I mentioned the other week that I had some interesting side effects from the cycle touring holiday. In particular my legs really suffered. I thought I’d set out here what happened and what I believe caused it. You can let me know if you agree with me. Exercise on the holiday The holiday involved a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Muscle gain'
Raw food
March 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Diet
After listening to several radio interviews with Randy Roach, a personal trainer who eats a raw food diet, and starting to read a book that argues the case for human evolution being closely related to, and dependent on cooking our food, I’ve become fascinated by the raw food debate. What does a raw food diet [...]
Tags:Cookery·Diet·Meat·menstrual cycle·Muscle gain·Raw food·weight loss·Women
Blog-watch: recent glute news
March 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Training
It’s been a while since I last wrote about the glutes. This all-important part of a woman’s muscle structure that is so often overlooked by women who are working on their figure and which can make the difference between a nice figure and a really amazing one. I’ve been watching a lot of World Strongest [...]
Tags:Glutes·Muscle gain·Training
Workout nutrition: protein, fat or carbohydrate?
March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Training
Last week I wrote about the timing of workout nutrition, concluding that pre-workout nutrition is vital to athletic performance and improvements to this performance. However, there’s also debate on the content of the nutrition. I’ve set out below various parts of the debate so that you can reach your own conclusions. Pre workout nutrition A [...]
Tags:Diet·Muscle gain·Training·weight loss·Workout nutrition
Workout nutrition: timing
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Training
The issue of workout nutrition, including how much to have, what to have and when to have it, seems to be cause for extended and heated debate in the fitness industry. Recently a couple of things have got me thinking about the timing of my pre and post workout nutrition. The first was a series [...]
Tags:Diet·Muscle gain·Training·weight loss·Workout nutrition
Selecting your carbohydrate source
February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Training
As promised last week, this week I am doing a series of three posts to provide some more in depth information about three key nutrition areas that I have tried to target in the improvements to Chris’s diet: Omega 3 and 6 ratio Acid-base balance Different carbohydrate sources I’m explaining why these are areas to [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·Glucose·Muscle gain·Training·Workout nutrition
Acid-base balance
February 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Diet
As promised last week, this week I am doing a series of three posts to provide some more in depth information about three key nutrition areas that I have tried to target in the improvements to Chris’s diet: Omega 3 and 6 ratio Acid-base balance Different carbohydrate sources I’m explaining why these are areas to [...]
Improving nutrition for muscle gain
February 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Diet, Training
One of my responsibilities at home is to continually research and improve our own diets to enable both me and Chris to achieve our goals. Recently I’ve done quite well at meeting my own nutritional goals. However, while I have been cutting, Chris has been working on turning into the Incredible Hulk and has some [...]
Tags:acid-base·Carbohydrate·Cheap·Diet·Fish oil·Meat·Muscle gain·Omega fats·Recovery
Lessons learned this week: grip workouts
December 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Exercises, Training
Not so much lessons learned this week, as a lessons learned over the last few months. Grip is one of the most ignored but also one of the most vital parts of lifting. If you can’t hold onto a bar weighing two or three times your bodyweight, it doesn’t matter how strong your legs are [...]
Tags:Grip·Muscle gain·Training
Diet to gain muscle as a woman
November 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Diet
At the start of my weight-loss phase I wrote an article about how I was altering my diet to assist with losing weight. I’ve now started on a long muscle-building cycle (through the chilly winter months) and felt that it was only right to include an article about what has changed. Turning a weight-loss diet [...]
Tags:Diet·Female·Muscle gain·Women
