Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “pressure”
When you think of walking you don’t automatically think of holidays or days out wandering around theme parks or scenic villages but now that I have mentioned it you might have realised that walking is the forgotten exercise that underpins most if not all the fun things in life. Days out As my page exploring Days out testifies every day …
Do you know how you move? That’s a bit of a strange question isn’t it, I mean how often do you think about how you move? Isn’t it just a way to get from A to B? Well, not exactly. In fact, every movement you make has an impact on you as an organism as a whole and also in …
Most people save money for retirement without ensuring they will have the health and well-being to enjoy spending that money. Why not plan now how to maintain the strength and vitality that will set you up for the best retirement you can have. That way you will be investing in your health just as much as in your pension fund. …
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 it’s an important consideration. The impact of school on socialisation and health. The study makes clear these results came before the latest health standards were implemented at school but also makes clear the dependence you …
I like to think of walking as comparing it to the stock in a soup. By this I mean that it seems such a simple almost unimportant aspect of movement yet walking is the foundation of human movement because you have to learn to walk before you can learn to run or jump. It is also the most convenient form …
An important part of of this blog is about my journey of self-discovery. Figuring out who I am and then how to fit my life around me so it is fun and flexible not a limiting straight jacket. One thing I have discovered is that I am addicted to food. I don’t know many people who like food as much …
Ongoing health is about regular challenges making you strong enough to resist the pressures you face and having fast enough recovery to prevent ongoing problems.
So, something just struck me. No… nothing physically hit me 🙂 I just heard something about blood pressure that linked a bunch of information into one. I’m not sure if this is a new insight so I’m logging it here for future reference. The first thing was reading that increased potassium in the diet is associated with a lowering in …
I’ve had this idea floating in my head for weeks now. So I’m finally getting round to putting down into words. I’m excited to finally express it but I hope I do it justice. Here goes. We’re all aware of the theory of evolution. It makes perfect sense to me how pressure for resources has lead to so much diversity in …
I just came across a fascinating article suggesting that Brief exercise reduces the impact of stress. It’s a potentially profound finding. I hope in time. It proves correct. it’s great to read about how far our testing practices have come aswell to be able to make these links.
I just came across this post ‘A slow mind may nurture more creative ideas‘ from the new scientist and thought they’ve got something I couldn’t just tweet. I needed a more permanent record. It’s about new research investigating mental proceses and creativity. What’s striking is the level of detail that can now be achieved with modern techniques. They can actually …
I’ve been reading so much recently about how new business models are being created around the idea of previously scarce things such as tv and music becoming abundant. So where once it was easy to charge for access to scarce content it’s impossible to charge for content that’s abundant. The market won’t support it. It makes every one wonder what …
Got an email today, one of those that does the rounds that I read a couple of years back when some one else sent it. One of those messages that reminds you that you have more control in your life than you realise. Thought I’d include it here to remind myself where I’m going and how I’m trying to be …
Does old age represent lack of use and practice or wear and tear? I thinkboth but it’s assumed wear and tear is the biggest contributor. I don’t seethat
I saw a statistic on a web feed showing reasons for death. Most things on the list can be linked to infections and disease. So could the ability to fight disease determine life length and quality? Should we focus on improving natural immunisation and use the thymus properly while young. Or consider keeping the thymus large by training it. Taking this further I just saw an …
To explain the things happening around us I like to learn from history. I feel so many lessons of past ages can still be applied today and tomorrow if you yake the time to apply them properly. What older lesson is there than that of evolution. It’s always applied to the context of biology and how we have arrived at …
I’ve spent my life learning how to balance lifestyle with health. Everything I learn points to being active on a mental, physical and spiritual level. The activity forces you to grow. The lack of it leaves you to decay.I’ve been struggling with the common assumption that health comes from what you eat not what you do. It’s the message you …
It’s just occurred to me that I may have a way of expressing my view that there are basic movement patterns to each sport and activity. Consequently by learning these basic patterns we’d find all sports and activities easier and achieve higher skill levels sooner. That’s obviously a big ask but I got inspired whilst watching a bruce lee dvd …
Listening to an npr podcast about the human power movement I had the vision of a gym room where the lighting, audio and video are powered by harvesting the energy generting from the exercisers themselves.Just thought it would be cool if the bikes, treadmills and other machines actually fed generators which provide the rooms power. Just thought it would be …
A common cause of irreparable cell damage seems to be when it’s pushed too far. When a cell is pushed a little beyond it’s limits it grows stronger when allowed to recover. Yet push them really far beyond their limits and there seems a threshold above which many cells sustain damage they can’t fix. This was implied in my previous …