In last week’s part of the interview, Alli McKee told us some more about herself and got us into the mindset of some of the more invisible tools in her kit for making it as a Figure competitor – a woman with determination, drive and a bagful of very motivating quotes and music for those [...]
Tags:Diet·Figure·Motivation·weight loss
Last week I wrote about the powerful reaction that both Chris and I had to reading The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf. While we’ve eaten well over the last few years, we still find there is value to clearing out the kitchen cupboards every so often. Using your kitchen cupboards to best effect Our kitchen [...]
Last week, I summarised the key points from an excellent pair of articles by Jamie Scott about the links between diet, exercise and the menstrual cycle (specifically the hormones that drive the cycle). There was so much good stuff that it turned into two posts, however I’m not going to repeat anything from last week’s [...]
Tags:Diet·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Training·weight loss·Women
I’ve been on “holiday” this week. We were walking through the Lake District, following Wainwright’s Coast to Coast route from St Bee’s on the east coast as far as Kirkby Stephen on the west side of the Yorkshire Dales. We did the rest of the route (Kirkby Stephen to Robin Hood’s Bay on the east [...]
Tags:barefoot·Diet·Figure·Goals·Psychology·Pudding·Recovery·Self-massage·Vibrams
I did a blog-watch last Thursday which had some posts, articles and sites which covered issues related to the interaction of diet with the menstrual cycle. However, I purposefully left off a pair of articles by Jamie Scott, also known as “That Paleo Guy”. Jamie writes an excellent blog and carries out plenty of detailed [...]
Tags:Diet·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Training·weight loss·Women
In thinking about the menstrual cycle for the article that ended up not being yesterday’s article (and will instead be next Wednesday’s article) it struck me that I’ve not written about how the menstrual cycle can be affected by diet for some time. When I first wrote about it in 2009 there was very little [...]
Some of you may have noticed that I went for a really high protein, low fat, low carb approach to my last fat loss diet with great effect. The logic behind that decision was that I was already very well adapted to burning fat for fuel and therefore consumption of dietary fat just went directly [...]
I’m stuck at my desk while I listen to hold music from the phone company. They’ve cut off our broadband for some reason. Anyway. To fill the time while I listen to their suitably soothing hold music I’ve decided to draft a post about something I was contemplating the other day. Dedication to your goals. [...]
Tags:Diet·Figure·Goals·Motivation·Training
Is it possible to gain muscle without getting fat? That’s the question we all want answered and, if you search through the writings of the great and the good, the experienced and the respected you’ll rapidly conclude that it isn’t, although just recently there’s been a lot of noise about Type 3 muscle fibre training [...]
Tags:Diet·Figure·Glutes·Goals·Muscle gain
I’ve had a few questions from people about what I do to go onto a maintenance diet and what it looks like in terms of body composition changes. Here’s an outline of my main approach to coming off a tough fat loss diet. Coming off a diet – some principles I have some very basic [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·Fat·Figure·protein
