Saturday, 15 Feb 2020
WHAT IS PHYSICAL FITNESS?
There are all sorts of aspects of physical fitness – muscle strength, balance, flexibility to…
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Saturday, 8 Feb 2020
EXERCISE INTENSITY
To derive health benefits the national guidelines recommend using exercise to burn about 1,000 Calories per week. For weight loss…
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Saturday, 1 Feb 2020
MEASURING EXERCISE DOSE
Why measure exercise dose? You might wonder why it is helpful to regard exercise as a “dose” let alone measure…
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Saturday, 25 Jan 2020
EXERCISE AND OXYGEN
The energy required by muscles to contract is produced by complex biochemical reactions. A critical contributor to the process is…
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Saturday, 18 Jan 2020
MORE ABOUT MUSCLES
There are two broad categories of exercise. Dynamic or isotonic exercise is that which uses the regular, purposeful movement…
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Saturday, 11 Jan 2020
EXERCISE AND MUSCLES
The muscles are the body’s engines – all movement depends on muscular contraction and relaxation. The joints and limbs are…
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Saturday, 4 Jan 2020
EXERCISE – BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES
So far, dear Reader, I have been a bit haphazard in the selection of the exercise based subjects which I…
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Saturday, 28 Dec 2019
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Yes, you guessed it. Take more exercise.. It is the time to make those resolutions which will hit the fan…
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Saturday, 21 Dec 2019
EXERCISE, WEIGHT CONTROL AND CHRISTMAS
Happy Christmas everyone! But sincere apologies for putting a small dampener on the forthcoming celebrations – most of us will…
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Saturday, 14 Dec 2019
EXERCISE AND CANCER
Cancers form a very large group of conditions which are extremely common causes of disease, disability, suffering and death. Nearly…
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