A few weeks ago I wrote about the connections between stress and body fat. I’d been doing some reading about it last year after finishing my 2010 autumn weight loss stint when I spent 3 months on a very hard fat-cutting diet. Traditionally I have found that I’ve carried a lump of fat just above [...]
Tags:cortisol·Diet·Figure·Stress·weight loss
One of the biggest reasons I gave up my desk job was to reduce the stress in my life. I would like to live as healthy a lifestyle as I can manage and decided that I could arrange my life so that I didn’t need the level of income that came from a five-day-per-week high-hours [...]
Tags:cortisol·Diet·Figure·Psychology·Rest·Stress·weight loss
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’ve had quite a few questions from people since my post about the lifestyle changes that I’m making asking how I fit it all in. Honestly I didn’t know and, out of interest, I kept a very detailed timetable of my life for 5 weeks a couple of months ago to find out. How to [...]
The other week I alluded that there were lots of things going on in my life. This was impacting on the time I had available for the things I wanted to do, such as writing blog posts, researching technical material for the blog, getting my workouts in and so on. At the time I said [...]
Following on from last week’s article about my state of mental health in relation to stress I thought I might do a bit more about the subject of stress. When I reviewed Robb Wolf’s book, The Paleo Solution, I explained that one of the areas that hit us both hard, especially Chris, was the chapter [...]
Tags:Mental strength·Stress
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 [...]
I’ve seen a few pregnancy-related bits and bobs over the last few months so I decided to pull them together in one place for those who want to know about such things. There seem to be lots of pregnancies among my friends at the moment – probably something to do with my age. We’re all [...]
I get stressed far too easily and I’ve found that my stress levels correlate with poor performance in the gym as well as mental fog and all the usual things that I expect from high stress days. It’s worth noting though that I don’t often suffer from poor sleep when stressed, I just wake up [...]
Tags:Diet·Insomnia·Motivation·Muscle gain·Recovery·Rest·Stress·Training·weight loss·Women
Last weekend I cracked. On the Saturday I finally admitted a temporary defeat and decided to completely re-write the training program from scratch. I had two main reasons: work-related things at the moment mean that it would be handy to have a bodyweight equipment-free workout that will be effective and which I can bring out [...]
