Kenny McDowell
PGCE (FE)
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Kenny McDowell Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Fitness, weight loss, bodybuilding
- Career Focus
- Promote health and well being to the over fifties
- Affiliation
- https://kennymcdowell.wordpress.com
My name is Kenny McDowell - 55 years young ! I was fat not so long ago and have in just 2 years transformed my physique from what it was - losing 60 lbs on the way to become a champion fitness model and qualified gym instructor.
I was working as a lecturer in a college without any sporting qualifications and after having been diagnosed by my doctor to have dangerous cholesterol levels I decided to make a lifestyle change!
I have now made a difference to my life more tha I could ever have dreamed of!
To find out how I did it and see if you can do the same - just visit My Story page.
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Do you get the massage?
Do you get the massage? 19 August 2014 How many of us train week after week battering our bodies with physical exercise never stopping to think how we "service" the muscles, tendons, ligaments etc. that are constantly being used? Would you drive your car for miles and miles without getting it serviced? I just got my car serviced this month as the service warning light had been on for a bit of time and I thought I had better not leave this! One thing you can do however to look after your body at regular intervals is deep tissue sports massage.
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ZZZZZZMA?
ZZZZZZMA? 06 August 2014 If you train and exercise regularly increased sweating or an inadequate diet can lead to losses of vitamins and minerals, particularly lower levels of zinc and magnesium. Studies have shown that less than 70% of us get enough zinc, and less than 40% get enough magnesium. Zinc deficiencies may impair immune function and decrease performance when training. Zinc also plays a crucial role in protein synthesis and cell growth. Testosterone levels can also fall without adequate zinc and has a correlation with liver function.
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Creatine an advantage?
If a supplement could help to increase your overall workout intensity and duration in the gym, leading to developing a higher level of muscle mass would this appeal to you? Supplementation of creatine has become very popular and has been proven to increase power, strength and size for bodybuilders, athletes or sports participants. Background Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid which is a non-essential dietary compound that is found naturally in foods like meat and fish.
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Training at intervals?
Training at intervals? 24 July 2014 In last week’s blog I mentioned that short intense workouts that can be done when weight training (HIT), why can’t the same principles be incorporated in to your cardiovascular fat burning program? If you could burn fat efficiently in short intense bouts of exercise why spend hours on a treadmill flicking through the channels on the built in multimedia display to catch up on the soaps?? HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is a cardiovascular exercise method combining bursts of short intense anaerobic exercise with less-intense activity.r
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Are you training to fail?
Are you training to fail? 16 July 2014 I see so many people obsessed with numbers when weight training? 5 sets of 10? 4 sets of 8?? 10 sets of 20??? If an exercise is carried out with a set number of repetitions specified beforehand, when you get to that predetermined number in your head that you have set for yourself to achieve, do you either just set the weight down or come to a halt on the machine? Have the muscle fibres been fatigued? What is the magic number?
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Lowering Cholesterol Naturally
Lowering Cholesterol Naturally Well good news! - I just got my annual cholesterol levels back this week and they are even lower sitting at 4.1. A couple of years ago my doctor had prescribed to me statins as he was conce ed about my dangerous cholesterol levels particular my triglyceride's and he had said that I was a heart attack waiting to happen! I stopped taking the statins after about six months as I didn't like how I felt and knew there would be side effects. Being a natural bodybuilder I was conce ed about it also affecting my testosterone levels.
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Can green tea benefit us as we get older?
Can green tea benefit us as we get older? Having had been diagnosed with dangerous cholesterol levels in 2012 and then being prescribed statins by my doctor, I decided against taking them as they changed how I felt and were affecting my hormone levels. I opted instead to look for something as a natural alte ative. I looked at the benefits of Green tea renowned to be "the healthiest beverage on the planet!" Background Green tea is native to China and India, made from un-oxidized leaves from the Camellia sinensis plant and is one of the less processed types of tea.
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Obesity Epidemic?
I don't know if it's because of the weight I that have lost recently that I am more aware, but I can't help but notice the composition of people all around us. I went out for a long walk yesterday on a nice summer evening and noticed how few other people were out doing the same - yet there were lots of people in cars around hardly able to move in them. I even seen a couple squeezed in to the front of a small car outside the chip shop battling for elbow room to get around their ice cream cones. There weren't any kids in the park running around or playing football?
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Prepared to compete?
Prepared to compete? 13 August 2014 It was suggested to me by a fellow competitor that it would be a good idea to have a blog article explaining what we have to go through to prepare for a contest. Do you feel that you have the time and dedication to give it a go? Is it something you would even consider doing? I've put down some things I think might be helpful to maybe help you to decide. How long to diet for?r
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My Transformation Story
My Transformation Story My name is Kenny and I'm from County Armagh in Northern Ireland. I am an IT Lecturer and Learning Technology mentor in a Further Education College. In March 2012 aged 48 I paid a visit to my doctor thinking I was a healthy individual to find out that I had dangerously high cholesterol levels, particularly my triglycerides which were at 13 and normal is 4 - potential heart attack stuff. I had been going to the gym for quite some time but was just lifting weights and getting fatter and fatter thinking I was fit... huh!
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An eggagerated problem?
Having brought my cholesterol levels down from what where considered dangerous to normal with diet and exercise, I had been avoiding eating whole eggs and restricting myself to powdered egg whites. I decided to look in to their benefits in more detail including the value of including whole eggs in my diet. Bodybuilders, sportspersons and fitness enthusiasts are, or should be aware of how important high quality protein is in muscle building processes in the body.
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Too late to weight?
As we become older - even in to our fifties or sixties is weight training something we should not be considering? Perhaps it is something that should be given up at that age if weight training is already being undertaken? Now in my sixth decade (gulp!) I feel fitter and stronger than ever due to my changed lifestyle, but are there advantages that can occur by undertaking weight training for the older person? Muscle Loss
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Hi!
My name is Kenny and I'm from County Armagh in Northern Ireland.
I am an IT Lecturer and Learning Technology mentor in a Further Education College.
In March 2012 aged 48 I paid a visit to my doctor thinking I was a healthy individual to find out that I had dangerously high cholesterol levels, particularly my triglycerides which were at 13 and normal is 4 - potential heart attack stuff.
I had been going to the gym for quite some time but was just lifting weights and getting fatter and fatter thinking I was fit... huh!
I then decided it was time to try and get some weight off for health reasons and also for a holiday that was planned the following August.
I've lost 60lbs since then and not being very tall - that’s a big bodyfat percentage for me! I did it by doing things like using online tools for calorie and food calculations- helping me work out ratios, adjust calorie intake, increase activity etc. All done at a gradual pace making small changes when needed trying to out-trick my slow metabolism.
I looked at some websites for info on fat loss and nutrition and seen that supplements were very expensive with various combinations in them. I thought why not just buy the individual components cheaply and make up my own supplementation combinations such pre or post workout drinks or fat burning stacks that were expensive otherwise.
I began doing some cardio from slow pace walking, cycling and progressing to high intensity interval sprinting!
It obviously done the trick as I managed to without great expense turn myself from a fat couch potato into a champion fitness model winning both the NIFMA Europe Physique and Athletic over 50 categories in 2014.
Having refused to take the statins I had been prescribed by my doctor I now have normal cholesterol levels!
I have also since become a fully qualified gym instructor!
You could make a change to your life - by changing what you eat, start exercising regularly and follow a healthy supplement regime.
For more info just have a look at my training or nutrition /supplement pages to see how it can be done for you too!