Muscles McGee

As 2018 draws to a close, I take this opportunity to look back on a year which has just flown by.     Looking back on all the pictures I have taken this year, it is mad to think that 2018 is almost over. It only feels like yesterday that I was saying goodbye to 2017.   In 2017 I secured my first full-time job after finishing university and I’m happy to say that I’ve managed to keep hold of that job for a whole year! I started out as a little grad in a daunting corporate world and now, even though I often think of myself as still adjusting to full-time life, I’ve become comfortable and confident enough to incorporate my creativity into the documents that I write.  2018 has been full of milestones. After suffering with vasovagal syncope for a number of years, a heart monitor was placed in my chest to measure my heart rate for irregularities. In 2018, I finally got the OK to remove that monitor. So following some truly horrific...

Where do I start? I've spent some time away from my blog over the past few months as I have just been struggling to find the time (and motivation) to sit down and write. Sometimes life gets in the way and it can often be easy to forget to do the things we love. As I write for a living, sometimes the last thing I want to do when I get some free time to myself is write. Yet, writing can be a great way of processing events, thoughts, worries and emotions. So I have reminded myself of how much I enjoy writing for pleasure, grabbed a notepad and pen and here I am. So a lot has happened since August. I have been consistently training every week and still get excited every morning when I check to see what the workout of the day is. However, when that 6am alarm goes off and I see through blurry and sleepy eyes that the workout involves 100 burpees, I can’t say that excited is always the feeling! Training has been going well but I've had a few weeks where I just haven...

https://fatmumslim.com.au/make-life-good-12-put-inspiring-quote-wall/ What a great week of training I’ve had this week. Everything that could have gone right, just seemed to go right. I performed well in every workout I completed this week and enjoyed every second of it. On Monday, I worked up to a 1RM of 52.5kg on my squat clean when my previous had been 45kg. Without even realising (and taking lots of rests in between lifts), I managed to squat clean my own bodyweight! On Tuesday, I did 3x10 reps of deadlifts and I managed to get through this at a reasonably challenging weight of 55kg. Focusing on my form, I made sure that every rep was as perfect as I could get it, extending the legs and leaning back into it. I also completed a crazy partner WOD which was so fun, pushing myself to go at 30kg throughout. (You can find this WOD on my WOD page) On Thursday, I completed the Martin Bell hero WOD which I had previously completed in April. The previous time I did 100 dea...

http://www.boltonmarkets.com/colliers-fruit-vegetables/ Sorry to get your hopes up but I’m not talking about eating packets of Skittles or M&Ms here. I’m talking about creating a more colourful diet that will allow you to increase your daily vitamin and mineral intake.   I have recently been reading ‘The Four Pillar Plan’ by the incredibly popular Dr Ranjan Chatterjee, after listening to him speak a lot of sense on the BBC Radio 5 Live podcast, The Girl Gains. In this book, Dr Chatterjee touches upon the importance of eating a variety of different fruit and vegetables, all of different colours, to enhance your meals. Different coloured foods have been proven to optimise the growth of more beneficial bacteria in your body, as well as maximising gut-bug diversity. Colourful fruit and veg contain phytonutrients which studies have proved have a remarkable impact on your health when you consume them. Phytonutrients help to improve heart health, fight cancer cells, red...