Happy New Year and welcome back to Not Just a Man’s World! I hope all my reader’s have had a break over the Festive period and are feeling enthused for a fresh start on 2012, just as I am. 2011 was a tough year for me. I knew that I would be giving up my [...]
Tags:Diet·Female·Paleo diet·Powerlifting·Psychology·Shampoo·Training·weight loss
It has been a while since I last did an article focussing solely on those really strong women out there. However, lots of them have been interviewed on sites across the internet recently so here is some inspiration for all the women who read this blog and fight the iron. The most noticeable thing they [...]
As you may know, I’m away on holiday and should be just over halfway through my thirteen days of walking now. Monday is usually my workout post but since I should be halfway up a mountain in the middle of Switzerland today and internet cafés are rare these days, I’ve written this post in advance [...]
Tags:Female·Figure·Glutes·Powerlifting·Resistance training·Training·Women
I’ve seen a few pregnancy-related bits and bobs over the last few months so I decided to pull them together in one place for those who want to know about such things. There seem to be lots of pregnancies among my friends at the moment – probably something to do with my age. We’re all [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Yesterday Bret Contreras (a.k.a. The Glute Guy) posted up a fascinating article about female strength levels. Having bombarded Bret with a load of questions in the comments I decided to use this week’s blog-watch post to dissect Bret’s post in a bit of detail and to think a bit around what he is saying since [...]
Tags:Female·Motivation·Muscle gain·Powerlifting·Pull up·Training·Women
This is a controversial subject. Obviously there is the “women should do light weights with high reps and shouldn’t lift heavy” camp and I definitely disagree with them. However, there are some more subtle differences that may affect how you structure your training (eg. biomechanics, ability to recover etc). A few months ago I had [...]
Tags:Female·Glutes·Pull up·Recovery·Training·Women·Work capacity
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 [...]
What happens when you apply training techniques to female athletes that are developed through research carried out on young male athletes? Unsurprisingly there is an increased risk of injuries to the female athletes. That is the conclusion reached by exercise physiologist Vicki Harber from the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of [...]
