You’ve probably noticed that pull ups are a significant part of my workout structure. This has been a conscious decision for three key reasons: as a woman there is real satisfaction in being able to do good quality reps of pull ups, rather than the partials that you so often see people doing in the [...]
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 [...]
Well everyone, Cassandra Forsythe finally had her baby a few weeks ago. Many congratulations to her and her husband! Very impressively she did a super long post all of 24 hours later to tell us all about her birth experience. I do feel a little sorry for her husband who doesn’t seem to come out [...]
I’ve never been able to touch my toes. Even when I did years of ballet as a child and then yoga as a teenager I couldn’t get there unless I’d just done a 2 hour session of leg-focused yoga. So imagine my amazement last week when, after only 2 weeks of doing the Romanian Deadlift [...]
Last October I introduced the Turkish Get-up and said I was going to find a way to introduce them into my program. Needless to say, I didn’t get round to it. In the last couple of months, Turkish Get-ups seem to have had a new wave of interest and the following three posts and articles [...]
2 years ago I was still working away at my abs with little success. I was trying every exercise I came across but my abs were so weak that anything that was too hard for them gave me lower back ache. Lying on my back on a bench or the floor could even cause my [...]
2 years ago I was still working away at my abs with little success. I was trying every exercise I came across but my abs were so weak that anything that was too hard for them gave me lower back ache. Lying on my back on a bench or the floor could even cause my [...]
2 years ago I was still working away at my abs with little success. I was trying every exercise I came across but my abs were so weak that anything that was too hard for them gave me lower back ache. Lying on my back on a bench or the floor could even cause my [...]
You might recall that I decided to try out the workouts recommended by the Glute Guy (Bret Contreras). So how have they gone? Phase Two – starting out I had correctly assessed that I need to start at phase two, although I did do a couple of phase one workouts during my first week just [...]
I managed to pick up some sort of stomach bug a week ago. Trust me to pick something up when I go out for dinner for a salad. It wasn’t even a particularly nice salad… At first I thought I would be able to keep working from home, but that became impractical when I found [...]
