Not Just a Man's World

I seem to be managing to keep going.  4 weeks left until Christmas and I’m sure I can make it.  I even saw some improvement on my workouts, which was a total surprise to me, especially on my mid-week workout.  Rather than put it all here I’ve put the specifics about that workout below but [...]

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This week was tough on my squats and my expectation is that it’s only going to get worse. Over the next 2 weeks I only have 2 evenings during the week when I’m home – one each week – so I’ll be doing my mid-week workout on that night no matter how tired I am [...]

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I’ve had an exhausting week, but also a very satisfactory one in the gym. We just about managed to get home on Monday from the walking trip in time to go in the gym.  Crazy, we may be, but it really paid off.  I must confess to having pretty sore feet as I tried to [...]

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Well my week finished with a very successful bag.  I’d thought that the first workout went much better than last week too but… well, you’ll see what happened there. In general this has been a much better week than the previous one and I put that down to the magnesium.  Despite the fact that I’d [...]

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This wasn’t as good a week as last week. To be fair last week was particularly amazing but I think I’m also feeling the impact of the temporary diet I’m doing (I’ll write about it some other time) and I also had a couple of particularly vicious bike rides home this week thanks to the [...]

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My second workout this week went stormingly well.  It was probably because we had a lunchtime training session at work and I had a big helping of all sorts of rubbish (they had some delicious fish goujons and had massively over-catered, so I must have eaten an entire fillet of fish-worth of these breaded fish [...]

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Not a bad week.  The Hepburn hip thrusts were helpful as I could feel my form improving as I went through the sets – the lower reps gave me the opportunity to concentrate on the form.  On the other side of the achievement line the push presses got stuck – sets of three was too [...]

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I’m beginning to feel like my lifting is getting back where it should be at last.  I’m back into the world of tweaking to ensure good form. Plan and results for last week Workout 1: (Sunday) RDL: 90kg – 6×3, 2×2 – Completed with no problems RDL: 70kg – 3×8 – I struggled with this [...]

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I was a bit off-colour at the start of the week.  I think it was probably exhaustion caused by lots of travelling, late nights and early starts for the second half of the previous week, topped off by a very long and busy day in London on the Saturday.  I should have realised it would [...]

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