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
For the last two weeks I’ve been ploughing through some technical material on what is going on with the female sex hormones when taking hormone-based contraceptives. Last week I put some consideration into what training and diet might work well with hormone-based contraceptives. So now we put it to the test with some real life [...]
Last week I spent some time writing about what the contraceptive pill and other hormone-based contraceptives do to our hormone cycles, when compared to the natural cycle that our bodies would follow without contraceptives. This week I’m going to pull together some conclusions about what that might mean for our diet and training. Hold onto [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·contraceptive·Diet·menstrual cycle·Training
A few months ago I did a few posts about the menstrual cycle and how it might impact on our strength, endurance and diet. In particular I was trying to get to the bottom of how I might flex my diet and training to work with my hormone cycles rather than against them. After I’d [...]
Last week, I summarised the key points from an excellent pair of articles by Jamie Scott about the links between diet, exercise and the menstrual cycle (specifically the hormones that drive the cycle). There was so much good stuff that it turned into two posts, however I’m not going to repeat anything from last week’s [...]
Tags:Diet·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Training·weight loss·Women
I did a blog-watch last Thursday which had some posts, articles and sites which covered issues related to the interaction of diet with the menstrual cycle. However, I purposefully left off a pair of articles by Jamie Scott, also known as “That Paleo Guy”. Jamie writes an excellent blog and carries out plenty of detailed [...]
Tags:Diet·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Training·weight loss·Women
Last week I did an article about the Hepburn routines that I’ve been using. It was, in fact, a precursor to the article I wanted to write for this week. I’ve written about exercise and the menstrual cycle before, in particular about matching periodisation with your cycle and how my cycle can interact poorly with [...]
In thinking about the menstrual cycle for the article that ended up not being yesterday’s article (and will instead be next Wednesday’s article) it struck me that I’ve not written about how the menstrual cycle can be affected by diet for some time. When I first wrote about it in 2009 there was very little [...]
Since I’m a woman and am aware that I am trying to write this blog for women, articles about pregnancy always catch my eye. Here’s a pick of some of the best or most interesting that I’ve seen recently. It seems that BBC News has been getting excited about pregnancy at the moment. The first [...]
I’m a woman and I do weight training. For many people the statement above is an oddity. Why should I want to train at weights if I’m a woman? Tony Gentilcore put it perfectly when he summarised the fact that people frequently question why a woman is choosing to do any weight training whereas nobody [...]
Tags:Bone density·Figure·Glutes·Grip·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Training·Women
