Cornwall holiday 2023: Preparation

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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 …

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Holiday adventures in Weymouth (Day 5): Towers, Beach life, wet feet and more Jelly fish

Colin ChambersAdventures, Family fun, Follow your dreams, Fun, Holidays, parenting, Water, Weymouth, Wildlife Leave a Comment

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:

Colin ChambersAdventures, Family fun, Follow your dreams, Fun, Hiking, Holidays, Theme parks, Water, Weymouth, Wildlife Leave a Comment

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

Colin ChambersAdventures, Family fun, Follow your dreams, Hiking, Holidays, Parks, Theme parks, Water, Weymouth, Wildlife Leave a Comment

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

Colin ChambersAdventures, Family fun, Follow your dreams, Hiking, Holidays, Water, Weymouth 3 Comments

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

Colin ChambersAdventures, Family fun, Follow your dreams, Hiking, Holidays, Water, Weymouth, Wildlife 1 Comment

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 …

Fun, food and frolics: How to stimulate your metabolism while you chow down

Colin ChambersDays out, Diet, Follow your dreams, Food, Hiking, Make you strong, parenting, Parks, steps 4 Comments

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: …

The mansion at Bletchley Park

The day I learned my grandad worked with a genius

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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

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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 …

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Weight loss in football fans from the Lancet

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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

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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 …