All Entries Tagged With: "exercise"
Excuses, Excuses!
‘I just don’t have time for exercise,’ is one of the main excuses Exercise Professionals hear regularly. Others range from ‘not having the money, to being a parent, to being too old, unfit or just ‘not being built for exercise’. The best one I’ve heard is: ‘My Therapist told me not to do anything active before midday.’
Treadmill Running
If the dark nights and the weather are causing you real problems why not take a look at treadmill running. In this series of articles we’ll be looking at the advantages and disadvantages as well as some training tips to help you along.
Top 10 Tips for Weight Loss
Our first fitness tip is that it’s important to exercise regularly. While that’s been sound advice for years, unfortunately very few people are following it. Only 45 percent of adults are getting the recommended minimum: 30 minutes a day, at least four days a week.
Can Exercise Help Beat Breast Cancer?
Beating Breast Cancer there is growing evidence that exercise is a major weapon in the fight against the disease. Experts recommend that women should do moderate exercise for 30 minutes each day, five days per week.
The Blonde, The Brunette and Their Blisters
Part 7 Cont
It took 20 (long) minutes to shuffle over the start line. As we had given ourselves a predicted finish time of four hours, we had been landed in the most congested pack of people, something that would later prove one of our biggest obstacles.
We started running to the sound of Frank Sinatra singing [...]
Blue Active Muscle Gel
Non oily and deeply soothing Blue Active Gel offers a dual action muscle and joint rub that immediately cools on application, but whose soothing effects last for hours
Swimming
If you are looking for a good all-round form of aerobic exercise why not try water aerobics. Running, jogging and walking underwater in a pool not only strengthens the leg and hip muscles – the quadriceps, hamstrings and gluteals – but helps to maintain and develop cardio respiratory fitness.
The major benefit to exercising in the [...]
The Blonde, The Brunette and Their Blisters
January Blues.
Even a new pair of ultra-technical running shoes cannot beat the January Blues. The extra weight of mince pies and turkey trimmings can be disastrous for the long-distance runner and ultra-demoralising at the beginning of the long uphill trek back to fitness. The weather has changed from ‘Christmassy cold’ to ‘wintry wet’ and dirty [...]
The Blonde, The Brunette and Their Blisters
Part 7
Sunday 7th November … THE BIG DAY.
Everyone was talking about the race, even before we left the country. Whilst checking in baggage at Heathrow the men behind us were discussing their training schedules.Going through airport security, the woman in front panicked because she had forgotten her trainers. And as we boarded the plane, some [...]
The Blonde, The Brunette and Their Blisters
Part 6
The clock is ticking …
There are 5 days to go and I’m in bed with flu. After six months of training, through every element, day and night, this was not part of the plan. True, we were supposed to be taking it easy this week, but this is ridiculous. I’m shaking like a leaf [...]
