For the last two weeks I’ve been ploughing through some technical material on what is going on with the female sex hormones when taking hormone-based contraceptives. Last week I put some consideration into what training and diet might work well with hormone-based contraceptives. So now we put it to the test with some real life [...]
It was time to create a variant on the original chocolate mousse recipe which both Chris and I love. You can’t beat a chocolate and orange combination! Ingredients (fills 5-6 small ramekins): 200g dark chocolate (we use 85% or 90%) 3 eggs, separated Zest of ½ orange, finely chopped 4 fl oz of freshly squeezed [...]
Tags:Cookery·Paleo diet·Pudding
I am serious about wanting to meet national qualifying standards in powerlifting. I’m also aiming to compete one day with the British Drug Free Powerlifting Association, although I’m holding back until at least 2012 for that. 2010 proved to be the year when I really nailed my hip mobility, subsequently made massive increases on my [...]
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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I’ve just had a horrendous week at work. It was already going to be a busy week but then I arrived in work on Monday to a regulatory body review of the work we do on one of my clients and it has taken all week to pull the [...]
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Last week I spent some time writing about what the contraceptive pill and other hormone-based contraceptives do to our hormone cycles, when compared to the natural cycle that our bodies would follow without contraceptives. This week I’m going to pull together some conclusions about what that might mean for our diet and training. Hold onto [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·contraceptive·Diet·menstrual cycle·Training
Roasted vegetables are often the easiest vegetable side dish to serve up with a meal. They are low maintenance and, provided you remember to put them into the oven early enough, they can be left to cook while you get on with the rest of the meal. My only caveat is that you need to [...]
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I am serious about wanting to meet national qualifying standards in powerlifting. I’m also aiming to compete one day with the British Drug Free Powerlifting Association, although I’m holding back until at least 2012 for that. 2010 proved to be the year when I really nailed my hip mobility, subsequently made massive increases on my [...]
Tags:Powerlifting·Training
Here’s the links for this weekend. I’m starting to work on getting ahead so that you still have some links reading while I’m away on holiday. As a result you’ll probably find that links start to seem a week or two behind their release date over the next few weeks as I start to gather [...]
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A few months ago I did a few posts about the menstrual cycle and how it might impact on our strength, endurance and diet. In particular I was trying to get to the bottom of how I might flex my diet and training to work with my hormone cycles rather than against them. After I’d [...]
I love goat’s cheese and, if I’m eating out and goat’s cheese salad is on the menu, I find it is a reasonably reliable restaurant food to go for. Especially if you want to eat paleo and you are also, for whatever reason, trying to be on a low carb diet. Well, it’s reliable once [...]
Tags:Cookery·Dairy·Paleo diet
