Do you struggle to get to the gym or stick to your diet? Are you too busy to do the right things for your health? And do you even enjoy doing the things that are supposed to make you fit? If you answer yes, then try a day out at any of the historic houses and gardens run by the …
Why Days out and holidays are great excuses to walk
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 …
Why exploring a neighbourhood is the best way to learn about it.
Do you really know what your neighbourhood is like? Do you know where the nice bits are that you would enjoy spending time in and wandering around? For years I have to confess that I didn’t and I missed out out on so much because of my ignorance. These days I have learnt to make a point of getting off …
Cornwall holiday 2023: Porthcurno: Day 1 Saturday
in my experience we are taught in mainstream culture that getting fit and healthy is hard work and very much the opposite of play. Thankfully I have had different teachers who gave me different lessons and so I grew up playing and relaxing while getting fit and healthy all at the same time. I want to teach others what I …
Cornwall holiday 2023: Preparation
Introduction We have just come back from a wonderful holiday in the lovely village of Porthcurno at the very tip of Cornwall just a couple of miles from Lands End the most westerly point of England. We had a fantastic time and in the same spirit as my series on our Weymouth holiday I want to share some of the …
Gullivers Dinosaur and Farm park: Part 2 The Farm
We carried on round the park and came to Gully’s farm. Nate was instantly impressed because there was a small park full of diggers and other toy machinery for him to play with. They had some hydraulic ones for big kids (dads) to play with in the corner but nate was happy with the smaller ones that he could ride. …
Holiday adventures in Weymouth (Day 5): Towers, Beach life, wet feet and more Jelly fish
This is the story of how I combined getting fit and healthy while having a fantastic time on holiday in Weymouth in 2015. It is still one of the best set of memories I made that year or any year but also one of the most active, playful and fun. Day 5 was a nice relaxed day with plenty of fun …
Holiday adventures in Weymouth (Day 4): Swans and beaches:
This is the story of how I combined getting fit and healthy while having a fantastic time on holiday in Weymouth in 2015. It is still one of the best sets of memories I made that year or any year but also one of the most active, playful and fun. The lesson for this day is how much benefit you can …
Holiday adventures in Weymouth (Day 3): Beach, sea life centre & Portland bill
This is the story of how I combined getting fit and healthy while having a fantastic time on holiday in Weymouth in 2015. It is still one of the best set of memories I made that year or any year but also one of the most active, playful and fun. Day 3 was another epic day of fun. More relaxed than …
Holiday adventures in Weymouth (Day 2): Durdle Door and Portland
This is the story of how I combined getting fit and healthy while having a fantastic time on holiday in Weymouth in 2015. It is still one of the best sets of memories I made that year or any year but also one of the most active, playful and fun. Day 2 of our Weymouth holiday started with a trip to …
Holiday adventures in Weymouth (Day 1): Jellyfish and Castles
in my experience we are taught in mainstream culture that getting fit and healthy is hard work and very much the opposite of play. Thankfully I have had different teachers who gave me different lessons and so I grew up playing, relaxing while getting fit and healthy all at the same time. I want to teach others what I have …
Santa and Hatton country park Christmas fayre
This was a really fun way to a lazy 8,000 steps. I basically sat down all day either in the car or in the restaurant while he was in the soft play but I ended up with over 8000 steps, plenty of calories burnt and 42 floors climbed. The true object of all human life is play. G. K. Chesterton …
Daddy, I want to see some Dinosaurs!!!!
The trip today was round the corner to the dino world part of gulliver land in Milton Keynes. It was a nice sunny day (pretty windy though ) so my wife sold it to me as an outdoor park full of dinosaurs rides and a farm. Gullivers Dinosaur and farm park was £9 each for entry, even for our 3 …
Fun, food and frolics: How to stimulate your metabolism while you chow down
Another thing you do on holiday is eat out isn’t it. In fact it can easily take up a few hours each day so it’s great if you can really maximise the fun involved. Though meal times are often situations which promote bad health and this can be exacerbated on holiday because they often put you in a situation where you are: …
Hidden adventures: Exploring Rushmere park
What do you do on holiday? Find places to play and places to eat right. And the places to play often involve plenty of Well what do you do during a normal working week? You don’t play much at work do you and you’re only good at what you do regularly so I like to use play each week and …
The day I learned my grandad worked with a genius
It’s not everyday that you find out that your grandad worked alongside a world renowned genius. I’m not sure how much you know about Milton Keynes, the city in which I live, but it continually astounds me that it is actually world famous. Not in an obvious way because plenty of people in the UK wouldn’t know where it is …
The World Cyclocross Championships Workout
Parent workouts simply means fitting your workout within your normal parenting day instead of trying to fit it into the millisecond of free time you have. Yesterday I did my parent workouts while taking mini me to the World Cyclocross Championships as they visited Milton Keynes for the first time. I couldn’t actually believe that a world championship event would be right on …
Weight loss in football fans from the Lancet
Being a fan has health implications so it is nice to know that people are actually looking into how to make it a healthier experience. Weight loss in football fans is a story assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Football Fans in Training programme, a weight loss and healthy living programme delivered to fans in Scottish professional football clubs. The …
Why walking is good for 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 …
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 less effort this time since we knew what we wanted. I took the stuff to the car and loaded it while my life and little one got their food. Worked like clockwork really. It’s not …
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