I’ve got a few studies in the pipeline that are related to the impact of different substances or training styles on physical performance or body composition. I decided it was time that I kicked this collection off. To start I’ve chosen a relatively recent study that is women-specific (not all of these will be, unfortunately). [...]
Tags:Bone density·Dairy·Muscle gain·Resistance training·weight loss·Women
Over the last few years I’ve made a lot of changes to my life – this is a brief piece that was originally an introduction to another post looking at the changes to my life. After all, with the New Year approaching this is the traditional time for self-analysis. ***** Go back four or five [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Fat adaption·Muscle gain·Paleo diet·Resistance training·Self-massage·Stress·Vibrams
Following on from last week, this week sees some more videos of exercises for toning our bums and thighs (less on the tums, it just fitted well with the title) as well as my conclusions on all these videos at the end. 6. Natalia Muntean Key exercises: Wide stance deep squat, Horse stance, Skier squat, [...]
Tags:Exercises·Glutes·Muscle gain·Women
For some reason, Chris went through a phase of sharing with me millions of videos and articles containing videos produced by a collection of models, trainers, bloggers and complete unknowns. I’ve picked out some of them and done a comparison of the key exercises and set/rep schemes to see if there is something to learn [...]
Is it possible to gain muscle without getting fat? That’s the question we all want answered and, if you search through the writings of the great and the good, the experienced and the respected you’ll rapidly conclude that it isn’t, although just recently there’s been a lot of noise about Type 3 muscle fibre training [...]
Tags:Diet·Figure·Glutes·Goals·Muscle gain
Some time ago Chris asked me if I would do some research into Vitamin B, including details about what it is useful for and what foods we can get it from (and therefore whether we need to supplement), since someone had mentioned something to him about Vitamin B being good for hair. It has taken [...]
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
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 have the good fortune to live in a village between two large towns. While I am conscious of the light pollution of these towns when walking after dark on the hills outside the village, we aren’t close enough to notice a significant “glow” at night. Our bedroom is on the back of the house [...]
Tags:Mental health·Muscle gain·office·Recovery·Sleep·weight loss
I wrote last week that I was starting on a diet. I’m a week into it and, as promised, I’ve collected here a batch of update articles and posts that are principally about suitable diets for fat loss. Let’s start this week with an in-depth technical review of what fat loss is. Ryan Andrews did [...]
