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This Girl Can
So a UK government body has released the 'This Girl Can' campaign, to try and encourage women into fitness (you can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN7lt0CYwHg ) What do you think? I have mixed feelings about it (which are echoed across the media). While the promotion of fitness is of course a…
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Calls to lower BMI thresholds for some
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25829083 Yet again BMI measurements are shown to be flawed. Surely it's time for health authorities to abandon it and just use other measurments, such as BF% to measure health.
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Truth About Food - Diet Special
On channel 4 tonight, it started at 8pm but is worth a look on catch-up. They are actually doing some good myth busting on artificial sweeteners and detoxes. OK so it's actually called Food Unwrapped...now go watch.
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Question for long distance cyclists
I'm shortly treating myself to a new bike and I am considering entering a charity cycling event in its honour. This is a 77 mile flat to undulating course taking place at the end of September. How much training time do you think would be necessary to build up to cycling that distance? Just wondering if this gives me enough…
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Starting st
Arg stupid iPad typing, Starting Strength... I think it's about time I read this but being in the UK imported copies cost £££s with even 2nd hand ones selling for around £40. Has anyone read the Kindle edition and is it an acceptable version or should I fork out and invest in a hard copy?
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Pancake Day - how do you eat yours?
I'm having mine with Swedish glace, mixed berries and maple syrup.
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Selectable Dumbbells
I'm looking into getting a pair of selectable dumbbells. Does anyone have any recommendations for ones they have expeience with? I'd like them to be easily adjustable so there's not too much faffing around between different exercises and with a good variety of weight choices from 5 kg up to around 25 kg per dumbbell. TIA
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Calling All Cathletes
Hello So I'm thinking about adding to my ever-expanding home gym and investing in some Cathe so I'm looking for recommendations and have a couple of questions. Firstly, I live in an apartment so I can't really do too many workouts at home that involve lots of jumping around for fear of annoying the nice elderly lady who…
