In the last five months I’ve had two surgeries – a preventative double mastectomy and an implant exchange surgery. You can compare my coming back to a fitter body to your own fat-loss or muscle-building journey. How do you – and I – go about such a thing? For an extended time I couldn’t do any heavy strength training and my activity naturally decreased. Plus, there was some carrot cake that happened. Therefore, after a self-assessment (Part 1), I learned I’d gained 1-2% body fat and {Read More…}
Archives for July 2015
Eyes on the Prize (Part 2): Secret Rituals of Muscle Building Women
July 16, 2015 By 8 Comments
While I was in nirvana last week, doing my weightlifting thing after a four-month layoff, all the subtle techniques (or rituals – I hate the word rules) I use to get results kept popping into my head. Guys ingrained in the lifting culture already know these rituals, but for us, these training subtleties can seem mysterious and unnatural. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do them; we just need to validate the fact that women need muscle-building rituals too. These rituals aren’t optional for building muscle and strength, {Read More…}
Eyes on the Prize (Part 1): A Plan for Muscle Growth and Fat Loss
July 10, 2015 By 1 Comment
There’s really no question in my mind that by this winter, I will have rebuilt substantial muscle in my shoulders, arms, back, and legs. (Chest is another matter – right now I’m just teaching my pectorals to function in a different position after my bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction.) By this time next year, I’ll be back to where I was, if not much sooner. I can’t see into the future, but these are my goals. Now that I’m back to hardcore {Read More…}
