Just because it gets harder to blow out all your birthday candles doesn’t mean you have to accept getting weaker. Every month there seems to be more evidence why we should all be doing strength training as we get older, both...
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Up for a quiz? I call it ‘Craze, credulous or crap?’ See if you can spot which features of these so-called health and fitness trends for 2019 are for real.
Shopping addiction is real. As the bills come in for Christmas and sales shopping, for most it’s evidence of a little overspending. For others, it’s confirmation of much bigger and far-reaching issues.
Life – like a metre-wide bouncer in front of an 80cm-wide doorway, it often gets in the way of good eating and training plans. Here are some strategies to get you back on track. It’s not ‘all or nothing’ Quit...
You can look at your nutrition, your pills, teas, massage, cryotherapy and the type of compression you wear, but when it comes to recovery for better performance, sleep is the best tool you have. It’s free, it takes little effort,...
Let me stop you right there. Unless that sentence ends with “start training to be on the national gymnastics team”, “hang out in the high school playground at lunchtime,” or “become a flight attendant for Emirates Airlines”, then no, you’re...
Many people – typically athletes and more active people – like to believe that exercise can decrease stress, make you attractive, help eliminate poverty and create world peace. Well, guess what? It can also reduce cholesterol. This flies in the...
The smart people know what’s up. World leaders, business tycoons, academics, creative thinkers – you’ll see many of them keeping up regular exercise no matter what crises or challenges are going on around them. You think they do it so...
Side stitches have been one of the more nagging and misunderstood pains in sport. In fact, it was once believed that stitches were the result of the gods of sloth, such as Aergia (Greek), Murcia (Roman) and Fegor the Overlord...
It seems too good to be true – a doctor takes a little blood, separates the protein-rich platelets (PRP), and after a few injections, you’re on your way to recovering from nasty soft tissue injuries. Can we get an hallelujah...
Friends are like life buoys. Good ones are right there when we need them, they keep our head above the surface and help us out of troubled waters. Or you can just hang out with them and sip margheritas while...
How could something that can feel so close to dying actually help you live longer? This is one of the great mysteries of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) that countless studies over the last decade have attempted to unlock. The good...
