Last weekend I cracked. On the Saturday I finally admitted a temporary defeat and decided to completely re-write the training program from scratch. I had two main reasons: work-related things at the moment mean that it would be handy to have a bodyweight equipment-free workout that will be effective and which I can bring out [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Psychology'
Blog-watch: aging and longevity
July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Psychology
Any regular readers will be well-versed with my genuine life goals an motivations by now. The quick and dirty summary is that I want to be able to live until I am a centenarian but I would like to be fully active and self-sufficient (eg. able to care for myself) all the way through. This [...]
Tags:Longevity
Blog-watch: some pregnancy articles
July 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Psychology, Training
Since I’m a woman and am aware that I am trying to write this blog for women, articles about pregnancy always catch my eye. Here’s a pick of some of the best or most interesting that I’ve seen recently. It seems that BBC News has been getting excited about pregnancy at the moment. The first [...]
Weight loss progress and ongoing success
July 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Psychology, Training
Weight loss – part 9 This is the ninth, and final, part in a series about weight loss including diet, exercise, measuring your success and keeping the weight off when you stop. Over the last few months I have found out about all sorts of diet and exercise related issues that should help with weight [...]
Tags:Sleep·weight loss
Changing the routine
June 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Psychology, Training
I’ve just got back from holiday. Delayed flights meant we finally crawled into bed just before 2am so I’m completely exahusted today and my first workout back was very much a “let’s just get in the gym and have a shot at doing something” rather than a properly structured workout. We were doing some trekking [...]
Tags:Holiday
Lessons learned: summer sleep cycles
May 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Psychology, Training
Over the two weeks before going on holiday I was starting to become aware that it is getting lighter earlier in the morning. When I’m not overly stressed about work or some other issue I tend to wake easily in the morning and the sun is a prime factor in whether I can get back [...]
Tags:Sleep
Blog-watch: memory enhancers
April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Psychology, Training
I used to joke that I had a memory like a colander. The holes were so big and my ability to retain any information (other than things I needed to remember for exams, helpfully) was so bad that I couldn’t even say my memory was like a sieve. It started to become an embarrassment. If [...]
Weight loss
April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Psychology, Training
Weight loss is an important subject for a lot of women. In our attempts to build and maintain the perfect figure we will almost certainly have to go through at least one phase of weight loss in our lives. This is the start of a series of posts I’m going to write exploring a range [...]
Tags:Image·Psychology·weight loss·Women
Blog-watch: longevity
April 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Psychology
I’ve said before that my overruling life aim is to live a long and active life. Not a life where I spend the last ten or twenty years in a wheelchair, slowly becoming less and less able to function until I suffer the defeat of being spoon-fed when it suits the people looking after me [...]
The placebo effect
April 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Psychology, Training
I’ve spent the last few weeks keeping Chris company on the start of his fat stripping diet. It’s been a bit awkward since I didn’t go into it with the same verve and panache that I usually have and trying to fit the cardio routines that work for me when stripping fat don’t easily fit [...]
