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 [...]
Tags:Diet·Female·Paleo diet·Powerlifting·Psychology·Shampoo·Training·weight loss
I was really glad to have a two week holiday this summer. Usually I just take a single week but this year there has been a lot going on in life with so many parts of life bumping up against each other and creating different stresses. It wasn’t until I got away from it all [...]
It’s a bit of an odd post this week. Especially after my post a little while ago, Dedication to your Goals. I’d like to say right at the start that I am still as dedicated to my goals as I always was. However, an article by Scott Abel a couple of months ago got me [...]
Tags:Figure·Motivation·Psychology·Women
I’ve been on “holiday” this week. We were walking through the Lake District, following Wainwright’s Coast to Coast route from St Bee’s on the east coast as far as Kirkby Stephen on the west side of the Yorkshire Dales. We did the rest of the route (Kirkby Stephen to Robin Hood’s Bay on the east [...]
Tags:barefoot·Diet·Figure·Goals·Psychology·Pudding·Recovery·Self-massage·Vibrams
For the start of the New Year I am doing a few blog-watches to share with you the blogs that I read on a regular basis. Last week I divulged some of the female strength and conditioning blogs that I read. Today I’ll cover some of the diet and health-related blogs which I read, including [...]
Tags:Diet·Paleo diet·Psychology
Last week I set out the first five of my top ten tips for staying compliant to a difficult diet and therefore getting the most out of it. This week I finish off the list by addressing some of the more complicated social scenarios which can easily lead to diet failure and how to keep [...]
For the last three months of 2010 I was on a pretty strict diet. Actually, “pretty strict” probably doesn’t do it justice. At the start I was eating 970 calories a day and by the end I was on about 850 calories a day. When that’s all you’re eating, you get very particular about eating [...]
I am serious about wanting to meet national qualifying standards in powerlifting. I’m also aiming to compete one day with the British Drug Free Powerlifting Association. When I started out on this series there were several key problems, such as poor hip mobility. Since I’ve been on holiday for the last week I thought I [...]
Last week I posted up the first half of an interview with Laura Trimble, someone I went to school with who has had a fantastic Ironman season this year. In the first half of the interview Laura let us into some of the secrets of how she handles the mental aspects of the tortuously long [...]
In many ways, despite the title of my blog in which I declare that women can do the things that men do, I am also a very typical woman. In fact, one of the things I’m always interested in is what the people who I’ve met and known over the years are doing now. Yes, [...]
