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
Well I’m nearly back where I was pre-Christmas at last. Despite a weekly trip down to London, which cuts a significant chunk out of my week at the moment, tires me out a lot, and leaves me doing all my workouts on consecutive days I still seem to be coping well. That said, my chins [...]
Tags:Figure·Powerlifting·Training
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 [...]
Over time I collect together quite a lot of links in my Google Reader, stored up because I think they would be worth sharing with people who read the blog. Last weekend I thought I’d play a bit of a game, starting with my oldest link and then playing a form of word association with [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·Fat·Figure·Intermittent fasting·Sleep
Before I went into accountancy I did a degree in Archaeology. I specialised in American archaeology and Palaeolithic archaeology. I guess it was specialising in the Palaeolithic which meant I was so intrigued when I first heard about the Paleo diet (yes, there are two ways of spelling Palaeolithic, I suspect it’s an English/American divide [...]
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
It’s a bit of an odd post this week. Especially after my post a little while ago, Dedication to your Goals. I’d like to say right at the start that I am still as dedicated to my goals as I always was. However, an article by Scott Abel a couple of months ago got me [...]
Tags:Figure·Motivation·Psychology·Women
I’ve been having a bit of a crazy time with my glutes. Anyone who has been reading my powerlifting progress posts will know that I am on a mission this year to try and build some glute bulk. A decent amount of glute hypertrophy would be much appreciated for improving the size and shape of [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve been posting up a mammoth interview which I did with Alli McKee. So far we’ve covered motivation, inspiration, diet and contest preparation training. I really recommend you go back and have a read if you’ve not had a chance to do so yet. This week is the final installment where [...]
