You Need to Finish What You Start
New Year’s Resolutions – did you make one this year? Have you stuck to it? For most people, the answers to those questions are, in order, “yes” and “no”. Just doing something at an arbitrary time defined by tradition is absolutely no way to govern your life. All it means is that you are choosing something, often at random, to complicate your life at a time when things may well be stressful enough already. The New Year may be a good point to decide on making a New You, but the truth is that unless you are ready, you will ...
Dos and Don’ts of Physical Fitness
Do make sure that you warm up before any round of exercise and down afterwards. If you fail to prepare with a good warm up you may well find that you tweak a muscle pretty early on and are unable to exercise for days or even weeks afterwards. Fail to warm down and you’ll feel stiff. Either way, it’s counter productive Don’t overdo things. You may feel like going the extra mile on top of what you had planned because you feel like you can. But a regime is a regime, and doing too much will have detrimental effects just ...
Just Keep Swimming, Swimming, Swimming
When sports players are recovering from injuries, they are often put through training that involves spending time in the swimming pool. There are a few good reasons behind this – first of all, it provides support and soothing for recovering muscles. But just as importantly the water provides them with resistance, which is excellent for building up muscles and making the sportsman (or woman) more ready to return to the competition field. If you have ever broken a major bone, you will have had to wear a plaster cast. When that cast comes off, the muscles in the area appear ...
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You Need to Finish What You Start
New Year’s Resolutions – did you make one this year? Have you stuck to it? For...
Keep Yourself Well Equipped Or Don’t Bother At All
We may have got by in the past with exercise regimes that amounted to running around...
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Things Aren’t What They Used To Be
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Dos and Don’ts of Physical Fitness
Do make sure that you warm up before any round of exercise and down afterwards. If...
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Better Living Through Technology – Better Health Too
You can do a lot to improve your physical fitness in your living room, your garden or even sitting at the dinner table, if you have the time and inclination and the needs that can be served by such a regime. But depending on the levels of fitness you may be trying to attain, there are certainly ways and means to ramp up how much you can improve on... [Read more of this article]
Kick, Punch, Chop, Get in Shape
While some people will inevitably look at martial arts as pertaining purely to fighting and strength, the fact is that more and more people are looking to the immense range of martial arts as a method of keeping fit. And they aren’t stupid, because it really does work. Take a master of karate and put them up against the toughest street brawler you... [Read more of this article]
Pilates – Try It, You’ll Have a Ball
One of the most popular methods for keeping fit in today’s society is Pilates. Developed in the late 20th century, it is a method of exercise that is designed to work on the flexibility of the human body – a major point of difficulty for many, who through jobs which involve being in a fixed position for much of the day lose a lot of their body’s... [Read more of this article]
Just Keep Swimming, Swimming, Swimming
When sports players are recovering from injuries, they are often put through training that involves spending time in the swimming pool. There are a few good reasons behind this – first of all, it provides support and soothing for recovering muscles. But just as importantly the water provides them with resistance, which is excellent for building up... [Read more of this article]
You Are What You Eat
There are many drawbacks to having a poor diet. Not only will constant takeaways and microwave meals cause you to put on weight, they will have an effect on so many other parts of your make-up that you will suffer more than you can possibly believe. The effects on the waistline are the first that people will notice, but you will also have less energy,... [Read more of this article]
Work It Out For Yourself
Getting fitter is never going to happen by itself. It will require a lot of work and discipline on your behalf, and it may also necessitate you spending a bit of money. It will be worth it in the long run when everybody you meet is passing comment on how trim you look. It’s just a matter of taking that first step. For most people, that step is to... [Read more of this article]
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