I get stressed far too easily and I’ve found that my stress levels correlate with poor performance in the gym as well as mental fog and all the usual things that I expect from high stress days. It’s worth noting though that I don’t often suffer from poor sleep when stressed, I just wake up [...]
Tags:Diet·Insomnia·Motivation·Muscle gain·Recovery·Rest·Stress·Training·weight loss·Women
I was staying away from home the other week because of work. For the second week I had a dreadful mattressso my sleep quality was poor and by the end of four days I was stressed and physically tired. Sleep is a hugely underestimated element of athletic performance. Dan John swears by it for performance [...]
Tags:Insomnia·Recovery·Rest·Sleep·weight loss
Cortisol is an awkward inheritance. Once upon a time it had a very real purpose. Even today it still serves it’s original purpose when given the correct opportunity, in situations like earthquakes, tsumanis, attempted murder, robbery and the humble, but basic, accident. Depending on what you read it may also regularly serve it’s purpose by [...]
Tags:Bone density·cortisol·Insomnia·Magnesium·Recovery·Rest·Training·Women
During the last couple of weeks of the cutting diet I was reminded of an unpleasant side-effect that I suffer from when I’m cutting. I start to find I can’t sleep properly. Right now it is 5am on one of these sleepless nights and I’m writing this instead of sleeping. I always go to bed [...]
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