I am starting to make a bit of a reduction on the Christmas weight-gain front. Halfway there despite the fact that I’m not trying particularly hard to lose the weight. This seems to support my belief that cutting it away slowly has helped me to create a new base-weight or set weight. This is a [...]
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
I’ve got a few studies in the pipeline that are related to the impact of different substances or training styles on physical performance or body composition. I decided it was time that I kicked this collection off. To start I’ve chosen a relatively recent study that is women-specific (not all of these will be, unfortunately). [...]
Tags:Bone density·Dairy·Muscle gain·Resistance training·weight loss·Women
[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
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
Some of you may have seen that the Ancestral Health Symposium kicked off a very public debate between Stephan Guyenet and Gary Taubes. They have differing views of the principle cause of obesity. In a very basic nutshell their differing hypothesis are as follows: Stephan supports the hypothesis that obesity is caused by the palatability [...]
In last week’s part of the interview, Alli McKee told us some more about herself and got us into the mindset of some of the more invisible tools in her kit for making it as a Figure competitor – a woman with determination, drive and a bagful of very motivating quotes and music for those [...]
Tags:Diet·Figure·Motivation·weight loss
I am serious about wanting to meet national qualifying standards in powerlifting. I’m also aiming to compete one day with the British Drug Free Powerlifting Association, although I’m holding back until at least 2012 for that. 2010 proved to be the year when I really nailed my hip mobility, subsequently made massive increases on my [...]
Last week, I summarised the key points from an excellent pair of articles by Jamie Scott about the links between diet, exercise and the menstrual cycle (specifically the hormones that drive the cycle). There was so much good stuff that it turned into two posts, however I’m not going to repeat anything from last week’s [...]
Tags:Diet·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Training·weight loss·Women
