Following on from last week’s article about my state of mental health in relation to stress I thought I might do a bit more about the subject of stress. When I reviewed Robb Wolf’s book, The Paleo Solution, I explained that one of the areas that hit us both hard, especially Chris, was the chapter [...]
Tags:Mental strength·Stress
I was really glad to have a two week holiday this summer. Usually I just take a single week but this year there has been a lot going on in life with so many parts of life bumping up against each other and creating different stresses. It wasn’t until I got away from it all [...]
Eric Cressey did a lovely post the other week about the new addition to his family. He and his wife have recently got themselves a puppy. The best way to train a puppy is to endlessly repeat the same action, the same cues and the same movements, praising them with love and treats when they [...]
Tags:Figure·Improvement·Mental health·Mental strength·Psychology·Training·Women
Lifting heavy weights is as much about mental strength as it is about physical strength. You can have great muscle strength, but if you walk up to the bar and are not 100% convinced that you can move it, you won’t. If you do two reps and don’t believe there’s a third one in you, [...]
