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Blog-watch: impact of the contraceptive pill on performance
I use a contraceptive pill. It makes my life easier when trying to predict the easiest time to arrange outdoor wilderness or wild-camping holidays and for my workouts it can also prove useful....
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Blog-watch: longevity
I’ve said before that my overruling life aim is to live a long and active life. Not a life where I spend the last ten or twenty years in a wheelchair, slowly becoming less and less able to function...
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Lessons learned: getting work capacity right!
It’s not often I get to write a blog post like this, but this will be a short celebration of the fact that I had learned my lesson last time I tried to increase my work capacity and workout density. I...
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Menstrual cycle on the contraceptive pill
A few months ago I did a few posts about the menstrual cycle and how it might impact on our strength, endurance and diet. In particular I was trying to get to the bottom of how I might flex my diet...
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Training and diet on the contraceptive pill
Last week I spent some time writing about what the contraceptive pill and other hormone-based contraceptives do to our hormone cycles, when compared to the natural cycle that our bodies would follow...
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Real experiences compared to hypotheses about the menstrual cycle
For the last two weeks I’ve been ploughing through some technical material on what is going on with the female sex hormones when taking hormone-based contraceptives. Last week I put some consideration...
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Can differences in bone density be seen between different activity levels in...
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...
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