#11 - Hermann Schroder - Get Your Body Wedding Ready

Mr Muscles Hermann Schroder is a sports scientist/personal trainer from Cape Town who guarantees results! We talk about planning and how to get your body wedding ready, and how to keep that healthy lifestyle going after the wedding. His expertise lies in the science of training – Health, fitness and a balanced lifestyle is his passion! Our in-house fitness fanatic Marlé sinks her teeth into the juicy details and sifts through all of the online fitness noise to get the answers we need.

Topics discussed

How his provincial rugby career led him to personal training
His chance appearance on Expresso leading to building his brand
Working with celebrities
Nutrition vs Training
His opinion on Ketogenic/HFLC eating plans
How to differentiate between fads and real healthy choices
How often we should be eating
Detox – Good or Bad?
He explains what eating clean means
Why exercise is important in your weight loss and fitness journey
Pre-workout and post-workout foods
Protein shakes – Whey, Mass builders etc
How to fit exercise into a busy lifestyle
Effectively controlling calories
Cardio vs Weight training
How to prevent injury
Muscle stiffness/soreness vs injury
Muscle strength testing
Emergency weight loss
How to maintain your weight loss after the wedding

Weekly discovery

BrandRocket is South Africa’s newest technological offering to the wedding industry. Think about the convenience of an instant photo booth, with the hipster, millennial use of hashtags and Instagram – and you get Instabooth! An instant printer that uses the hashtag you give your guests to use, which will print a polaroid-like photo the instant the image is posted to social media – what a fabulous way to entertain your guests and get extra behind the scenes memories of your wedding day!

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Next Week’s Episode:

Riaan Geldenhuys (@Cape DJs) – Dazzling DJ – Riaan gives us advice on how to choose your wedding DJ and the wedding entertainment plus different types of wedding tents and the pros and cons of having a tented wedding reception.

Guests in upcoming episodes of the Pink Book Wedding Podcast: