I’ve been wondering about creatine for a while now. Chris keeps some in the cupboard and I’ve considered taking it from time to time. So far, despite the creatine being in the cupboard for several years, I’ve not tried it. Part of my reluctance comes from a poor understanding of what it might do to [...]
This is a useful study as a sort of preparation for future life for many women who read this blog, assuming that a large proportion of my readership is women who already train. I’m not going to go into as much detail as I usually would on the weekly study review after last week’s mammoth [...]
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
Having done one resistance vs endurance training study last week I thought I’d look at another one this week. Several of the authors are the same as last week’s study but this study was published two years later so I thought it would be interesting to see if their methodologies had changed at all. I’m [...]
While I was in the glucose and insulin area, after last week’s diabetes-related study, I thought I would step sideways into the more positive world of insulin sensitivity. If you read a lot of training blogs you’ll keep finding reference to training increasing insulin sensitivity and then getting some benefit from this by consuming certain [...]
Last year I took quite a bit of time over a series about diabetes. At the time I spent quite some time on type 1 diabetes, digging out a study that suggested this supposedly incurable form of diabetes was actually curable after all. However, when it came to type 2 diabetes I ended up giving [...]
Here’s a rather fun article I stumbled across in my hunt for more serious articles about women and strength training. It takes me out of my comfort zone in terms of the statistical analysis techniques (despite doing Maths for part of my degree statistics and I never got along that well – I was more [...]
Tags:Bench press·Powerlifting·Women
After a few weeks of studies about sedentary women, the impact resistance training can have on their weight and how good new trainees are at adhering to their training programmes, I have decided to move the topic sideways. The main reason I took up weight training several years ago was because I wanted to be [...]
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
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
