The other week I alluded that there were lots of things going on in my life. This was impacting on the time I had available for the things I wanted to do, such as writing blog posts, researching technical material for the blog, getting my workouts in and so on. At the time I said [...]
My sleep has been a bit up and down recently. When things are less busy at work and I’m chilled I can climb into bed, read for a bit and then happily be asleep within minutes of putting out the light. Unfortunately, when I’m stressed and busy I find that my ability to go to [...]
Tags:Posture·relaxation·Rest·Sleep
I mentioned in my Powerlifting Progress post on Sunday the problems that I’ve been having with knots in my lats and rotator cuff muscles (and my rhomboids and deltoids and… the list is endless). In fact, any muscle above my waist, with the exception of my spinal erectors, facial muscles and forearms, were solid with [...]
Posture should be of huge importance to everyone. Not only does good posture give you the ability to really show off your body, it also helps to prevent chronic long-term injury to your body. A particularly prevalent result of poor posture in women is dowager’s hump. That well-recognised slouch where the lumbar spine curves in [...]
My “Powerlifting progress” series shows that I am starting to undo some of the damage caused by work stresses, but I’ve still got a long way to go. One of the important areas for my recovery has been focussing on my mobility drills. I had forgotten to keep adapting my mobility drills and when I [...]
Just a short one today to share with you two valuable posts that Mark Sisson has done recently on Mark’s Daily Apple. Post 1: You don’t know squat This is a post about our natural position of squatting to evacuate the bowels: the position your body really wants to be in. Having had haemorrhoids (apparently [...]
I have a system to get things done in the morning, and usually it serves me well. It involves a series of mobility drills that I do as I head downstairs in the morning. It’s a program that I adjust depending on what is needed most at the time, but it currently looks like this: Full [...]
