I’ve been on “holiday” this week. We were walking through the Lake District, following Wainwright’s Coast to Coast route from St Bee’s on the east coast as far as Kirkby Stephen on the west side of the Yorkshire Dales. We did the rest of the route (Kirkby Stephen to Robin Hood’s Bay on the east [...]
Tags:barefoot·Diet·Figure·Goals·Psychology·Pudding·Recovery·Self-massage·Vibrams
I’m stuck at my desk while I listen to hold music from the phone company. They’ve cut off our broadband for some reason. Anyway. To fill the time while I listen to their suitably soothing hold music I’ve decided to draft a post about something I was contemplating the other day. Dedication to your goals. [...]
Tags:Diet·Figure·Goals·Motivation·Training
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
I wrote last week that I was starting on a diet. I’m a week into it and, as promised, I’ve collected here a batch of update articles and posts that are principally about suitable diets for fat loss. Let’s start this week with an in-depth technical review of what fat loss is. Ryan Andrews did [...]
Please forgive me for going a little bit off-topic today. I went to my ten year reunion at University last weekend. When the invitation first landed on the doormat I must admit to briefly feeling quite old, but I couldn’t pass up on an opportunity to see old friends and acquaintances that I haven’t seen [...]
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I’ve just been helping Chris write his diet for his weight loss cycle which will start at Easter. I’m also going to be following a short weight loss cycle to keep him company. Since we do our workouts together and also eat similar meals it is convenient for me to follow a weight loss regime [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·Fish oil·Goals·Supplements·weight loss
Management consultants: not all bad Thanks to my job, the language of management consultants has become second nature to me. Some phrases, like ‘straw man’ and ‘thought shower’ leave me cold and I avoid them whenever possible. However, I like the concept of ‘thinking outside the box’ and I think that it’s something that applies [...]
Tags:Goals·Injury·Powerlifting·Psychology·Recovery·Rest·Training
Happy New Year! Traditionally we spend the days leading up to 1 January each year coming up with resolutions. We resolve to do new things for the next year, or promise to stop doing other things. More often than not we set the targets at impossible heights and then either recognise this and don’t even [...]
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Having goals when you are training is incredibly important. You need to be aiming for something in order to work out what to do at the moment. Otherwise there is a likelihood that you will fail to achieve anything. Why do I need training goals? Not having training goals could be compared to setting out [...]
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