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Martin's Blogs

Martin is asked to write diet plans for celebrity fitness DVDs.

Martin appears on ‘When Diets Go Wrong’ on BBC3

BBC3 Appearance - Martin has recently filmed for a documentary entitled 'When diets go wrong, watch our for it on BBC3.

Marin writes for the Daily Mail

Madonna's muscles are not particularly oversized compared with, say, an Olympic athlete, but what is unusual is how toned and well-defined they are. I work a lot with body builders and they actually look very similar to this - like very, very lean athletes.

Welcome to Mac-Nutrition

Mac-Nutrition, the Home Page of Martin MacDonald, exists to provide information on all aspects of training and nutrition for both optimal health and performance; information designed to help readers reach their goals whether they are performance, health or aesthetics related.

Food recipes, blog entries, reviews of recent research and articles on training and nutrition will be regularly added to the site. You can get these sent to you via the email newsletter; get this by signing up at the bottom of the page or get blog entries via the RSS feed.

A forum will be uploaded shortly which will act as a Q&A area for free scientific, fact based information.

Latest Additions :

New Article : Body Composition for Performance or Vanity by Martin MacDonald - The most frequent question asked by athletes and non-athletes alike, other than “How much can you bench?”, has got to be “How can I get lean?” So, here is a brief article that will outline a few things that can help and hopefully dispel a few myths on the subject… Read more

New Article : Got the best training programme? Now maximise its results! by Martin MacDonald - The ISSN released a position statement on nutrient timing to ‘enhance recovery and tissue repair following high-volume exercise, augmented muscle protein synthesis and improve mood states.’ They came up with eight key points, here is a summary of these points with a few comments of my own... Read more

Martin's Latest Blog :

A lovely new study on eating lots of protein...

Conducted down at the well respected lab of Dr. Tipton at Birmingham University this new study again gives an insight into the importance of protein for athletes. Unfortunately, it does not give us any information on the difference between 1.8g of protein /kg BW vs 2.3g/kg BW however it at least confirms quite conclusively what 'we' already knew. Mettler et al.,...

NEWS:

Hannah Waterman releases her fitness DVD featuring Martin - click here to find out more

The Sun asks Martin for 10 dieting myths for their New Years day paper - click here

Men's Health New Year issue to include Martins '6-pack' tips.

The Daily Record interview Martin on story about Hannah Waterman

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