Saturday, 11 Sep 2021
HOW MUCH EXERCISE DO YOU TAKE?
How much exercise do we take? There are a number of answers to this question…
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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, 14 Aug 2021
How often, how hard, how long?
How much exercise do we need? Here’s a quick guide – more or less applicable to any endurance exercise. The…
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Saturday, 7 Aug 2021
The meaning of your VO2max
Your VO2max Last week I explained how you could measure your own fitness level as your VO2max. Since you are…
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Saturday, 31 Jul 2021
Measuring Your Own Fitness
Measuring your own fitness There are a number of benefits from being able to measure your own fitness: It can…
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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, 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, 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, 27 Feb 2021
ENCOURAGING EXERCISE part 3
Getting everyone moving more The British Heart Foundation 2015 publication “Physical activity statistics” includes a number of ideas for increasing…
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Sunday, 14 Feb 2021
ENCOURAGING EXERCISE Part 1
The need to encourage exercise Every study which has been performed confirms that the level of exercise taking in the…
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Saturday, 23 Jan 2021
LONGEVITY part 2
Habitual exercise and lifespan I indicated last week that lifelong exercisers live longer than their more sedentary friends. Is it…
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