Saturday, 5 Apr 2025
Exercise is Medicine Part 3
Prescribing exercise Although there are powerful arguments that exercise is medicine, prescribing exercise is very…
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Saturday, 22 Mar 2025
Exercise is Medicine Part 2
Prescribing Exercise You do not have to be a doctor to prescribe exercise. However, written advice about exercise often carries…
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Saturday, 8 Mar 2025
Exercise is Medicine Part 1
Here are a few quotations to support the idea that “Exercise is Medicine”: “The benefits of regular physical activity on…
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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, 25 Jan 2025
….and living better for longer
Both lifespan and healthspan are much in the medical news at present. Healthspan Healthspan – as you know or you…
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Saturday, 11 Jan 2025
Looking good……
Dear Reader The basic message which I would like you to get from my blog is that exercise is good…
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Saturday, 14 Dec 2024
How hard?
The amount of exercise, or physical activity, you take can be assessed by the three parameters – how long, how…
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Saturday, 16 Nov 2024
Preventing frailty – how much is enough?
Sincere apologies to all my readers. This blog is one week late – but I have an excuse. I have…
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Saturday, 12 Oct 2024
Frailty – are we doing enough?
Last time I told you about the current recommendations for how much exercise we should take to reduce the risk…
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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 Aug 2024
Significance of fitness test result
Last time I described the Cooper and Rockport tests for measuring your own cardio-respiratory fitness (CRF). For my money these…
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