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
I’m halfway through that type 2 diabetes article, but it’s 21.17 on Thursday evening and with the exception of a links post that I had written but forgot to schedule, I have never had a post go out late. I’m not starting down that line if I can help it so I’m writing about something [...]
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
Some people seem to have the luck of the gods and can get away with never doing soft tissue work, other than when they are damaged or injured. I must confess that I envy these people, perhaps because I am so bad at doing my soft tissue work. However, I’ve had a recent wake-up call, [...]
Tags:Injury·Recovery·Self-massage
Yesterday we looked at why the thoracic spine should have some mobility and what problems may occur if it loses that mobility. Today I’m going to briefly look at an example of how poor thoracic mobility can specifically have an adverse impact on powerlifting and then I’m going to work through some common stretches designed [...]
Tags:Injury·Mobility·Powerlifting·Recovery·Self-massage·Thoracic·Training
I mentioned in my Powerlifting Progress post on Sunday the problems that I’ve been having with knots in my lats and rotator cuff muscles (and my rhomboids and deltoids and… the list is endless). In fact, any muscle above my waist, with the exception of my spinal erectors, facial muscles and forearms, were solid with [...]
I mentioned the other week that I had some interesting side effects from the cycle touring holiday. In particular my legs really suffered. I thought I’d set out here what happened and what I believe caused it. You can let me know if you agree with me. Exercise on the holiday The holiday involved a [...]
Posture should be of huge importance to everyone. Not only does good posture give you the ability to really show off your body, it also helps to prevent chronic long-term injury to your body. A particularly prevalent result of poor posture in women is dowager’s hump. That well-recognised slouch where the lumbar spine curves in [...]
As I explained previously, my Christmas wish list includes the unusual request for some foam pipe lagging in an effort to perfect my self-massage kit (and to put something cheaper than a pair of Vibrams on the wish list). I’ve already set out the tools I would recommend you have in the ideal self-massage toolkit, [...]
Tags:Recovery·Self-massage
My Christmas wish list, along with the usual books, DVDs and bits of kitchen equipment (and the much more expensive Vibram Five-Fingers) has a request for some foam pipe lagging. I could easily get this myself from the local DIY shop, a few metres of it would only cost 30p, but it’s always good to [...]
Tags:Recovery·Self-massage
