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Blog-watch: the impact of stress

November 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Psychology, Training

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 [...]

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Powerlifting progress 2010: week forty-three (fat loss: week five)

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Training

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. When I started out on this series there were several key problems, such as poor hip mobility.  Having had some reasonable successes at the end of 2009 and some [...]

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Blog-watch: weight loss diet – the final instalment

October 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Psychology, Training

I promised a few weeks ago that I would provide some more weight loss and fat loss links for those who, like me, have embarked or are planning on embarking on a diet over the winter months.  It seems a strange thing to do in the winter but I’ve found that I generally get much [...]

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Impact of artificial light on sleep

October 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Psychology, Training

I have the good fortune to live in a village between two large towns.  While I am conscious of the light pollution of these towns when walking after dark on the hills outside the village, we aren’t close enough to notice a significant “glow” at night. Our bedroom is on the back of the house [...]

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Powerlifting progress 2010: week forty-two (fat loss: week four)

October 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Training

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. When I started out on this series there were several key problems, such as poor hip mobility.  Having had some reasonable successes at the end of 2009 and some [...]

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Powerlifting progress 2010: week forty-one (fat loss: week three)

October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Training

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. When I started out on this series there were several key problems, such as poor hip mobility.  Having had some reasonable successes at the end of 2009 and some [...]

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Powerlifting progress 2010: week forty (fat loss: week two)

October 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Training

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. When I started out on this series there were several key problems, such as poor hip mobility.  Having had some reasonable successes at the end of 2009 and some [...]

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Blog-watch: weight loss diets latest news

October 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Psychology, Training

I wrote last week that I was starting on a diet.  I’m a week into it and, as promised, I’ve collected here a batch of update articles and posts that are principally about suitable diets for fat loss. Let’s start this week with an in-depth technical review of what fat loss is.  Ryan Andrews did [...]

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Blog-watch: weight loss mind-games

September 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Diet, Psychology, Training

Last week I was staying away from home, working in London for a couple of days.  Unfortunately (or fortunately), because it was London Fashion Week, there were no cheap hotel rooms left.  Instead, I ended up in a swanky hotel room with a bed that could have slept several people, rather than just little me.  [...]

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Wedding preparation diet – interview

September 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Diet

Welcome back to part two of my interview with Vicky.  After yesterday’s marathon of fitness questions, today we’re covering diet and some interesting extra nuggets of information that Vicky has shared. NJAMW: Diet can be a bit of a trial and error thing.  When did you get engaged to Tyler and how long have you [...]

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