Since I’m a woman and am aware that I am trying to write this blog for women, articles about pregnancy always catch my eye. Here’s a pick of some of the best or most interesting that I’ve seen recently. It seems that BBC News has been getting excited about pregnancy at the moment. The first [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Women'
Weight training women
June 24th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Training
I’m a woman and I do weight training. For many people the statement above is an oddity. Why should I want to train at weights if I’m a woman? Tony Gentilcore put it perfectly when he summarised the fact that people frequently question why a woman is choosing to do any weight training whereas nobody [...]
Tags:Bone density·Figure·Glutes·Grip·menstrual cycle·Powerlifting·Training·Women
Hip thrusts
June 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Exercises, Training
Last week I explained that I rave about Hip Thrusts and Weighted Glute Bridges because I’ve seen such amazing improvements to my glutes, both in strength and appearance, since I started dedicatedly incorporating these into my program. I wrote about how to do glute bridges as a progressive exercise and promised that this week I [...]
Blog-watch: pull ups
May 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Exercises, Training
You’ve probably noticed that pull ups are a significant part of my workout structure. This has been a conscious decision for three key reasons: as a woman there is real satisfaction in being able to do good quality reps of pull ups, rather than the partials that you so often see people doing in the [...]
Weight loss
April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Psychology, Training
Weight loss is an important subject for a lot of women. In our attempts to build and maintain the perfect figure we will almost certainly have to go through at least one phase of weight loss in our lives. This is the start of a series of posts I’m going to write exploring a range [...]
Tags:Image·Psychology·weight loss·Women
Blog-watch: pregnancy updates
April 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Training
Well everyone, Cassandra Forsythe finally had her baby a few weeks ago. Many congratulations to her and her husband! Very impressively she did a super long post all of 24 hours later to tell us all about her birth experience. I do feel a little sorry for her husband who doesn’t seem to come out [...]
Female athletic injuries
April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Training
What happens when you apply training techniques to female athletes that are developed through research carried out on young male athletes? Unsurprisingly there is an increased risk of injuries to the female athletes. That is the conclusion reached by exercise physiologist Vicki Harber from the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of [...]
Blog-watch: acid-base and bone density
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Training
Always check your references Back in February, when writing about acid-base balance, I blithely said that if acid load is too high in the diet then the body will try to rectify the balance. One of the methods the body uses, known as hypercalciuria, is to leach calcium from the bones which then neutralises the [...]
Tags:acid-base·Bone density·Diet·Women
Pod-watch: The Paleolithic Solution
April 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Training
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I have an enormous amount of time and respect for Robb Wolf. He has a great wealth of knowledge about diet and training which he has gathered together from his years of training as a biochemist and also from his equally important years of experience in [...]
Lessons learned: incontinence and prolapses
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Psychology, Training
At the start of the year I wrote about the fact that I often suffer from slight incontinence when I am doing strenuous multi-day walks. It wasn’t something that I’d told anyone about, other than Chris, so I was surprised to get an email from Mum who explained that the incontinence could also be caused [...]
