I finally decided to give into inevitability, after fighting against the 78kg squat with no progression for a week. The point of Hepburn is that you should always feel that you are not at your complete limit of lifting ability. The progress is slow and steady and you should never stall. So the fact that [...]
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I woke on Monday morning, when I should have been doing my first workout of the week, with terrible backache. I put it down to having taught violin and piano all day on Sunday. When I was first rolling in the morning I thought the problem was in my rhomboids, but I couldn’t find any [...]
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2012 has not started in a promising style. Being ill at the end of 2011 followed by a six day haul through mud and bogs had hit my numbers hard. Week two saw some improvement on week one but progress is definitely slow. The interesting bit is that I am not feeling the difficulty in [...]
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Throwing myself in at the deep end with my research plans for this year, I thought I would start with a bit of technical reading about the bench press. On my hunt for material I found a research paper in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition that seemed highly appropriate. In the [...]
Happy New Year and welcome back to Not Just a Man’s World! I hope all my reader’s have had a break over the Festive period and are feeling enthused for a fresh start on 2012, just as I am. 2011 was a tough year for me. I knew that I would be giving up my [...]
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I had a stronger week. Saturday was freezing in the gym but heavy rain all of Monday afternoon meant that the gym was surprisingly warm when I did my squats which made a big difference to my overall mental approach to the gym. Overall not a bad week, except for the whole upper body assistance [...]
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At the end of December 2009 I wrote a confession on this blog. I confessed that I was wearing gloves to do my workouts in the gym. At the time there was a lot of furore in the lifting world with lots of people writing about the fact that you weren’t a proper lifter unless [...]
The garage is starting to get unbearably cold now. Going in there on Tuesday afternoon I had to fight myself not to walk out again after finishing my warm-ups when I was still freezing cold. In fact I got through the entire workout and realised I was still wearing the two jumpers and hat I’d [...]
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With Christmas just around the corner, I thought I would take a moment to share with you the bits and pieces of kit, equipment and supplements) I’ve added to my life and then kept there because I just wouldn’t be without them anymore. The things I would classify as essentials now. With everything listed here [...]
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I keep saying in these introductions that I had a tough week but it is mostly because I really do. The thing is, each week has surprised me by being worse than the one before. The week before last finally kicked me to ground. Fortunately I’d done my workouts and written my posts for the [...]
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