I go to gym clases as regularly as I can. This does take up a lot of time for just 2 or 3 hours a week. It’s never a case of simply turning up and sneaking into the studio. There’s the going into the actual gym itself, with all those machines . . . I … Read more
Now that the seriously baffling pandemic has disappeared and we all seem to be back at work and play as we used to be, we can’t help wondering if we actually imagined the coronavirus/covid19 upheaval. It doesn’t seem possible that in a few very short months, this country was literally brought to its knees by … Read more
We use well known phrases and band them about constantly. In the dizzingly huge and quite powerful world of ‘health’ this has never been truer. There are health food shops dishing out all kinds of supplements and ‘life enhancers’ and of course on the most public video platforms there are literally thousands of good healthy … Read more
There are thousands of health & fitness videos on the main streaming channels on our tvs, tablets and phones. In fact it is near impossible to miss them. As soon as you start watching one, you watch the next and the next. It can be pretty compulsive viewing for a morning or so. As with … Read more
I have just spent the last couple of days at a festival in the nearest large town. Fascinating stuff to be sure. The point of the festival is to promote the town and the main vehicle for the fun and frovility is the river; this major attribute serves the town mainly as a lure for … Read more
When we are young and sprightly, there are generally no thoughts or concerns about not being able to balance or climb the stairs when we get old – like over 40! This is something that younger folk perhaps ought to be made aware of at that stage – an introduction and gentle reminders about the … Read more
I have always assumed we all go through phases of being healthy one minute and in the next we find ourselves hitting the biscuit tin or that bag of buttery mint sweets. Something in our make up can be very cruel at times and I know how frustrating it is to be good and virtuous … Read more
Health and the continued enjoyment of it is time consuming and only matters to some of the populaton. I am always amazed at how many of my fellow members of clubs and societies talk about these matters, and pretend they take the healthy choices, but it is patently obvious they do no such thing. I … Read more
I have recently taken up a gym membership. Not for the first time in adult life, but this one is that bit different. It all started on a long cruising holiday during which I bought some hours with a personal trainer. The plan was to remind myself how to do limbering up and balance exercises … Read more