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 [...]
Weight loss – part 6 This is the sixth part in a series about weight loss including diet, exercise, measuring your success and keeping the weight off when you stop. Last week I spent some time looking in detail at high-intensity interval training since there is plenty of research about So far we’ve looked at [...]
