We all know that exercise is good for us. We’d all like to be fit. In today’s world of personal trainers, smart watches, clever fitness apps, and more, it can seem a bit complicated. Sometimes “simple is best” and so here are two very simple ways to assess your fitness. Resting pulse The fitter [...]
Active living is good for us. Very good indeed. The simple truth is that you cannot be well, truly well, unless you live actively. You know that don’t you? And you’ve been active, at times, have you not? But you’ve battled to stick with it and so your life-with-exercise has been a bit of [...]
The stories are fairly familiar aren't they? You were pretty active at school, and perhaps for a few years after that, but soon settled into the form of adult living we call "sitting on the couch". Or perhaps you were a committed runner all through your 20s and 30s but then you picked up [...]
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There's a lot to be said for exercising out of the home (variety, interest, fresh air, instructors, high-end equipment, team sports, etc.) but there are also several good reasons for exercising at home (convenience, cost, family balance, privacy, etc.) and of course, pandemics create yet another reason to stay active while staying at home. [...]
You can never be too rich or too slim or too young, is a saying that most of us have heard (and yes, it can be seen to contain some discriminatory notions, but let's leave that aside for now). Let's think about age just a bit: Age, or chronological-age is how long we have [...]
The main wellness message around activity and exercise is invariably "do some" or "do more". And that's fair enough, given that more than half of us are inactive / sedentary. Exercise and activity is one of the cornerstones of healthy balanced living and we are not shy to encourage it. But what about overtraining? [...]
The human body's immune system is responsible for fighting off infection and disease. It is a very complex system that involves skin, gut, blood, specialised white blood cells, antibodies, and more. Nobody wants to be sick and so we have long sought ways to strengthen our immunity. Pandemics like HIV and Covid-19 certainly highlight [...]
Wellness, and health to a large extent, comes down to lifestyle (strictly speaking there's also genetics, age, luck, and some other factors but since we cannot control those factors, we focus on lifestyle, which we can manage). Healthy lifestyles are all about healthy habits. Most of us have a fairly good idea of the [...]
Wellness comes down to lifestyle. Healthy lifestyles build and sustain wellness, and well people live better (with more energy, enthusiasm, productivity, happiness). It's a cycle and it's a circle. So how do we build and sustain a healthy lifestyle? Books and books have been written, an endless stream of online videos can be watched, [...]
