Last week I looked at a study about sedentary women doing strength training. This week I thought it might be interesting to look at a recent study that considered how well overweight and obese premenopausal women adhere to a two-year twice-weekly weight training intervention. After all, if we’re all going to get out there to [...]
Tags:Motivation·Training·Women
It’s a bit of an odd post this week. Especially after my post a little while ago, Dedication to your Goals. I’d like to say right at the start that I am still as dedicated to my goals as I always was. However, an article by Scott Abel a couple of months ago got me [...]
Tags:Figure·Motivation·Psychology·Women
In last week’s part of the interview, Alli McKee told us some more about herself and got us into the mindset of some of the more invisible tools in her kit for making it as a Figure competitor – a woman with determination, drive and a bagful of very motivating quotes and music for those [...]
Tags:Diet·Figure·Motivation·weight loss
Not long after the Arnold Classic I invited Alli McKee to do an interview for Not Just a Man’s World. I’ll let her introduce herself properly in a moment but Alli has been competing very successfully in Figure competitions for several years now while still demonstrating a commitment to genuine strength in the gym. Unfortunately [...]
Tags:Figure·Motivation·music
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
Last week I set out the first five of my top ten tips for staying compliant to a difficult diet and therefore getting the most out of it. This week I finish off the list by addressing some of the more complicated social scenarios which can easily lead to diet failure and how to keep [...]
For the last three months of 2010 I was on a pretty strict diet. Actually, “pretty strict” probably doesn’t do it justice. At the start I was eating 970 calories a day and by the end I was on about 850 calories a day. When that’s all you’re eating, you get very particular about eating [...]
Last week I posted up the first half of an interview with Laura Trimble, someone I went to school with who has had a fantastic Ironman season this year. In the first half of the interview Laura let us into some of the secrets of how she handles the mental aspects of the tortuously long [...]
In many ways, despite the title of my blog in which I declare that women can do the things that men do, I am also a very typical woman. In fact, one of the things I’m always interested in is what the people who I’ve met and known over the years are doing now. Yes, [...]
Yesterday Bret Contreras (a.k.a. The Glute Guy) posted up a fascinating article about female strength levels. Having bombarded Bret with a load of questions in the comments I decided to use this week’s blog-watch post to dissect Bret’s post in a bit of detail and to think a bit around what he is saying since [...]
Tags:Female·Motivation·Muscle gain·Powerlifting·Pull up·Training·Women
