why exercise? 5 reasons to play more and live longer
Is it any wonder that exercise is so hard to keep up? The word itself sounds like hard work. Exercise is something to plan, something that must be done, something that must be measured and made harder. For many of us, exercise is a form of work, a duty, a necessary evil. Or something that [...]
10 reasons to study a martial art
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself” Chinese Proverb Three year ago I led an inactive life. I shuttled to work on a train in the dark and shuttled back again fourteen hours later. In between those journeys I worked in offices, moving from one chair to another. I looked forward to [...]
weight management visualization (new habit 3, post 2)
“In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.” Stephen Phillips Today’s visualization is about weight management. Or rather, it is about helping you let go of weight as being your real goal. As we have discovered in previous [...]
why weight-loss programmes usually fail (new habit 3, post 1)
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” Ovid For decades, we have been told that we can lose weight by adopting a low fat, high carbohydrate diet and doing lots of aerobic exercise. Recommendations typically suggest that we should undertake vigorous exercise three to five times per week. The problem is [...]
