With Christmas just around the corner, I thought I would take a moment to share with you the bits and pieces of kit, equipment and supplements) I’ve added to my life and then kept there because I just wouldn’t be without them anymore. The things I would classify as essentials now. With everything listed here [...]
Tags:Fish oil·Glutes·Magnesium·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Resistance training·Supplements·Vibrams·Vitamin D·Women
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 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, although I’m holding back until at least 2012 for that. 2010 proved to be the year when I really nailed my hip mobility, subsequently made massive increases on my [...]
Tags:Glutes·Powerlifting·Training
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 [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve been making recordings of some of the bits of my workouts. Squat I filmed the first four sets of my eight sets with 75kg on 4 May. It was the second time I’d done this weight (so one set of three and seven sets of two reps) and I [...]
Following on from last week, this week sees some more videos of exercises for toning our bums and thighs (less on the tums, it just fitted well with the title) as well as my conclusions on all these videos at the end. 6. Natalia Muntean Key exercises: Wide stance deep squat, Horse stance, Skier squat, [...]
Tags:Exercises·Glutes·Muscle gain·Women
For some reason, Chris went through a phase of sharing with me millions of videos and articles containing videos produced by a collection of models, trainers, bloggers and complete unknowns. I’ve picked out some of them and done a comparison of the key exercises and set/rep schemes to see if there is something to learn [...]
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
Since I’m working on some glute hypertrophy at the moment, I thought I would pull together a few recent links about glute work. Why hypertrophy for the glutes you may ask? A good, firm, rounded set of glute muscles is the perfect completion of a female figure, lifting the figure and giving it that curvaceous [...]
