The idea of someone doing weight training brings a vision of a muscle packed young man, shiny and sporty being glistened a by nubile females on the beach. Hardly useful for those of us not too happy about rolling up the trouser leg because of the varicose veins.
Weight training can hold back the years
Funnily enough [...]
I want to do more exercise but what do I choose? I haven’t done much for a few years and don’t know where to start looking. I know it’s good for me I just don’t know where to start.
First have a look at yourself.
If you play squash several times a week or you go climbing [...]
Walking is wonderful exercise. It is one of the most easily accessible forms of exercise that there is and can be one of the most sociable. It is a great way to keep healthy and improve fitness. It helps you to get into shape by burning calories. A nine and a half stone person walking [...]
It is interesting to report that over 22% of the population swims for exercise at least once a month (the highest participation of ant sport), a number that is increasing rapidly. Understandably when you look at what this form of exercise has to offer, particularly for those of more mature years. It improves all round [...]
Massage involves different types of touch applied to the skin or underlying tissues. It is manipulation of the soft tissue to release muscular tension and pain, to relax the body and enhance well-being. Considered a holistic healing therapy it can have specific benefits both to the mind and the body. Whilst massaging the therapist uses [...]
We all have I, or at least most of us. Those friendly love handles, the cuddly look, the acceptable middle age spread, squeezing into the size 14 when we should be a happy 16. Perhaps we just go big and happy. They do say, however, that so many people have become overweight the problem has [...]
Acupuncture is a popular and well-established form of complementary medicine. It is an ancient Chinese medical procedure involving insertion and manipulation of needles at more than 360 points of the human body. Acupuncture needles dating from 4,000 years ago have been found in China. The procedure was developed in response to the theory that there [...]
Ok. Things are beginning to hurt. My knees hurt when I get up, my back gets easily jolted and I feel a bit stiff. I’m getting old so I have to put up with it and that’s the way it has to be. I’ll sit down and have another cup of tea.
But, perhaps not.
Our bodies [...]
