New Year Hacks For Healthy Muscles

Your New Year SOS team is here to help you hit the ground running in 2017

UPBEAT ACTIVE
The #fuel657 Journal
3 min readDec 27, 2016

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If, like us, you’ve just gorged on your last plate of Christmas leftovers, drained the cooking sherry and polished off your second pack of Ferrero Rocher, January 1st is the perfect time to draw a line in the sand.

The New Year is the chance to start anew, build in good habits, draw up lofty goals and start looking after yourself properly, once and for all. But where do you start?

Luckily, Upbeat are on hand with a dream team of experts to arm you with the ammo to maintain and gain healthier muscles in 2017 and beyond.

Our team includes the likes of fitness experts that’ll help you maximise those precious seconds you have before work to start your day on the right foot, genius chefs that’ll revolutionise your lunch prep to help you eat healthily and affordably at work and Guinness World Record holders who’ll help you achieve and enjoy any running challenge you take on this year.

Here’s a taste of what’s coming up.

Alex Gildea

The Coach

Personal trainer Alex Gildea conjures up creative workouts daily to ensure getting fit never gets boring. But it needn’t be pricey either. He’s designed a fun gym-free bodyweight circuit you can do at home in minutes to make maintaining healthy muscles a resolution you can stick to.

The Chef

Alex Dodman, aka @thefoodgrinder on Instagram, cuts through the celebrity chef waffle to make cooking up lean treats a piece of cake. He’ll be serving up genius lunch box recipes you can rustle up at home to make looking after your muscles while at work a delicious doddle.

Grace Beverley

The Weightlifter

Oxford University student and Instagram star Grace Beverley is an advocate of the power of weightlifting for women, but knows getting back in the gym can be a daunting time in January, whatever your gender, whatever your experience. She reveals her three golden rules for hitting the ground running in 2017, inside and outside the weights room.

The Journalist

Sam Rider is the editor of Upbeat’s #fuel657 Journal, bringing you the motivation and inspiration to look after your muscles so you can enjoy the things in life that truly matter to you. As the former fitness editor of Men’s Fitness, he’s road tested all manner of exercise gear and gadgets, and with the January sales in full swing he’ll recommend his top three to help kickstart your 2017.

Keep your eyes on our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram channels over the next 12 days, as well as here on The #fuel657 Journal, to start 2017 with a bang.

Remember, every muscle matters. Join our community and tag your posts with #fuel657

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The #fuel657 Journal

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