Women-specific training issues, thoughts and articles
- Women can do pull ups too
- Periodization and your menstrual cycle
- Women’s strengths
- Blog-watch: the female athlete triad
- Does size matter?
- Woman in a hotel gym
- Blog-watch: optimal female training
- Lessons learned this week: the menstrual cycle and making workouts more challenging
- Why do women start weight training?
- Blog-watch: recent bone density research
- Blog-watch: should women run?
- Blog-watch: impact of the contraceptive pill on performance
- Wearing gloves: a confession
- Lessons learned this week: incontinence
- Blog-watch: pregnancy and workouts
- Blog-watch: pregnancy diet and exercise
- Lessons learned: incontinence and prolapses
- Lessons learned: exercise and the menstrual cycle
- Blog-watch: acid-base and bone density
- Female athletic injuries
- Blog-watch: pregnancy updates
- Weight training women
- Blog-watch: some pregnancy articles
- Work-Life balance
- Blog-watch: incontinence
- Krav Maga
- Attitude to your figure (part 1)
- Attitude to your figure (part 2)
- Blog-watch: should women train like men?
- Blog-watch: Bret’s female strength levels
- Iron Lady: interview with Laura Trimble (part 1)
- Iron Lady: interview with Laura Trimble (part 2)
- Blog-watch: Dec 2010 pregnancy updates
- Blog-watch: female strength and conditioning blogs
- Blog-watch: glute development
- Impact of menstrual cycle on exercise: recent observations
- Blog-watch: interaction of diet and exercise with the menstrual cycle – part one
- Blog-watch: interaction of diet and exercise with the menstrual cycle – part two
- Sports bras
- Interview with Alli McKee (part 1)
- Interview with Alli Mckee (part 3)
- Interview with Alli Mckee (part 4)
- Blog-watch: pregnancy latest
- Menstrual cycle on the contraceptive pill
- Training and diet on the contraceptive pill
- Real experiences compared to hypotheses about the menstrual cycle
- Celebrating female strength
- Blog-watch: interviews with strong women
- Wearing gloves
- Does caffeine improve bench press for women?
- Influence of moderately intense strength training on flexibility in sedentary young women
- Adherence to a strength training intervention in adult women
- Strength training and adiposity in premenopausal women: Strong, Healthy, and Empowered study
- Can differences in bone density be seen between different activity levels in a female population?
- Barriers and Motivators for Strength Training among women of color and caucasian women
- Considering body mass differences, who are the world’s strongest women?
- Influence of resistance exercise training on glucose control in women with type 2 diabetes
- Effects of resistance training and endurance training on insulin sensitivity in nonobese, young women: a controlled randomised trial
- Effects of endurance and resistance training on total daily energy expenditure in young women: a controlled randomised trial
- Body composition and strength changes in women with milk and resistance exercise
- Effects of single- vs. multiple-set resistance training on maximum strength and body composition in trained postmenopausal women
- The effect of creatine supplementation during resistance training in women
- Blog-watch: stress and body fat
Body composition workouts
- What exercise is best for losing weight – Part 1
- What exercise is best for losing weight – Part 2
- Blog-watch: All about the glutes
- End of a (cutting) era
- Setting (and changing) your goals
- Increasing work capacity
- Fat strip January 2010: the exercise
- Fat strip January 2010: overcoming problems and the results
- Improving nutrition for muscle gain
- Blog-watch: recent glute news
- Blog-watch: Chad Waterbury
- Wedding preparation fitness – interview
- Blog-watch: glute development
- Muscle gain without fat gain
- Interview with Alli Mckee (part 3)
- Interview with Alli Mckee (part 4)
- Blog-watch: glutes news
- Willpower limitations
- Effects of endurance and resistance training on total daily energy expenditure in young women: a controlled randomised trial
- Effects of single- vs. multiple-set resistance training on maximum strength and body composition in trained postmenopausal women
- Blog-watch: stress and body fat
- Cortisol and fat loss – personal experience
- Weight loss – Introduction
- Resistance training for weight loss
- High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
- Exercise for weight loss – other considerations
- Weight loss progress and ongoing success
Recovery and injury prevention/treatment
- 15 Ways to Survive a Desk Job – Part 2 (workouts)
- 15 Ways to Survive a Desk Job – Part 3 (clothing)
- Lessons learned this week: Mobility drills
- Blog-watch: some postural advice from Mark Sisson
- Lessons learned this week: the art of relaxation
- Lessons learned this week: injuries and basic anatomy
- Paleo diet for recovery
- Self massage toolkit
- Using a self-massage toolkit
- Lessons learned this week: layering up in the gym
- Blog-watch: should women run?
- Lessons learned this week: developing mobility drills
- Cortisol
- Lessons learned this week: incontinence
- Blog-watch: barefoot health
- Blog-watch: exercise for mental health and brain development
- Lessons learned: improving posture
- Lessons learned: sleep
- Blog-watch: barefoot running update
- Lessons learned: training outside the box
- Training frequency, rest and fatigue
- Lessons learned: dehydration
- Female athletic injuries
- Lessons learned: the benefits of variety
- Lessons learned: office survival
- Blog-watch: lower arm strength
- Lessons learned: side-effects of building muscle
- Lessons learned: regular physical assessment
- Lessons learned: good back squat form
- Blog-watch: incontinence
- Barefoot shoes
- Blog-watch: sleep
- Thoracic spine mobility (part 1)
- Thoracic spine mobility (part 2)
- Impact of artificial light on sleep
- Blog-watch: foot health
- Blog-watch: latest sleep round-up
- Vibram Five-fingers (VFF): outdoor-review
- The importance of soft tissue work
- Hepburn routines: strength and power
- Self massage for a busy life
- Magnesium: a follow up
- Can differences in bone density be seen between different activity levels in a female population?
- Quantitative heel ultrasound variables in powerlifters and controls
Exercises
- Women can do pull ups too
- How to do the Rope Upright Row
- Blog-watch: introducing the Turkish Get-up
- Blog-watch: All about the glutes
- Glute Guy workouts
- Lessons learned this week: grip workouts
- Core workouts (Part 1)
- Core workouts (Part 2)
- Core workouts (Part 3)
- Blog-watch: Turkish Get-ups revisited
- Blog-watch: recent glute news
- Romanian deadlift (RDL)
- Blog-watch: pull ups
- Glute bridges
- Hip thrusts
- Lessons learned: good back squat form
- Why I squat
- Blog-watch: glute development
- Hepburn routines: strength and power
- Video-watch: bums tums and thighs (part 1)
- Video-watch: bums tums and thighs (part 2)
- Pendlay rows
- Blog-watch: glutes news
- Deadlift
- Does caffeine improve bench press for women?
- Quantitative heel ultrasound variables in powerlifters and controls
Powerlifting progress series
Miscellaneous articles
- Women’s strengths
- Does size matter?
- Product review: Mooncup
- Increasing work capacity
- Cheating
- Lessons learned this week: layering up in the gym
- Lessons learned this week: stress and lifting
- Top 10 posts: Christmas 2009 round up
- Cortisol
- Lessons learned this week: incontinence
- Lessons learned: mental strength
- Top 10 albums for gym workouts
- Blog-watch: exercise for mental health and brain development
- Selecting your carbohydrate source
- Workout nutrition: timing
- Blog-watch: gut health and fermented foods
- Workout nutrition: protein, fat or carbohydrate?
- Blog-watch: recent glute news
- Lessons learned: low-carb diet for endurance exercise
- Lessons learned: training outside the box
- Blog-watch: how should we run?
- Pod-watch: The Paleolithic Solution
- The placebo effect
- Lessons learned: workouts to suit your body
- Blog-watch: memory enhancers
- Lessons learned: getting work capacity right!
- Lessons learned: office survival
- Lessons learned: the benefits of being fat adapted
- Lessons learned: summer sleep cycles
- Top ten benefits of having a home gym
- Top ten problems with a home gym
- Lessons learned: keeping training records
- Work-Life balance
- Barefoot shoes
- Vibram Fivefingers (VFF)
- Vibram Fivefingers (VFF): reviews
- Krav Maga
- Lessons learned: primal endurance footwear
- Instant gratification
- Impact of artificial light on sleep
- Lessons learned: positive reinforcement
- Blog-watch: the impact of stress
- Blog-watch: foot health
- Blog-watch: regaining motivation
- Iron Lady: interview with Laura Trimble (part 1)
- Iron Lady: interview with Laura Trimble (part 2)
- Blog-watch: female strength and conditioning blogs
- Vibram Five-fingers (VFF): outdoor-review
- Strength and conditioning blogs (non-female specific)
- Vibram Five-fingers (VFF):-ankle warmers
- Blog-watch: longevity updates
- Willpower limitations
- The power of self-belief: why you should ditch mental stress
- Blog-watch: stress
- Blog-watch: strength training for cycling
- Blog-watch: more cycling links
- My favourite things
- Wearing gloves
