Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

Frailty again – and again!

I have long believed that the enormous and growing problem of frailty in later life is the chief source of…

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Saturday, 6 Sep 2025

Frailty again

The outcome of all I have been discussing over the past few blogs is the frailty of old age –…

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Saturday, 22 Feb 2025

More about strength training

Last time I talked about the Department of Health (DoH) recommendations for the amount of exercise needed to promote good…

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Saturday, 8 Feb 2025

Muscular Strength & Endurance (MSE)

The Department of Health advises us all to perform at least 150 minutes moderate intensity activity, 75 minutes’ vigorous activity,…

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Saturday, 28 Sep 2024

Frailty – prevention

In my last blog I defined (rather imprecisely) frailty but I failed to tell you how you might check yourself…

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Saturday, 10 Sep 2022

Strength training

  It is time that you had a rest from my weekly diatribe and got a new perspective. I am…

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Sunday, 17 Apr 2022

Stroke part 2

Last week I described the nature of a stroke, the underlying causes and some of the devastating consequences. Prevention and…

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Saturday, 3 Jul 2021

OXYGEN UPTAKE AND TRANSPORT

VO2 and VO2max A few points from last week’s Blog as a recap: 1. Aerobic exercise means exercise fueled by oxygen.…

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Saturday, 26 Jun 2021

OXYGEN AND VO2max

Fueling exercise I have described the importance of oxygen for fueling exertion, but it was a long time ago –…

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Saturday, 15 May 2021

WHAT TYPE OF EXERCISE?

Aerobic or isometric? Nearly all exercise involves a mixture of aerobic and isometric effort though one or the other usually…

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