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Down the Gym

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

I used to go to a gym (a bit), but had a few problems with it. The main thing being that I found that it took time out to get there and back in the first place. My time was precious and I wanted my exercise to be as time and cost effective as possible. [...]

Big Fat Lies III – Starch

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Hannah Sutter says that the government is wrong (based on various researches) to advise us to eat lots of starchy foods like rice, pasta, bread etc., because our lifestyles tend to be sedentary these days. This advice to eat starchy foods is flawed because starches (rice, pasta, bread, cereals etc) readily turn to glucose, which [...]

Big Fat Lies II

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Hannah says, as we saw in the first Big Fat Lies post, that the government is telling us to EAT LESS and EXERCISE MORE! She goes on to say that despite (from 1997 to 2004) a reduction in calorific intake; an increase in consumption of (recommended) fruit and vegetables, and an increase in (recommended) exercise [...]

Big Fat Lies

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

I read an article in a newspaper recently (Daily Mail – “The Big Fat Lies about Britain’s obesity epidemic” – by Hannah Sutter) – the title speaks for itself. Hannah Sutter is lawyer by training yet has obviously spent a lot of time researching, and has concluded that the Government’s guidance on this issue is [...]

Muscle control and muscle shake

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

One aspect of muscle control exercise is the concentration on contraction of the specific muscle being exercised. If the intensity of the contraction on any muscle causes that muscle to shake, then you have gone too far – back off, perform the exercise with less intensity. If the muscle shakes even with very low intensity [...]

Don’t get wet – and other damage

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

I was in my car driving through the park to the place where I wanted to start my run (yes I mostly drive to the park – living in the city, I prefer to run surrounded by greenery rather than exhaust pipes when I can), when I saw something strange – someone (an attractive blond [...]

Skip or Skip?

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Don’t do Rope Skipping myself (I stick to a bit of running and my Easy Fitness exercises – don’t have time for everything!), but I feel sure that it is great exercise. But what about skipping without a rope. You know the sort of skipping along that kids do – looks a bit like the [...]

Let the pedometer take the strain?

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Saw a thing in a newspaper today that said “Get in shape and shed the pounds with this…….pedometer”. It also said that “10,000 steps a day is recommended by many health experts” – are there any health experts out there who could reinforce this for me? I would think that any incentive to move about [...]

The Six Pack Show

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

There was a bit on TV the other day which was about the pros and cons of men (only men!?) aspiring to have a “six pack”. The presenters seemed to be prepared to be neutral, a Personal Trainer argued for and a journalist argued against. The Trainer’s stance (we’ll call him Mike) was that whether [...]

Metabolism and weight loss

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Been reading a lot about this lately in order to try and see if there is a consensus. Not really, a lot of “scientific”? (not being rude here, but who knows how genuine they are?) articles do come up with the same sort of stuff liberally laced with all sorts of scientific sounding words. But [...]

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