A few weeks ago I wrote about the connections between stress and body fat. I’d been doing some reading about it last year after finishing my 2010 autumn weight loss stint when I spent 3 months on a very hard fat-cutting diet. Traditionally I have found that I’ve carried a lump of fat just above [...]
Tags:cortisol·Diet·Figure·Stress·weight loss
One of the biggest reasons I gave up my desk job was to reduce the stress in my life. I would like to live as healthy a lifestyle as I can manage and decided that I could arrange my life so that I didn’t need the level of income that came from a five-day-per-week high-hours [...]
Tags:cortisol·Diet·Figure·Psychology·Rest·Stress·weight loss
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 [...]
Cortisol is an awkward inheritance. Once upon a time it had a very real purpose. Even today it still serves it’s original purpose when given the correct opportunity, in situations like earthquakes, tsumanis, attempted murder, robbery and the humble, but basic, accident. Depending on what you read it may also regularly serve it’s purpose by [...]
Tags:Bone density·cortisol·Insomnia·Magnesium·Recovery·Rest·Training·Women
