Plenty of variety this week, including some positive news for beer drinkers (for once)!
- Does Women’s Lib mean that you have to have a full-time career or can you still be celebrating it by choosing to be a full-time stay-at-home mother? Should Women’s Lib mean that we have the right to choose? Quest for Balance did a thought-provoking piece on this issue which certainly made me think twice about it.
- I just loved Tony Gentilcore’s rant on the questions he gets at the checkout over the number of eggs he buys. We get similar questions about how we get through so many eggs, but since we buy them at the village pet shop I suspect they are too polite (or value the custom too much) to try to give us dietary advice about it. Tony has helpfully also linked to lots of other information on why eggs are not so bad for you.
- I’m a fan of squatting, both single-leg (Bulgarian) and two-legged. Especially since I rediscovered back squatting with my new, improved hip mobility. Bill Hartman has highlighted a recent study comparing single-leg and two-leg squats in female athletes! The conclusion seems to be that both have their benefits, though I’m interested that Bill doesn’t say anything about which two-leg squat version they used. I assume back squat was used rather than front squat.
- I’ve included a special post for my partner Chris who is always coming up with more good reasons for why he should continue to drink beer. I’ve found an article on recent research showing that drinking beer improves your memory.
- When in doubt, write about what you know. Nia Shanks has done this in style by writing about her Mum’s powerlifting (and weight loss) success and including videos of further inspiring weight training feats being performed by various women. If you want to be inspired in the gym, read this post!
- This blog is all about proving that women can also do things that men can do. So it seems appropriate to focus on all things strong, including the newly crowned “world’s strongest insect“. I’d like to see a human pull a load that is 1,141 times their bodyweight.
- Did you ever wonder why children suffer from various diet-related problems? I stopped wondering when I found the “Fed up: School Lunch Project” blog in which an anonymous school teacher in the US is spending a year eating and documenting (with photos) the lunches served up at their school. I’d be ashamed to serve up most of these meals and some of them wouldn’t even be appropriate as pig-slop.
- Rick Kaselj recently interviewed Eric Cressey about the three corrective exercise mistakes fitness and performance professionals make. Well worth a listen to make sure you’re not making them.
- Yet another inspirational Figure Athlete to encourage you to aim for your goals and achieve them.
- Nothing to do with fitness or diet, but I really like these ten tips for retaining a language. When I left school I had passable French and German skills but German (in particular) is lost to me know. Perhaps it’s time I dug them up again and actually tried to keep them going.
- Fancy joining a women’s arm wrestling league? The Washington Post featured some photos from a league that has grown and expanded into ten cities in the US.
Here’s a song that will appeal to anyone who has already been through their teenage years, and especially to the Mums amongst you (based on the original by Anita Renfroe I believe).
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