[A couple of hours late, but better late than never!] Last week I looked at an analysis of adherence to a strength training intervention in adult women. At the time I was looking at a study that was based on research done for a separate study, so I felt that it would only be right [...]
Tags:Training·weight loss
I finally decided to give into inevitability, after fighting against the 78kg squat with no progression for a week. The point of Hepburn is that you should always feel that you are not at your complete limit of lifting ability. The progress is slow and steady and you should never stall. So the fact that [...]
Tags:Powerlifting·Training
Last week I looked at a study about sedentary women doing strength training. This week I thought it might be interesting to look at a recent study that considered how well overweight and obese premenopausal women adhere to a two-year twice-weekly weight training intervention. After all, if we’re all going to get out there to [...]
Tags:Motivation·Training·Women
I woke on Monday morning, when I should have been doing my first workout of the week, with terrible backache. I put it down to having taught violin and piano all day on Sunday. When I was first rolling in the morning I thought the problem was in my rhomboids, but I couldn’t find any [...]
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A bit later than my usual posting time, but I was out most of the day so I’ve only just finished this! This was a useful study I stumbled across. I was actually looking for another bench press study, but when I saw this study my interest was piqued. Was this a study I could [...]
Tags:Arm strength·Training·Women
2012 has not started in a promising style. Being ill at the end of 2011 followed by a six day haul through mud and bogs had hit my numbers hard. Week two saw some improvement on week one but progress is definitely slow. The interesting bit is that I am not feeling the difficulty in [...]
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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 had a stronger week. Saturday was freezing in the gym but heavy rain all of Monday afternoon meant that the gym was surprisingly warm when I did my squats which made a big difference to my overall mental approach to the gym. Overall not a bad week, except for the whole upper body assistance [...]
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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 [...]
The garage is starting to get unbearably cold now. Going in there on Tuesday afternoon I had to fight myself not to walk out again after finishing my warm-ups when I was still freezing cold. In fact I got through the entire workout and realised I was still wearing the two jumpers and hat I’d [...]
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