Yup it’s party season again. For us guys, this is an especially chaotic and disorganised time, and this is none more apparent than in the gym. At this time of year, most high street gyms look more like the Marie Celeste. It’s the perfect recipe for “exercise attrition” (read: dropping out of your fitness programme [...]
December 1, 2011, 9:37 am
The “Haiku” is a Japanese form of poetry which can be only 17 syllables long (5, 7 & 5) usually arranged over only 3 lines. The art to Haiku, lies in the above limitations that they face. Haiku Poets must strip out all the unnecessary elements of their poem, they can include only what is [...]
July 13, 2011, 12:48 pm
Wildlife Researchers & Scientists have recently coined an expression for the dire situation facing the world’s Polar Bear population, they call it “Walking Hibernation”… Walking Hibernation describes a situation, where, due to the shorter Winters & lack of available opportunities for food, Polar Bears have been forced to essentially set their metabolisms to “idle”. This [...]
June 29, 2011, 4:32 pm
What if going to the gym was more than a personal choice? What if it was part of everyday life, that society expected you to maintain a reasonable level of fitness and it was part of your “normal obligations”. In Ancient Greece this was likely the case, it was a “political expectation” to be in [...]
June 22, 2011, 11:38 am
