Over the last few years I’ve made a lot of changes to my life – this is a brief piece that was originally an introduction to another post looking at the changes to my life. After all, with the New Year approaching this is the traditional time for self-analysis. ***** Go back four or five [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Fat adaption·Muscle gain·Paleo diet·Resistance training·Self-massage·Stress·Vibrams
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags:Fish oil·Glutes·Magnesium·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Resistance training·Supplements·Vibrams·Vitamin D·Women
It has been a while since I last did an article focussing solely on those really strong women out there. However, lots of them have been interviewed on sites across the internet recently so here is some inspiration for all the women who read this blog and fight the iron. The most noticeable thing they [...]
If you have been reading my blog for a while or have read my “about me’ page, you’ll know that I like cycling and, with the exception of last winter, I do a reasonable amount of it. There have been some particularly interesting cycling articles recently and I like to think (perhaps very misguidedly) that [...]
As you may know, I’m away on holiday and should be just over halfway through my thirteen days of walking now. Monday is usually my workout post but since I should be halfway up a mountain in the middle of Switzerland today and internet cafés are rare these days, I’ve written this post in advance [...]
Tags:Female·Figure·Glutes·Powerlifting·Resistance training·Training·Women
Over the last few weeks I’ve been posting up a mammoth interview which I did with Alli McKee. So far we’ve covered motivation, inspiration, diet and contest preparation training. I really recommend you go back and have a read if you’ve not had a chance to do so yet. This week is the final installment where [...]
Over the previous two weeks I’ve been posting up a mammoth interview which I did with Alli McKee. So far we’ve covered motivation, inspiration and diet and I really recommend you go back and have a read if you’ve not had a chance to do so yet. This week, we’re moving onto the topic of [...]
Tags:cardio·Endurance·Figure·Intervals·Resistance training·Sprint·Training
I was going to write about the impact of my menstrual cycle on exercise but it was so tightly tied into the Hepburn routine I’ve been using that I thought I would start with an article about this and move onto my menstrual cycle next week. Who was Hepburn? Hepburn was one of the ultimate [...]
I’ve put it lots of times before on this blog but my overarching goal is to live a long and active life. Seriously long. The aim is to live longer than my great-grandmother who made it to 103 (and four months), but I don’t want to be sat in a chair or even lying in [...]
