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
Scott Abel wrote a fascinating article at the start of this year which I felt warranted a bit of attention through a blog-watch post. Who is Scott Abel and why was he writing about hypervitaminosis? Scott Abel is a former physique and bodybuilding competitor who now coaches other bodybuilders and figure athletes to get them [...]
Tags:Diet·Figure·Supplements
Some time ago Chris asked me if I would do some research into Vitamin B, including details about what it is useful for and what foods we can get it from (and therefore whether we need to supplement), since someone had mentioned something to him about Vitamin B being good for hair. It has taken [...]
For the start of the New Year I am doing a few blog-watches to share with you the blogs that I read on a regular basis. Last week I divulged some of the female strength and conditioning blogs that I read. Today I’ll cover some of the diet and health-related blogs which I read, including [...]
Tags:Diet·Paleo diet·Psychology
Last week I set out the first five of my top ten tips for staying compliant to a difficult diet and therefore getting the most out of it. This week I finish off the list by addressing some of the more complicated social scenarios which can easily lead to diet failure and how to keep [...]
For the last three months of 2010 I was on a pretty strict diet. Actually, “pretty strict” probably doesn’t do it justice. At the start I was eating 970 calories a day and by the end I was on about 850 calories a day. When that’s all you’re eating, you get very particular about eating [...]
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. When I started out on this series there were several key problems, such as poor hip mobility. Since I’ve been on holiday for the last week I thought I [...]
Last week I posted up the first half of an interview with Laura Trimble, someone I went to school with who has had a fantastic Ironman season this year. In the first half of the interview Laura let us into some of the secrets of how she handles the mental aspects of the tortuously long [...]
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. When I started out on this series there were several key problems, such as poor hip mobility. Having had some reasonable successes at the end of 2009 and some [...]
In many ways, despite the title of my blog in which I declare that women can do the things that men do, I am also a very typical woman. In fact, one of the things I’m always interested in is what the people who I’ve met and known over the years are doing now. Yes, [...]
