Author: martinjamesphd
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I won a raffle…I didn’t enter!
So yesterday I discovered I had won a TV in a raffle. What made this something of a surprise was that I hadn’t entered one. Turns out I was entered by colleagues which was awfully kind of them because I won the grand prize. 🙂 It’s the first time I have won anything in a…
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Diet dashboard week #7
The changes week to week are small and incremental but over the course of several weeks they’re significant. Of the weight loss charted in the dashboard over 8lbs of the total loss has been body fat, I’ve gone from around 49lbs to 40lbs in seven weeks. The good news is the boring bit is done,…
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Results are in!: Diet week #7
In a chat with a friend yesterday I observed that the changes in my body are racing ahead of the changes in my weight. My waist in particular is shrinking rapidly whilst my biceps seem bigger, filling my shirt sleeves. Maybe this is wishful thinking but I’m seeing rewards and feeling progress and this is…
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A week in workouts (29th June – 5th July 2020)
This is the first week I have executed my full weights schedule in 2020, the first of many I’m sure. Generally I felt stronger and performed better than in prior sessions. I look forward to establishing a settle pattern of weekly workouts, carefully tracking performance and attainment. I’ve had enough of on and off, from…
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Aspirations for July
CALORIE DEFICIT With 27 diet days falling in July and a 2,000kcal per day calorie deficit target, I should have a total deficit of 54,000 calories by the end of the month. It’s reasonable to expect that I can beat this target, especially if I execute my full workout schedule (see below). WEIGHT LOSS In…
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June 2020 in review
It’s easy to set macho targets, it’s less easy to achieve them. At the beginning of June I clarified 5 core objectives for the month. 3 out of 5 ended up as resounding successes (see photo montage), 1 of 5 was a narrow miss and the final target was 9% off (see “resource management” below).…
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Overview: diet week #6
As can be seen from the picture montage I had a great week. Extra retained water – probably due to the mini heat wave – stopped exceptional underlying change directly translating into equally exceptional overall loses. Most remarkably I lost 4.5lbs of body fat and gained 1lbs of muscle in a single week! These are…
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Transformation era ride #3
My thighs were still a little stiff from Monday’s legs session but I opted to get out and put in 20 miles anyway. Again there was a decent bit of wind but I was pretty quick asides from the last few miles. DATE Friday 26th June 2020 BIKE Turbochicken CONDITIONS Fair, windy (15mph) DISTANCE 21.2…
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“The Dark Side of Management” by Gerald Hanlon
I knew Gerry Hanlon from my undergrad days at the University of Nottingham. I can’t remember the name of the module but I do remember it as one of my earliest introduction to many classic works I now know inside and out: Braverman’s Labour & Monopoly Capitalism, Burowoy’s Manufacturing Consent and Richard Edwards Contested Terrain…
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Transformation gym session #4
Given that I’m newly returned to weight lifting it’s a matter of training whatever body part isn’t sore. My upper body was OK today so I thought I would do my inaugural back session combined with chest, which I did in my first Transformation era session. I threw in two shoulder sets which I didn’t…
Dr Martin James 