion is an amazing and tasty dish that also supplies a high amount of protein. Oh and its very cheap! for 400 grams of Chicken Livers in the UK its 99 pence (about $1.50 in USD).

The nutritional facts are clear, for 100 grams of Chicken Livers your body gets

25g - Protein
5g - Fat (1.5 grams saturated)
0.1g - Carbohydrates

Chicken Livers are also very high in Iron, Thiamin, Zinc, Copper, Maganese, Vitamins A and C.

If you like eating liver then I suggest buying Chicken Liver and having it as a meal once in a while. The only downsides to Chicken Livers is that they do have a high level of Cholesterol and chicken liver is also high in Vitamin A. Vitamin A is great but in liver the levels of Vitamin A exceeds daily recommended amounts which if you do regularly can be toxic.

Deadlift Technique Execution

Today I wanted to mention the importance of deadlift technique execution. I have seen many weightlifters lift in this exercise with such bad form.

I once trained with a partner who could not lift as much as I could, what he would try and do was lift heavier than he physically could. He did this to try and look like he was lifting closer to the weight I lift which I used to tell him he shouldn't.

What would happen is that by lifting the heavier weight he would end up with appalling form from a rounded back and no use of the legs, it worried me as I thought one day he would injure himself.

With this in mind I just want to reiterate the importance of using the correct technique in the deadlift with correct form and lower weight. Please take a moment to visit this deadlift technique execution run down to make sure you are carry out the deadlift correctly.

To visit the run down on the deadlift click here

Muscle Fitness Test

We would all love to know how well our training is going and how our muscle fitness is responding to what we are putting them through.....well now Im posting a very simple and fun way you can test your muscle fitness at home!

Okay this is simple, firstly you need to time yourself to see how many full press ups (no knees on the floor please) you can complete in two minutes.

Next you need to time how many situps (full situps no cheating with crunches please) you can complete in two minutes.

Now combine your total together for both tests and use the results below to see you muscle fitness...

145+ - Amazing shape
120 - 145 - Very good
90 - 120 - Good
70 - 90 - Average
Below 70 - Very poor you need work

So how well did you do? Be honest and post a comment with your muscle fitness test results....if you feel abit embarrassed post them anonymously!