Regular readers may recall that I had a complete breakdown in my motivation back during the summer and early autumn. It started with an issue with my diet and rapidly moved into struggling to get myself into the gym too (which I partly put down to work issues). This wasn’t the first time that I’ve [...]
Tags:Motivation·Psychology·Training
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
Last week, I wrote about the relationship I had with my figure through my late teens and early twenties. It was an uncomfortable relationship with a general sense that I didn’t really belong in my own skin. Here’s how the story (so far) finishes. My mid-twenties Suddenly things changed. I met Chris. Chris was a [...]
Tags:Figure·Motivation·Psychology
Last week I was staying away from home, working in London for a couple of days. Unfortunately (or fortunately), because it was London Fashion Week, there were no cheap hotel rooms left. Instead, I ended up in a swanky hotel room with a bed that could have slept several people, rather than just little me. [...]
I wrote a first version of this post while sat on a train, distinctly tipsy, on my way home from a hen party. It needed a bit of heavy editing, but it seems that even in my semi-drunken state there were some gems of honest thought which needed to be retrieved and shared with you [...]
Tags:Figure·Motivation·Psychology
Just over a month ago, I started taking weekly Krav Maga lessons. There was a possibility that I was going to be going to the Middle East for seven months with work and that I would be going on my own, without Chris. We discussed this at home and agreed that one of the conditions [...]
Do you ever have one of those “aha!” moments? Those moments when you suddenly realise the reason why you are doing something. As an example, I might spend weeks working on a new exercise in the gym because it’s good for some part of your range of motion and all of a sudden I’ll [...]
Tags:Cheap·Diet·Motivation·Psychology·Pudding
I’ve said before that my overruling life aim is to live a long and active life. Not a life where I spend the last ten or twenty years in a wheelchair, slowly becoming less and less able to function until I suffer the defeat of being spoon-fed when it suits the people looking after me [...]
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 [...]
Tags:Goals·Motivation·Psychology
It’s been a tough week for my body. It’s been abused, poisoned and wrecked. It’s been a tough week for my mind and emotions. They’ve been mangled, tested to the extreme and been found wanting. What happened At the start of the week I ate a large, gooey piece of cake. A friend was celebrating [...]
