Saturday, 8 Feb 2025

Muscular Strength & Endurance (MSE)

The Department of Health advises us all to perform at least 150 minutes moderate intensity activity, 75 minutes’ vigorous activity,…

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Saturday, 28 Sep 2024

Frailty – prevention

In my last blog I defined (rather imprecisely) frailty but I failed to tell you how you might check yourself…

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Saturday, 10 Sep 2022

Strength training

  It is time that you had a rest from my weekly diatribe and got a new perspective. I am…

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Sunday, 17 Apr 2022

Stroke part 2

Last week I described the nature of a stroke, the underlying causes and some of the devastating consequences. Prevention and…

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Saturday, 3 Jul 2021

OXYGEN UPTAKE AND TRANSPORT

VO2 and VO2max A few points from last week’s Blog as a recap: 1. Aerobic exercise means exercise fueled by oxygen.…

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Saturday, 26 Jun 2021

OXYGEN AND VO2max

Fueling exercise I have described the importance of oxygen for fueling exertion, but it was a long time ago –…

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Saturday, 15 May 2021

WHAT TYPE OF EXERCISE?

Aerobic or isometric? Nearly all exercise involves a mixture of aerobic and isometric effort though one or the other usually…

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Saturday, 8 May 2021

BEFORE AND AFTER EXERCISE

Warming up  For any exercise you are advised to warm up before starting – for anything from a few minutes…

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Friday, 30 Apr 2021

MUSCLES AND EXERCISE

Exercise and physical activity: I have a few more thoughts about the subdivisions of physical activity, stimulated by an article…

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Saturday, 24 Apr 2021

EXERCISE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

This Blog is all about exercise and physical activity – what it is, what it does to you, how is…

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