It's always wise to warm-up properly before exercise, and I extend this rule to watching exercise. So before I settled down to watch The Biggest Loser last night, I did some light dynamic stretching with an old episode of Frasier. The episode 'Frasier lite' sees the team at KACL (Frasier's radio station) competing in a [...]
Last week, as I left work I saw something amazing in the sky. It happens every year but never fails to get me all excited. It wasn't the solar eclipse, the alignment of Mars with Venus or a shooting star - it was the gradual lightening of the sky. At 5 o'clock the sky wasn't [...]
Ex-smokers are some of the biggest anti-smokers, and in much the same way, this reformed couch potato steps onto a somewhat giant soapbox when it comes to extolling the virtues of regular exercise. I love running and what it has done for me. I sometimes think that if everyone ran a few miles a few [...]
For me, how I feel about my lunchtime run reflects how I feel about running generally. The night before when I'm packing my bag for work it seems like a good idea, in the morning while I sit at my desk I try to invent reasons why I shouldn't do it, but when I actually get [...]
The show started with Angie proclaiming that 'Week two is the hardest week'. I'm sensing that either Angie or Richard will start each week's show with a statement similar to this. Maybe Week Three will be the hardest to burn calories but Week Four will be the hardest to get motivated and Week Five is [...]
It doesn't involve going outside in the rain, it can be done in the confines of the front room and you can watch TV while you do it - so why oh why do I find it so difficult to do my core strength exercises? It's supposed to make your running form better and therefore [...]
Setting a goal can have its downsides. And I don't just mean having to put in hard work to make them happen. Sometimes there comes a point when you realise that you're not going to make it and the temptation to give up on your target becomes overwhelming. So when I realised I wasn't going [...]
Today, as I slammed my front door shut and ran down the street in a rage I was reminded why I originally started running. It wasn't so that I could get fit or lose weight or run a marathon. No, it was so that I could do things like look all scerene and medatative running [...]
If you're anything like me, there's a voice in your head telling you not to run today. And there's another one that has taken on the persona of a Boot Camp instructor and is using every insult under the sun to rouse you from your seated position into a striding one. But, and I'm assured [...]
Bums were well and truly on seats last night for the first in the series of The Biggest Loser UK. Lazy boy was skeptical at first muttering something about 'exploitation', but the tried and tested reality TV format sucked him in and by somewhere around the second advert break he was well and truly hooked.With [...]