Fab Foods for Fertility and Pregnancy
04 Jun 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates Tags: nutrition, Health, Physical fitness, Mark’s Daily Apple, Low-carbohydrate diet, Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss vibrant health and boundless energy, pregnancy, fertility, Cod liver oil, Omega-3 fatty acid, Diet (nutrition)
Pregnant? Hoping to get pregnant?
Amongst the millions of other things to worry/obsess/fret about are the masses of contradictory information available on-line, in books, parenting classes, from your families, your friends and even total strangers about what you should and shouldn’t eat, what constitutes a healthy diet; this is usually followed by their opinion of what you are currently consuming and why they know best! As if we don’t all have enough to think about!
Get Fit for Summer – Week 1
30 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Diet and Nutrition, Exercise and Fitness Tags: Creating Chaos, fitness, General fitness training, Get Fit for Summer, Health, Physical exercise, Physical fitness
Hey there everyone and Happy Wednesday!
I know its almost here but the reality is its NEVER too late to get in shape! Why not join our Get Fit for Summer challenge – follow the link for the first video workout and make sure you read The Rules! before you start.
Lets make 2012 a healthy, happy summer to remember!
What do you think? Would love to see your progress…..
Stay healthy!
Get in Shape for Summer
19 May 2012 1 Comment
in Blogs from other people Tags: fitness, gym, Health, Magazines and E-zines, Physical fitness, Rachel Cosgrove
Short and sweet today!
I think Rachel Cosgrove is a great role model for women’s fitness and her articles are always interesting and thought provoking so it was a bit of a surprise to see her write one on the perennial subject of ”Get Fit for Summer” but as usual she delivered tackling the key areas that bother most women with some good nutritional advice.
Count my blessings
19 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Motivation and Positivity, My Training Updates Tags: count your blessings, fitness, motivation, Physical fitness, positivity, weight loss
I don’t really know why but it occurred to me the other night that I appear to have developed a fondness for recounting how I have failed in my health and fitness pursuit in some way, how I need to try harder and how I havent quite lived up to my own expectations.
So, I thought, why don’t I try and capture all the changes to my body that sum up what I have done, all the seemingly insignificant things that make me smile, that no one else notices or comments on.
Like this:
Living with the lion….Part 2
07 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates Tags: Calorie, Clean and Lean Cookbook, James Duigan, Lou Schuler, Muscle, Physical fitness, protein, Rachel Cosgrove, The Female Body Breakthrough: The Revolutionary Strength-Training Plan for Losing Fat and Getting the Body You Want, weight loss
It’s all very well learning to live with the lion outside your door but how about we take a leaf out his book (I know I’ve mixed my metaphors!) and learn to eat like one?
Having had my own personal nutrition/weight issue the last few weeks I have been working with Kieran to understand what is working and probably more importantly what I am doing wrong. We started with my recording everything I ate on My Fitness Pal and it wasn’t until this week that we started to discuss the number of calories and the amount of protein I was consuming. Bit of a light-bulb moment when I realised I was eating, at max, 1200 calories a day (and frequently much fewer) and Kieran realised I was only eating at max 40g of protein a day. And this is despite my training 4-5 times a week; I was quite obviously not eating enough and definitely not enough protein!
Looking at the Rachel Cosgrove book “The Female Body Breakthrough” and my other current favourite “The New Rules of Lifting for Women – Lift like a Man, Look like a Goddess” by Lou Schuler its quite clear that the consistently recommended amount of protein is around 1g per lb of LBM but that overall the amount of macro nutrients consumed should be the rough proportions of 40/30/30 of carbs/fat/protein respectively.
On that basis I need to seriously up my protein content!
