After a few weeks of studies about sedentary women, the impact resistance training can have on their weight and how good new trainees are at adhering to their training programmes, I have decided to move the topic sideways. The main reason I took up weight training several years ago was because I wanted to be [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
It’s not often I get to write a blog post like this, but this will be a short celebration of the fact that I had learned my lesson last time I tried to increase my work capacity and workout density. I applied those lessons and as a result I managed to smoothly move into my [...]
Tags:contraceptive·menstrual cycle·Recovery·Rest·Training·Work capacity
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 [...]
I use a contraceptive pill. It makes my life easier when trying to predict the easiest time to arrange outdoor wilderness or wild-camping holidays and for my workouts it can also prove useful. Something that I was fascinated in not long after I started lifting was whether the contraceptive pill impacted on my ability to [...]
