Saturday, 4 Sep 2021
GOLF!!
The place of golf in helping maintain physical activity and good health is a somewhat…
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Saturday, 28 Aug 2021
How good are official exercise recommendations?
Last week I gave you the Department of Health’s recommendations for exercise – This week I am looking at just…
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Saturday, 21 Aug 2021
How much exercise?
So how much exercise should you take? The effectiveness of exercise is proportional to its intensity and total dose. From…
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Saturday, 17 Jul 2021
Energy Cost of Different Activities
Measuring exercise dose Last week I explained the various ways of measuring dose of exercise and I gave some reasons…
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Saturday, 10 Jul 2021
Measuring the Dose of Exercise
Units of measurement There are many ways of measuring exercise dose and the the best unit of aerobic exercise is…
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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, 19 Jun 2021
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The mechanisation of work The inevitable consequence of having machinery take over much of manual work was the reduction of…
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Sunday, 13 Jun 2021
THE DARK AGES AND BEYOND
This week I will take a sprint through the changing demands for exercise over the past two thousand years. Exercise…
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Friday, 4 Jun 2021
THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution The development of a structured society, a more settled population and the growth of agriculture changed…
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Saturday, 29 May 2021
EXERCISE – LEARNING FROM OUR ANCESTORS
The strength and mobility of early man was not developed through structured programmes, methods, or schedules, but rather was forged…
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Saturday, 22 May 2021
WHY DO WE EXERCISE?
To survive we had to be fit Animals need to move to survive and higher life forms, so-called vertebrates, have…
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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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