Perhaps your accessories collection is so vast it needs its own closet. Or perhaps you’re one tie, one watch type who can barely remember if “accessory” has one S or two. Either way, men’s sunglasses are a required part of your wardrobe.

Buying sunnies is a high-stakes purchase. Not only is it important to protect your peepers from the sun, but the right pair can also become a trademark of your personal style. Unfortunately, so can the wrong one.

Measure Your Face

Treat your face like your latest DIY project. Measuring the dimensions of your face will help you get an idea of its size and shape. Note down the following numbers:

• Cheekbone to cheekbone. Place the end of a tape measure just below your eye. This is the top of your cheekbone. Measure to the same point on the other side of your face.
• Jaw line. Locate the ends of your jawbone below your ears. Measure from one side to the other, around the bottom of your face.
• Face length. Measure a straight line from the centre of your hairline, down over the front of your nose, to the bottom of your chin.
• Forehead width. Place the tape measure halfway between your eyebrows and hair. Measure the width of your forehead from one side of your hairline to the other.

Compare your measurements and use them to calculate your face shape.

Determine Your Face Shape

Face shapes are divided into a handful of common categories. Once you know which group your face falls into, you can easily shop for flattering frames.

• Round. Round faces are characterised by a narrow forehead and curved jaw line. Defined angles are in short supply.
• Square. Square faces are similar in length and width across the face, with a broad forehead and a strong jaw line.
• Oval. Oval faces have gently rounded, largely even features, making them well-suited to almost any kind of adornment.
• Oblong. Oblong faces, also called rectangular, are long and narrow with minimal angles.
• Diamond. Diamond faces feature a narrow jawline and defined chin. The dominant cheekbones are the widest part of the face.
• Heart. Heart-shaped faces, sometimes called triangle, narrow strongly at the chin and are widest at the temples.

Know Your Styles

Like faces, sunglasses also fall into common categories.

• Aviator. Aviators are an instantly recognisable style. The aviator frame is metal and defined by clean lines. Colours are typically kept simple and lenses are a teardrop shape.
• Rectangle. The frame of rectangular glasses is wider around the lens than it is tall.
• Shield. Shield sunglasses are dominated by a single large lens that offers maximum protection from the sun.
• Square. Share-shaped frames feature the same straight sides and defined angles of retangular frames, but with less length.
• Wrap. Wrap-around frames are lightweight and streamlined for an aerodynamic, athletic look.
• Wayfarer. The Wayfarer is a classic shape that’s been worn since the 1950s. Versatile and timeless, there’s a reason it’s lasted so long.

Putting It All Together

And now, the moment you’ve been waiting for. Armed with knowledge of your face shape and popular frame styles, it’s time to put it all together.

• Round. A round face lacks natural definition, so look for sunglasses that add it. Angular styles will help elongate your temples and lengthen your face. Steer clear of round frames that mimic your face shape.
• Square. Strong natural features call for larger frames and minimal detailing that won’t compete for attention. Aviators are a good choice.
• Oval. The oval is considered the holy grail of face shapes. Almost anything will suit, just keep proportion in mind. Any frames will look off if they’re too large or too small for your face.
• Oblong. Choose round or square frames to offset the long, narrow line from forehead to chin. Stick to frames that don’t extend past the widest part of your face.
• Diamond. Accentuate your prominent cheekbones by choosing deep frames that are more vertical than horizontal. A hint of cat-eye will be flattering to your face’s natural angles.
• Heart. Avoid sunglasses that sit high on the face and accentuate your broad brow line. Retro, rectangular styles balance your pointed chin.

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Let’s face it, most guys are lazy bastards on their best days. Any one of you (myself included) would prefer to rock up on the night without putting in the work.

But behind the watches, schmick tailoring, and shoes that cost a fortnight’s pay are the foot soldiers of the male wardrobe. These items clean, repair, and protect. Without them, it’s easy to turn into the guy that always seems to look like he just rolled in to work after a hard night on the tins.

Looking like your best 007 knockoff takes a bit of work. There’s definitely more to it than just a monthly trim and a few weekly sessions on the treadmill – your wardrobe needs to share the love.

Most of these wardrobe fundamentals are cheap, simple to use, and will be with you long most of the stuff you flogged off Mr Porter finds its way to the bottom of a charity bin.

A Seriously Decent Iron

Relying on your mother’s apron strings is a forlorn hope. One day – sooner rather than later – you’ll be on your own and with it, comes the enormous responsibility of ironing your own damn shirts. It’s better to spend a little bit more on a good iron than not.

This will save you from going over the same shirt three or four times when you’re supposed to be at work in fifteen minutes. It’s not the sexiest accessory, nor one you ever envisioned spending an afternoon prowling the department store homewares floor to find (welcome to the big boy leagues).

But a good iron saves time, frustration, and can make that white shirt you’ve worn three days in a row look passable.

Cedar Wooden Hangers

Tailored clothing needs time to rest and return to its original shape, and that’s not going to happen on the cheap and nasty dry cleaner wire hangers that are clogging your wardrobe.

Cedar wooden hangers prolong the life of your tailoring by maintaining the structure of the shoulder line. Additionally, they’re a mean deterrent against insects that like to devour your priceless clothing while you’re out on holiday.

Bin the shitty plastic ones you got at the suit store (disposing responsibly, of course) and make the small investment. The Hanger Project make hangers in assorted sizes and have the collective nod of approval from the likes of Esquire, the Robb Report, and the Wall Street Journal.

They’ll save you money in the long run and help your clothes survive the perilous interest of moths, mites, and other critters that make you think long and hard about where evolution fucked up.

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Garment Bags

The second line of defence against the perils of long-term garment storage is a cotton or nylon garment bag. Garment bags like these protect your clothes from abrasion during travel, and allow the enclosed fabrics to ventilate. If your clothes need a long-term rest in the wardrobe, these bags also give moths and insects a hard time getting in for a nibble.

Try to stick to cotton or even nylon if you’re having trouble sourcing the former. Plastic is a big no-no – especially the dodgy plastic covers you get after subjecting your clothes to a stay at the dry cleaners.

Plastic will suffocate the garment materials, and that’s if mould doesn’t get to it first. The chemicals in plastic can even permanently discolour your clothes. Despite the name, Kirby Allison’s Hanger Project do fantastic garment bags that are decidedly worth the cost of postage.

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Cedar Shoe Trees

Chances are you’ve seen these on the counters of shoe retailers. Maybe the guy who sold you those loafers tried to upsell you on a set.

Unlike most upsells, they’re worth the investment. Shoes undergo a lot of stress during wear, and cedar shoe trees help retain the shoe’s structure and prevent the leather from curling or cracking. This can add years onto your shoe’s lifespan, but the good stuff doesn’t end there.

Cedar shoe trees also keep the funk at bay. They absorb moisture, kill off bacteria, and have their own aromatic qualities that can mask the pong of your grimy toes. This is particularly important in warm climates like Australia, where a long day on the cobbles will make most guys a little nervous.

Reputable shoe stores will sell them, but a good arcade cobbler will usually offer a variety of options and won’t flog you on price. If you’re serious about shoes, get serious about cedar shoe trees.

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Shoeshine Kit

Long gone are the days where men were men and could get their shoes tidied at the local arcade. Whether it’s because the business model sucked or men stopped caring about their footwear, we’ll never know, but clean shoes are as important now as they were at any time in history.

A worthwhile shoeshine kit should contain all the essentials – polishing cloths, brushes, black and brown polish tins – and be housed in a robust container that you can chuck in your luggage.

Remember, gents, shoes can make or break a first impression. No one respects the guy wearing a baller Zegna suit and shoes that look like they’ve spent the last year at the bottom of a public toilet.

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Fabric Brush

Natural fibres collect dust, lint, and grime. Maybe your follicular game sucks and no one has the heart to tell you that you have so much dandruff you look like a suited lamington.

A simple fabric brush, like this Laundress clothing & upholstery brush, will remove the grot that collects during the day and freshen your clothes after wear. Natural fibre brushes perform better than synthetic variants, and don’t fall apart as quickly. It only takes a couple of minutes, but the results carry over throughout the week.

So don’t put it off, gents. Sometimes, the accumulation of filth is beyond the mettle of a fabric brush, leaving you no choice but to surrender your garments to a dry cleaner. This is a costly and dangerous process (and let’s be honest, most dry cleaners aren’t worth the oxygen).

A weekly brush will save you the trip to the arcade and we’d prefer you spend your money on beers instead.

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A Damn Good Alterations Specialist

This one isn’t something you can take home, but it’s not something you can do without. A good tailor can work a fair bit of magic. They can loosen up pants if your offseason has ballooned, tidy up jackets to contrive a slimmer build, and bring a suit in line with your proportions if you’re one of those peculiarly-built guys that can’t seem to get anything to fit.

How do you distinguish a legit tailor from the budget mall ‘specialist’? Ask a mate who is serious about his tailoring. Chances are he’ll have someone trustworthy on hand. Otherwise, most upscale, high-brow suiting retailers will use the best talent in town.

Unfortunately, however, many suit stores use a tailor that offers the most expedient commercial arrangement. This doesn’t mean their handiwork is worth the dollars. Be prepared to shop around (and don’t feel bad sending back shoddy alterations).

See our complete guide to Sydney and Melbourne’s best tailors.

Needle & Thread

Yes, you should support your local alterations specialists, but it benefits you in the long run if you’re not a useless muppet who can’t get through basic garment repairs.

Mending a torn hem, restitching a button, or even realigning a split seam are minor alterations you’ve probably already encountered, and no longer feel comfortable passing off to the tailor or your mother.

These things don’t take long to fix. A needle and thread kit is a pitifully small investment that will save you coin, time, and give you the rare satisfaction of feeling useful.

A Reliable Cobbler

Like tailors, cobblers can do things to your shoes that make you feel a bit stupid. They can perform a variety of repairs on your shoes, from minor, discretionary things like a topy sole protector, to a full resole after years of prolonged thrashing.

A select few offer a shoeshine service, but hopefully you’re graduating to the big leagues of self-reliance. Cobblers are also a rare fountain of wisdom, and can help you get the most out of your shoes if you ask (nicely).

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Virtually all car brands have their own negative stereotypes – some more accurate than others. BMW drivers don’t know how to indicate, only bogans buy Holdens, Italian cars are unreliable, SAAB owners are too weird for their own good… You get the picture.But some brands are just so big and successful that it’s hard to ascribe them a singular stereotype. Take Toyota: the worst thing you can levy at them is that they’re boring, but even then they still make cool cars like the Supra and GR Yaris that more than offset their boring commuter cars like the Camry.Mercedes-Benz has a similar sort of status. The world’s oldest car brand is not only the world’s biggest single manufacturer of luxury automobiles but also produces everything from amazing sports cars to vans and other commercial vehicles. Sure, the brand focuses on high-end offerings, but like Toyota they make such a large range of vehicles that’s it’s hard to pin any broad stereotype down on the brand.Until now.9 News has revealed the top 10 highest speeds clocked by NSW traffic cameras last year, and the top 4 spots were all taken out by Mercedes-Benzes. No other marque was as well-represented in the top 10: an Audi, a Ford, a Holden and a Nissan all appeared, as did two Beamers.But the stats don’t lie: it’s Mercedes that’s clearly the #1 car brand for hoons. “Uneasy is the head that wears a crown” indeed.

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In the speed camera stakes, the top spot was taken out by a Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class heading southbound in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, going an alleged 244km/h in an 80 zone. We’re quite impressed that the driver was able to get the SUV up to that sort of speed… Not that it makes it okay.Even more hilariously were the #2 and #3 spots, both taken out by what appears to be the same car in the same place, a Mercedes-AMG GT in the 80km/h Westconnex M4 East Tunnel: 218km/h in February… And then 210km/h by a thief a month later! Ironically, the car thief didn’t go as fast as the vehicle’s owner (although both were travelling dangerously fast).RELATED: ‘Will Never Happen Again’: Porsche Shuts Down Runway At Sydney Airport For Entire DayIf speed camera data wasn’t enough to prove that Mercedes is a brand for hoons, a video of an “all the gear and no idea” Merc owner trying to do a burnout with his AMG C63S coupe in Bankstown has made the rounds on social media recently.The owner – who clearly didn’t realise he hadn’t turned off the traction control – ended up not only sparking a fire, which totalled the car, but got issued with a Future Court Attendance Notice for dangerous driving. Funnily enough, we don’t have a lot of sympathy for him.

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Dan Bilzerian makes us ask all sorts of questions. Is he a soulless shill or a man of the people? Should we admire his radical honesty or condemn him for pandering to ‘base’ desires?Whether you see him as a brave middle finger to America’s religious conservatism or a 40-year-old man living out the puerile fantasies of a teenage boy, there’s one thing you can’t criticise Bilzerian for: his Instagram consistency.Why? If the day ever comes when one of Bilzerian’s posts does not include guns or buns, you can rest assured the end is nigh. On that note… Bilzerian just ‘Karen baited’ the internet into giving him yet more publicity for his upcoming book, posting the following image to Instagram, then deleting it.

“Just finished the 25th edit of my book and I’m finally done. Can’t wait to eat some mushrooms and get back on steroids,” Bilzerian captioned the post.

It appears he doesn’t quite have Hunter S. Thompson’s capacity for drug consumption.

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Time will tell if his efforts pay off. Bilzerian is yet to announce a release date for his book, which he is self-publishing, after he parted ways with his publisher in 2020.According to the NY Post, Bilzerian had a publishing deal set up with Simon and Schuster, which went up in smoke, according to one of their sources, because Bilzerian was too busy with his hot tub friends to actually write the thing.

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However, a rep for Bilzerian told the NY Post it wasn’t like that. “[Simon and Schuster] finished a ghost-written book which Dan wasn’t happy with,” said the rep, “so he returned the advance and wrote the book himself — no ghostwriter — and he intends to self-publish.”As for the steroids claim, if he isn’t simply trying to garner publicity, Bilzerian would be far from alone in the habit (though he’d certainly stand out a mile when it comes to admitting it).As DMARGE has previously reported, nailing down an exact figure in relation to the number of people who admit to taking steroids is like drawing blood from a stone, although, in Australia at least, only between 0.1% – 0.8% of the population are believed to have dabbled with the performance-enhancing drug.RELATED: Want To Get Big Quickly? Steroids Will Do The Trick…But At What Cost?The potential side effects of steroids are well documented, and these alone should be enough to deter any wannabe muscle mountain (testicular shrinkage and man-boobs? No thank you). But just in case you needed any further warning against using them, German bodybuilder Jo Lindner recently published a video to his YouTube account that offers some brutally honest advice from life experience.

Watch how to get ripped like Dan Bilzerian below

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What comes to mind when you think of Canberra? Vast expanses of grass and cement? Legal fireworks? Kevin 07? Old mate Turnbull? Things you stopped caring about when you turned 12 (or never cared about in the first place), no doubt. Legal porn is also a thing, although the allure of sex is hardly a drawcard to the region, census data showing that promiscuity in Canberra is quite low.Which is why it’s lucky it’s home to some of the coolest hotels around. Dig in to see where politicians rest their weary heads—on your dime.

Ovolo Nishi

NewActon Nishi, 25 Edinburgh Ave, CanberraDesign takes centre stage at the Japanese-inspired hotel, making it a must-stay for anyone who is into art or architecture. The Ovolo Nishi puts you in the heart of Canberra’s gallery scene, so you can wander through the various quirky events often happening nearby.If you don’t feel like leaving the precinct, you can wander down the Grand Stair to the Palace Cinema for a movie, to the Nishi Gallery to take in an exhibition or across the road to the National Film and Sound Archive to check out the art deco architecture and watch one of their film screenings.The concierge can also rustle up some of the hotel’s Good Speed bikes for guests to explore on, which is a nice way to pass a Canberra afternoon.

Hotel Realm

18 National Circuit, CanberraBubble baths, complimentary chocolates and huge pillows await you Hotel Realm. Especially if you’re lucky enough to stay in the Upper House Suite. This room boasts a massive plush king sized bed, a massive view, and a plasma TV. Beautiful wooden partitions break up the architecturally designed space which features a gas fireplace, balcony, motorised block-out blinds and the most epic spa bath you will ever experience.

“Located an easy 2.5 hour drive from the M5 Sydney, passing by the Southern Highlands, the nation’s Capital is truly a hidden gem worth finding.”

As told by Realm’s Group Marketing Manager, Martina Males, “New life flows through the city with swanky new restaurants and bars, internationally recognised hotels and an impressive art collection at the National Gallery of Australia.”The local produce is another attraction. From Piallago Estate’s award winning bacon, to wines from the Poaches Trail including Clonakilla (and Silo Bakery which was recognised by the New York Times), each and every culinary taste is catered to.

QT Canberra

133 Russell St, MelbourneDescribed as “an eclectic mix of design and art, style and luxury with a touch of quirk,” Canberra’s QT Hotel has earnt a reputation for a slightly cheeky and unorthodox brand of hospitality, which carries through in the hotel’s meticulous attention to detail, industrial-styled spaces, laneway speakeasy and rooftop bar perfect for business travellers and romantic weekenders alike.

Avenue Hotel

80 Northbourne Ave, CanberraIf checking out Parliament House and Canberra’s museums is on your agenda while in the city, book yourself into Avenue Hotel. Lush rooms with modern furnishings, spa suites and a stylish European steakhouse inspired gastro-pub serving up delicious paddock-to-plate delicacies during your stay, Avenue Hotel is for those who want a little taste of luxury.

Little National Hotel

21 National Circuit, BartonIf you’re exploring Canberra on a budget, Little National Hotel provides affordable and effortlessly chic accommodation. Located just a stone’s throw from previously listed Hotel Realm, Little National offers 120 rooms that are small on space but big on character and sophistication. It’s all about the business, conference and leisure guest who demands smart luxury and a spot-on location without going broke.

Hotel Kurrajong Canberra

8 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600 Located 1 kilometre from Old Parliament House and Capital Hill, Hotel Kurrajong Canberra is a heritage-listed property with a café, restaurant and 100MB of free WiFi per day, per room. Not bad.All rooms have a private bathroom, TV with cable channels, minibar and an in-room safe. What it lacks in avant-garde flair Hotel Kurrajong makes up for in space for events (it can cater for 12 to 200 people) and relaxed atmosphere. Boardroom and meeting facilities are also available and include LCD TVs.RELATED: The Coolest Melbourne Hotels To Stay & Play

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Flowers have remained synonymous with the fairer sex for far too long and it’s time the men of Australia embraced sweet smelling flora in their homes.

Well-picked and arranged flowers can bring a home to life with a touch of living elegance and masculinity. Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting giant pink blooms and delicate petals. Instead, check out our top man-friendly flora picks guaranteed to inject life your humble abode.

Australian Natives

Sturdy, patriotic and visually striking, you can’t go past a bunch of Australian natives for any room in the house. The warm and often earthy tones of native flowers lend themselves well to a man pad and they can be sourced year-round. Another bonus? Natives thrive in water far longer than regular blooms and can last up to a month with adequate water changes.

A few Aussie icons that should have a place in your home include:

• Banksia
• Kangaroo paw
• Scarlett ribbon
• Bottlebrush
• Grevillea (spider flower)

Snap Dragon (Khalissi is not included)

As the name suggests, the Snap Dragon is said to resemble the mythical fire-breathing beast (sounds pretty manly, right?) Just squeeze the stem and watch the ‘mouth’ snap open and closed for an interactive floral arrangement that will impress your mum and your mates. Avoid pretty pink snapdragons and combine the red and yellow varieties for a more manly arrangement.

Maroon Cymbidium Orchid

The Cymbidium Orchid is one of the easiest orchids to care for, making it appropriate for the busy modern man. When the orchid flowers, the rich maroon colouring oozes sophistication and masculinity. Suited to most climates and growing prolifically in Queensland, invest in a few Maroon Cymbidium Orchids and scatter them inside and outside the home.

Hops

Hops is the wonder flower responsible for flavouring beer, and for that reason alone it deserves a place on our list of dude-friendly flowers. But the power of hops doesn’t stop at the brewery. It has been used in herbal remedies for centuries, and in recent times they have cropped up in florists across the country.

Just remember: if you run out of beer, resist the urge to drink your old hops water – no good will come of it!

Cacti

Technically plants, there are numerous breeds of cactus offering flowering components that work well in a masculine space. In fact, the tough and prickly nature of cacti can be said to mirror that of our masculine dispositions, so why not bring the no-fuss plants into your home.

A few suitable flowing varieties include:

• Easter cactus
• Christmas cactus
• Pincushion cactus
• Rainbow hedgehog cactus
• Queen of the night orchid cactus

Heliconia

Tropical flowers are a favourite among the fellas thanks to their structural and exotic properties. The Heliconia flower is one such tropical beauty that could be making an appearance in a vase near you soon. The brilliant red and yellow flower (flanked by large green leaves) is actually related to the banana, and you don’t get much more masculine than that!

Anthuriums

Leave delicate perfumed petals to the ladies and embrace the waxy sturdiness of Anthurium flowers. Heart shaped and available in an array of red hues, the flower is attached to thick and fleshy stem of up to 20 inches – impressive!

Colour & Arrangement

The list of flowers mentioned here is just a guide to get you started. There are no rules when it comes to decorating your home with flowers, so choose what appeals to you. The trick is to arrange the blooms thoughtfully and uniquely.

For example, place flowers in old glass bottles rather than traditional vases or use tin cans to hold shorter-stemmed flowers. Also focus on bold colours like reds and oranges instead of pinks and purples, and opt for less perfumed and more textured flowers.

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To quote Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in 1987’s Wall Street, “greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”

Maybe he was onto something? While the 1% have stresses that the rest of us lowly peons don’t have to worry about, those inconveniences are often outweighed by their ability to not sweat the little stuff. From being able to justify tomahawk steaks for breakfast to shrugging off driving fines in dickhead fashion, things are just easier when you have boatloads of cash.

Speaking of boatloads, that’s where millionaire MMA legend Conor McGregor has found himself: meditating on the upper deck of a superyacht in Abu Dhabi ahead of his next big fight. They say money can’t buy happiness but it seems it can buy you inner peace, which is basically the same thing.

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The yacht, M/Y Moonlight II, is an almost 100m-long luxury leviathan, which can accommodate up to 36 guests in 18 rooms and boasts a helipad, movie theatre, wine cellar and a health club with sauna, steam room and gym – the latter of which we assume McGregor’s been taking full advantage of to prepare for his fight.

Charter prices start at €645,000 per week + expenses (that’s over 1 million AUD), with options such as a fleet of jet skis or diving equipment available for an additional fee. That’s chump change for someone like McGregor, who’s worth over 62 million AUD according to Forbes. And that figure is set to balloon come next week, too.

The Irishman is set to face American brawler Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 257 at ‘Fight Island’ in Abu Dhabi on the 24th of January: the first fight Conor’s had in a fair amount of time, and the first time he’s fought Poirier since they faced off back in 2014. McGregor has a disclosed purse of $5m plus a share of the pay-per-view profits, with The Independent estimating that he could be set to make around $20m.

Maybe he’s not meditating and instead just daydreaming about the huge prize packet headed his way. It brings to mind another quote, this time from D-Ruff on Snoop Dogg’s 1994 single Gin and Juice: “Laid back (with my mind on my money and my money on my mind)…”

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It may sound obvious, but if you want to gain muscle, you need to do more than lift weights and drink protein shakes. You need to follow a meal plan too, and track your calorie intake.In order to make gains of any description, you need to be a calorie surplus, meaning you consume more calories than your burn, and which also needs to be a higher figure than your BMR. This is your Basal Metabolic Rate; the number of calories you need to consume just to maintain your current weight.But, of course, life gets in the way. You may enjoy a few beers every now and then, or like to reward yourself for a good week with a calorific cheat meal – although this can potentially provide more negatives than positives.So what is the best plan to follow in order to see consistent gains throughout the year? Personal trainer and online fitness coach James Kew may have the answer.

 

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Taking to Instagram, James posted an image detailing what happens if you try to shed any excess body fat by following strict diets, as opposed to consistent training and eating sensibly.If you’re someone who is overweight, your natural instincts are going to be diet. This means you’ll cut out meals entirely, or swap out previous junk food favourites with much healthier options, all the name of eating clean. But as we said, life happens. These healthy foods can become boring over time, and you’re more likely to gorge on sweet treats or foods high in fat, because you feel it won’t make too much of a difference in terms of your goals.Wrong.Bingeing regularly – say every other weekend – can have serious detrimental effects and in most cases, will completely reverse the work you’ve put into eating clean, says James.

 

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On the contrary, James says that eating in a “moderate calorie surplus, somewhere between 200-300 calories over the maintenance” for most of the year (around 9 months) in combination with cutting for 2-3 months to remove body fat, can provide more beneficial and more sustainable results.This figure can potentially change depending on your body type: ectomorphs, for example, may find they need to consume a larger number of calories to see similar results to mesomorphs. Just make sure you don’t make the same bulking mistake as this guy, who put on too much body fat too quickly in the pursuit of muscle gains.Let it be known, eating more food sources such as carbohydrates (commonly associated with weight gain) can actually help you lose fat, just as long as you eat the right foods and the right amount.In a separate post, James adds that these foods should include high amounts of protein, plenty of fruit and vegetables and carbohydrates, and shouldn’t include all the ‘wonder miracle’ fat loss supplements and food products that fill up supermarket shelves. When you’re in your ‘cutting’ phase of the year, as long as you are in a calorie deficit, you are going to lose body fat.For the remainder of the year, go into a caloric surplus (ensuring you consume plenty of protein) and watch that muscle grow. Just don’t expect results overnight.

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While America has stolen the limelight for the most ‘in flux’ country during 2020, the U.K. and Europe have had enough of their own drama to put an episode of Gossip Girl to shame.Brexit was finalised “with a whimper, not a bang” in December. This involved heavy break up negotiations between London and Brussels. We can leave the jilted lover analogies for another time, however, because what’s of interest to Australians is how Brexit is going to affect their next European jaunt.Granted: given Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, told ABC News Breakfast earlier this week the widespread opening of international borders in 2021 is highly unlikely, that jaunt could still be a way off.But – provided we don’t become a hermit kingdom – over the next two or three years, Australians should be able to, politicians willing, start making quarter-life crisis pilgrimages to London and greater Europe once again.

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There will be one crucial difference, however. Now, if you are going to be in the U.K. for less than 90 days (anything longer than this will require a full visa), you will need to apply online for a ‘visa waiver’ before you go.“Australian citizens travelling to the E.U. will require a visa waiver for Europe from Australia as of the end of 2022,” the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) website states. “From that date onwards it will be obligatory to apply for an ETIAS visa waiver for business or leisure purposes once the program is fully implemented in late 2022.”

“This European visa waiver for Australian citizens permits Australians to visit the country for short stays of up to 90 days at a time.”

“The new security system is being implemented to reduce illegal immigration and to better protect against terrorist threats. Australians will be eligible to travel to European countries but will require travel authorization for Australian citizens to do so from the 2022 launch date,” the ETIAS website also states.

“This new system, however, permits Australians to travel to all 26 Schengen member states. This includes 22 EU member states such as France, Germany, Spain, and Italy in addition to 4 non-EU Schengen nations: Iceland, Norway, Lichtenstein, and Switzerland.”

For more information on how to apply, check out ETIAS.As Executive Traveller reported yesterday, “Costing €7 (A$11), the ETIAS will be applied for and issued online, be valid for three years, and cover an unlimited number of business and leisure visits.”

“Obtaining approval to travel via the ETIAS system will be mandatory for all visa-free travellers, including those from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, and all other visa-waiver countries.”

Travellers who possess a formal Schengen visa (and European passport holders) will not be required to get the ETIAS visa waiver.

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