The OYNB Podcast

The OneYearNoBeer Podcast will inspire you to take, or support your journey on a 30, 90 & 365 day challenge to stop drinking and focus on healthy habits.

You've Dropped the Booze – Now What?

You’ve decided to drop the booze for a while, good on you! Now that you have all of this new time and focus on your hands what do you plan on doing with it? Here at One Year No Beer we have a MindFit, BodyFit, FoodFit mentality, put all three together and you’re...

Starting Your Fitness Journey

Starting Your Fitness Journey So you’ve dropped the booze and now you’re wanting to get started on your fitness journey. You’ve planned all of these amazing activities for yourself, but where do you start? At the beginning! Your body isn’t made to go from...

Find a Community to be a Part of – It's Good for You!

When we were kids our interests may have been bike riding, playing Nintendo, and football, all day every day. As we aged things changed, some of us went from carefree high schoolers, to college students with a flare for pub crawls and beer pong. No matter where we...

Quit Booze: Lou's Triumphant 90 Day Story

We love hearing stories about how you quit booze and Lou's share is no different. We hope you enjoy the read and get inspired to live the life you want to live! I joined the OYNB group on the 4th of January 2016. My initial thought was to do 'Dry January' after having...

Is Alcohol A Gateway Drug to Health?

There is plenty of science to suggest alcohol is a gateway drug to other drugs. A few pints pave the way to a few lines, a few smokes or worse. But let’s turn this idea on its head. At OneYearNoBeer we have discovered that ‘giving up’ alcohol is also the gateway to a...

The secret behind Magic Mike XXL star Joe Manganiello’s Incredible Physique

In a film that is dominated by six packs, chiselled bodies and super smooth moves one actor was the envy of his cast members. Steven Soderbergh described Joe Manganiello as Mr CGI because his body was so flawless. In truth Joe had been through a significant journey to...

9 Reasons Why Giving Up Alcohol is Good for Business and Life

Two years ago I set myself a challenge, the ultimate social challenge - one year without alcohol. As a broker in the city of London, most people thought this an impossible task and others considered it terrible for business. Instead of destroying relationships...

Limitless: The Infinite Possibilities of a Life Free from Alcohol

Have you ever seen that movie where the absurdly handsome lad from 'The Hangover' takes a pill, which allows him to access 100% of his brain? He takes the pill, and instantly, his life changes. He becomes more productive, assured, confident, successful, and completely...

Help us break the bravado

Once I stopped drinking, my eyes were opened to a new world. The social pressure to drink alcohol in the city became almost visible. Imagine the scenario: Three guys at lunch and none of them want to drink alcohol. One has a personal training session booked, the other...

The Top 5 Places to Socialise During Your Dry Stint

TEETOTAL SOCIALITES The most important part of your dry stint is learning to get the same rewards, but in new ways. You loved hanging around the bar with mates, but now it’s time to get those mates to swap the bar for something different... 5. Go-Karts Pure...

Want a Body like Wolverine? Here's the Man to Show You How.

We're extremely honoured to have a guest post from the legend David Kingsbury: Celebrity coach and the man responsible for the Wolverine body. I don't know about you, but if he can get me looking one tenth of Wolverine, I will be very happy indeed. David has always...

The Worlds Quickest Way to Peak Performance

There is so much talk of peak performance, how best to achieve it and the riches it brings. My background as a professional athlete, and currently running a busy futures brokerage has taught me much about peak performance. For many years I was guilty of working hard...

Why Dry Jan could be bad for you

Lets kick this off by saying we love the work Alcohol Concern do and Dry Jan is a stroke of genius on their part. Dry Jan now helps millions take a break from alcohol and raises a huge amount of money for charities. On the whole we love it! BUT in amongst all these...