The overwhelming feeling I get when reviewing all I’ve learned about the benefits of exercise is that the most important benefit you get is the …
How can Tai Chi help my daily life? Flow more, Force less
I’ve always wanted to learn about Tai Chi but never found the time. I saw a great deal from TennisOne for a course teaching Tai …
Brain’s motor cortex uses multiple frequency bands to coordinate movement
How and why we move is a fascinating topic. We have long known that muscle movement is coordinated through systematically triggering muscles. The trigger pattern …
Exercise may slow progression of retinal degeneration
That is the finding of a study in the Journal of Neuroscience. Exercise appears to preserve the structure and function of nerve cells in the …
Can training your nerves improve athletic performance?
In the last post I asked Why train your nerves? It was a precursor to explaining the value of a healthy and strong nervous system to …
Why train your nerves?
For many years I’ve noticed the forgotten aspect of training your nervous system and the adaptations it makes to support your activity underpins all the …
Is the quality of energy supply crucial to the effects of Parkinsons and related heart failure.?
Following on from the finding that the ability of your brain to harness energy could explain age related mental decline? there is similar evidence that problems with …
Fitness: Could your brains ability to harness energy explain age related mental decline?
Everyone seems to assume that your mind must degrade with age. I’ve never seen convincing evidence for that. I simply see that increasing age requires …
Are home schooled children leaner than traditionally schooled kids?
I saw the article Home schooled children leaner than traditionally schooled kids and just had to share and keep it. It is just one study but …
What pedometer tracks daily life?
I’m looking for something cheap and simple to start tracking the steps in my daily life. I can’t believe I don’t already have one but …
Can you manage Coronary Heart Disease through physical activity?
The standard explanation of how Heart disease and stroke are caused is pretty well understood. In short the idea is that high levels of the …
Weight loss in football fans from the Lancet
Being a fan has its health implications. While it’s obvious it’s nice to know that people are actually looking into how to make it a …
Why walking is good for you
I was inspired by this excellent tweet from CDCObesity @CDCObesity Learn how walking is good for your body.http://go.usa.gov/ZvQH I’ll expand on this in time. For now …
Dealing with stomach pains from dehydration
A problem with eating certain types of foods is pain in my stomach during or particularly after intense exercise or any other time I get …
Why eating while moving can be bad for you?
Building on the idea that it’s not what you eat but the way that you eat it it’s important to explain the reasons why moving while …
How to lose weight: It’s not what you eat but the way that you eat it.
An important reason I find it easy to keep my weight down is because the way that I eat my food is different than those …
How to exercise more in normal life. Toddlers and Ikea part two
Following up last week’s visit we went back today to get one of the items we saw last week. It was another good time. Much …
What can snooker tell us about obesity? Yes, it might actually have health benefits part three
If you haven’t already read part one and part two In part three the final part of the series we put it all together.
What can snooker tell us about obesity? Yes, it might actually have health benefits part two
If you haven’t already Read Part one of this three part series. Snooker is physically a much more accessible sport than most others. Few people cannot play …
What can snooker tell us about obesity? Yes, it might actually have health benefits part one
Snooker is probably the last sport that you would consider to be in any way healthy, let alone teach you anything weight loss or how …