BODYPOWER

Everybody gets excited about spring and summer season. Finally an end to the cold weather which forced us to turn up everywhere looking like the Michelin man. A stop to our mole-like hermet lives which have been confined to the warmth of our living rooms and hibernating in our cosy-snug beds. 

Spring/ Summer = Easter, tons of chocolate and ice cream, summer holidays, colourful fashion trends - getting to wear pretty dresses, skirts..., BBQ's, beer gardens,  gorgeous fields of flowers and intense green grass, clear blue skies and sandy beaches, music festivals, watermelon (who eats watermelon during the winter?),  picnics in the park, camping... schools out, uni's finished... but, for me, the one thing I look forward to the most as winter comes to a halt is the BODYPOWER EXPO.

BODYPOWER is one the biggest fitness exhibitions in Europe; with this year's expo (it's 7th year running) attracting over 90,000 fitness enthusiasts, athletes, experts and businesses. Picture a little child excited about Christmas combined with being allowed to eat chocolate and candy for dinner, going to Disney Land, meeting Peppa Pig and getting to stay up late to watch TV... that's how excited I was about BODYPOWER.  I didn't have an advent calendar but I definitely kept count of how many sleeps I had to it.  I picked up so many goodies, met legends and got to enjoy some time away with my favourite person ever (my boyfriend is you were wondering ;) )

Here's some snaps of my awesome weekend and 12 little insights of what I came away with...

1) Hulk Holgan still looks exactly the same.

2) Eddie Hall - the guy who broke the world record for the heaviest deadlift (that's 462kg by the way) is HUGE.

3) Muscle Food now sell a virtually low fat cheese which kicks regular cheddar in the face.

4) Blend Bros have created a protein sauce - genius right? Think Tai protein green curry sauce or tomato.

5) Quest bars new mint choc chip tastes amazing. Can Quest ever do wrong?

6) Scitech's protein delight (that's protein with gourmet fruit, chocolate and cake pieces in) should be owned by everyone.

7) Bulk powders have created a protein hot chocolate, but, not just any ordinary protein hot chocolate - they have released a white hot chocolate which tastes like a melted milky bar.

8) R-bars for healthy clean snack. Reflex Nutrition have released a yummy range of protein bars and flapjacks.

9) Fit Men Cook - one the top apps at the moment - will show you just how eating healthy can be fun, tasty and awesome. He'll also show you how you make a top pizza using avocado, chips using avocado and even a chocolate pudding. All heil avocado.

10) Dr Zaks have joined the nut butter bandwagon and they did good. Flavours comes in salted caramel, cherry bakewell, white chocolate... drooling?)

11) Gym Chefs herbs and spices will add some flavour back to your 'clean' eating.

12) In need of new gym clothes? Check out V3 Apparel, VQ Fitness, Vain Train, Serious About Lifting and Frontline Apparel. There's more out there than GYMSHARK guys!