Saturday, 22 Apr 2023

Which exercise?

FITT is the acronym for defining the characteristics of exercise. I talk a lot about the F (Frequency), the I…

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Saturday, 2 Apr 2022

Peripheral Vascular Disease

‘Used to be rock around the clock, now it’s limp about the block.’ Anon. Peripheral vascular disease Atheroma (‘hardening of…

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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, 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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Saturday, 27 Feb 2021

ENCOURAGING EXERCISE part 3

Getting everyone moving more The British Heart Foundation 2015 publication “Physical activity statistics” includes a number of ideas for increasing…

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Saturday, 20 Feb 2021

ENCOURAGING EXERCISE Part 2

Adults In adult life the main bar to exercise is the lack of time resulting from gainful employment and/or bringing…

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Sunday, 14 Feb 2021

ENCOURAGING EXERCISE Part 1

The need to encourage exercise Every study which has been performed confirms that the level of exercise taking in the…

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Thursday, 31 Dec 2020

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Now is the accepted time to make your annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving the road to…

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Saturday, 29 Aug 2020

PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE

Atheroma and Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) The cause of PVD Atheroma – popularly known as “hardening of the arteries” –…

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