8 May 2010
I enjoyed watching this short talk by Roz Savage. She describes how she decided to change careers from a business consultant to lone rower. She has already crossed the Atlantic on her own and is currently two thirds of the way across the Pacific. Until I watched her presentation I didn’t realise quite how much [...]
18 March 2010
If you fancy a stroll in the park watch out for Telegraph readers in tracksuits.
This must be one of the daftest pieces of advice I have seen on how to lose weight by exercise. To make exercise interesting the "Life Coach" in the Daily Telegraph today suggests losing your beer belly by going to [...]
28 February 2010
Go to Germany or France and any self-respecting woodland walk will have exercise stations, usually made out of tree trunks. In Spain many costal promenades have them made from steel pipes set in concrete – see images.
Not so in the UK (with one exception being the trim track at Gateshead stadium – is it [...]
10 February 2010
I’m not exactly anti-exercise but I sometimes wonder what damage people are doing by being over enthusiastic. When I was a student I was struck by the number of people I saw at the gym who were nursing injuries, it often seemed that there were more people with joint supports and bandages than without.
I [...]
6 February 2010
According to an article in the Telegraph today around 20% of the population do not get any significant aerobic fitness benefit from regular exercise.
In future you might be able to find your best way of staying healthy by having a DNA test and discovering whether you should focus on diet, exercise or taking pre-emptive [...]