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  • Exercise prescription

    Exercise form – informed?

    January 13, 2020/

    Locking it up 963 words – estimated reading time: 4mins, 50s. One of the things (and there’s a lot) that really perplexes me with exercise is the range of rules and guidelines that surround exercise and exercise technique. What I’m…

  • Critical thinking,  Exercise prescription

    ‘Habadaptation’: Tolerating or adapting?

    February 27, 2019/

    803 words ~ 4 mins to read I’ve been stretching on a daily basis for over a year now; just 5 minutes and just my hip flexors and hamstrings. I’ve been doing the stretching just to test out the concept of…

  • Exercise prescription,  Goals

    Is that a goal or a gaol?

    October 12, 2018/

    Goals are for losers?? A few months back I read Scott Adams ‘How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big’ – what a great read! If the name is unfamiliar, Adams is the creator of the office-humour cartoon…

  • Critical thinking,  Exercise prescription,  Fitness,  Sociology of pain,  Workout ethic

    A workout ethic – what have we become?

    August 25, 2018/

    Blurring lines For over 25 years I had the privilege of teaching two college courses; one on exercise prescription for fitness and health, and the other on strength and conditioning that focused on athletic populations. New research emerged, ideas and…

  • Exercise prescription,  Functional exercise,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity,  Strength & conditioning

    From my inbox

    August 16, 2018/

    Turns out I’m a bit of a research magpie. I pick up shiny looking articles and store them away – just in case! My nest was getting a little crowded, so I spent most of last week tidying up my…

  • Exercise prescription,  Fitness,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity,  Professional development

    Do As I Say

    July 4, 2018/

    So much information Could I have been that arrogant, that stupid? Turns out yes I could – in spades! In fairness, I’d been raised on a steady educational diet where knowledge was king; knowledge was power. It never occurred to…

  • Bone health,  Exercise prescription,  Fitness,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity

    Bone Health & Exercise

    June 29, 2018/

    I recently downloaded a PDF  ‘Osteoporosis and You’ from the Osteoporosis New Zealand website. Fifteen pages of content, with barely half a page of non-specific exercise information, yet they somehow managed 2 and a half pages of dietary guidance for…

  • Critical thinking,  Exercise prescription,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity

    1 in 10

    June 1, 2018/

    When UB40 sang ‘I am the one in ten’, the song was one of despair – despair at the then unemployment rate in their part of the UK. I happened to get really agitated a few years back over another…

  • Exercise adoption,  Exercise prescription

    Landing it!

    December 12, 2017/

    I don’t believe there are any magic exercises or quick fix solutions with exercise – I certainly haven’t discovered them yet! But….. there is one fundamental principle that I think is vital for successful exercise – that principle is PERSISTENCE.…

  • Exercise adoption,  Exercise prescription

    A love story: You & exercise.

    December 12, 2017/

    Physical activity and exercise are popular these days. Well, they’re trendy to talk and read about but seems that they are not so popular to actually do. Becoming and staying active can be hard and a real challenge for some…

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