[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
I did a blog-watch last Thursday which had some posts, articles and sites which covered issues related to the interaction of diet with the menstrual cycle. However, I purposefully left off a pair of articles by Jamie Scott, also known as “That Paleo Guy”. Jamie writes an excellent blog and carries out plenty of detailed [...]
Tags:Diet·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Training·weight loss·Women
Some of you may have noticed that I went for a really high protein, low fat, low carb approach to my last fat loss diet with great effect. The logic behind that decision was that I was already very well adapted to burning fat for fuel and therefore consumption of dietary fat just went directly [...]
Last week I set out the first five of my top ten tips for staying compliant to a difficult diet and therefore getting the most out of it. This week I finish off the list by addressing some of the more complicated social scenarios which can easily lead to diet failure and how to keep [...]
For the last three months of 2010 I was on a pretty strict diet. Actually, “pretty strict” probably doesn’t do it justice. At the start I was eating 970 calories a day and by the end I was on about 850 calories a day. When that’s all you’re eating, you get very particular about eating [...]
