Sunday, 26 Sep 2021
STARTING A SIDE HUSTLE
I am delighted to welcome another guest blogger this week – Sheila Johnson. Her contribution…
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Saturday, 18 Sep 2021
AND HOW FIT ARE YOU?
The Allied Dunbar National Fitness Survey The first attempt to assess the nation’s physical fitness was published 1990 – The…
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Saturday, 11 Sep 2021
HOW MUCH EXERCISE DO YOU TAKE?
How much exercise do we take? There are a number of answers to this question depending upon who is making…
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Saturday, 4 Sep 2021
GOLF!!
The place of golf in helping maintain physical activity and good health is a somewhat underestimated and unsung field. A…
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Saturday, 28 Aug 2021
How good are official exercise recommendations?
Last week I gave you the Department of Health’s recommendations for exercise – This week I am looking at just…
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Saturday, 21 Aug 2021
How much exercise?
So how much exercise should you take? The effectiveness of exercise is proportional to its intensity and total dose. From…
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Saturday, 14 Aug 2021
How often, how hard, how long?
How much exercise do we need? Here’s a quick guide – more or less applicable to any endurance exercise. The…
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Saturday, 7 Aug 2021
The meaning of your VO2max
Your VO2max Last week I explained how you could measure your own fitness level as your VO2max. Since you are…
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Saturday, 31 Jul 2021
Measuring Your Own Fitness
Measuring your own fitness There are a number of benefits from being able to measure your own fitness: It can…
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Saturday, 24 Jul 2021
Energy expenditure, health and fitness
Another recap Total exercise dose can be calculated as MET minutes1 or MET hours. And one MET, or metabolic equivalent,…
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