Writing
Stories, and the reasons behind them.
What happens in the studio, and the plain version of the science I get asked about most. No jargon, and nothing I cannot show you the source for.
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Story
The five minutes in the car
The hardest rep is the one you do before you have picked anything up.
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Training
Why walking is not enough for your bones
The advice to walk more and avoid heavy lifting has it close to backwards, and there is a trial that says so.
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Story
Twelve years in the same room
She did not stay because she is more disciplined than you. She stayed because of what the room turned out to be.
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Training
Your metabolism did not break at forty
You were told your metabolism slowed down. The largest study of human energy expenditure ever run does not find that.
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Story
She was already strong, and still in pain
Strong is not the same as working. It is the difference that catches out the women who have already done everything right.
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Training
Grip strength is a signal, not a target
One of the most striking findings in health research, and one of the most oversold. Here is the honest version.
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Story
The slot that never moves
She did not find the time. Nobody finds time. She took an hour and refused to give it back.
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Training
What the scale cannot tell you
The number going down is not the same as the change being good. Here is what the research says is actually coming off.
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Story
Not everyone gets to stay
The safest rooms are not the ones that let everybody in. They are the ones with a standard somebody is willing to enforce.
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Nutrition
The thirty gram rule is not real
Where the number came from, why it does not hold, and what the research actually says a woman over forty five needs per meal.
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Story
Nobody has to be the easy case
The women who worry they are too complicated to train are usually the ones who have been sent away by somebody who did not want to think about it.
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Training
The afterburn is not why it works
The afterburn is real. It is also about two hundred calories spread across a day and a half, which is not what anybody selling it wants you to picture.