Synesthesia

As I touched on in my last post, I am currently recuperating from an operation on a toe. The constraints I have are that I have to keep my foot elevated as much as possible, am confined to the house, and when I do stand or walk I have to wear a special shoe to [...]

One of the side-effects of being laid up at home after a minor operation on my foot is that I have time to read about fitness, instead of trying to get to the gym and actually do something about it… Like many people I’m a convert to the power of interval training to give measurable [...]

I’m still going to the gym, although as I mentioned I’m giving organised classes a miss for a while. I’ve been a few times since my last post, and wanted to capture some of the things I’ve (re-)discovered. It’s much easier to focus on aerobic training if you use a Heart Rate Monitor When the [...]

As I mentioned on Saturday, I’m looking for ways to get more engaged with my fitness activities, and as my new gym offers a range of classes within the monthly membership fee, I thought I’d try out a couple. First exploration was last night, when I tried a class called BodyPump™. This is described in [...]

Over the years I’ve been an intermittent visitor to the halls of fitness. From a peak in my mid-twenties when I did a lot of cycling (including a season of pretending to race!) it’s been something of a long-term decline over the last two decades, punctuated by occasional interludes of pushing back up the hill [...]