I clearly remember my first personal training client. He was a jovial overweight gentleman who desperately wanted to lose weight to keep up with his new girlfriend who was half his age. My approach, as a former endurance athlete, was to run him on a treadmill progressively further and faster. Whilst he lost weight he […]
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Is standing better for your health than sitting?
Sitting gets blamed for many things, obesity, disease and general muscular system dysfunction. There was a recent article on the Huffington Post claiming it was as bad for your health as smoking. This has spawned various attempts at solutions, one of which is the standing desk. Is standing better for your health than sitting though? […]
Change your life with Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT).
I recently read a great tweet via Paul Ingraham @PainSci pondering the possibility of ‘unfucking yourself’. What if you could hit a button that restored your factory settings and wiped away all the incidents that are to blame for your current physical state? The marathon that ruined your knee, the cabinet that you shouldn’t have […]
The number one rule of exercise and injury rehabilitation.
If you applied this one rule to every training or injury rehabilitation session, not only would those sessions be more effective, they would also be a lot safer as a result. It’s the one change that would turn every exercise class into a challenge for your muscular system, even stretching. And thinking in this way […]
Why exercise and alcohol are similar.
I was at the bar thinking, do I really need another drink? The familiar lack of self awareness that accompanies drinking alcohol and it’s subsequent affect on the amount of sense people talk was already apparent. Both me and another wedding guest were witnessing two grown men have an argument about the value of parsnips, […]