Yes, animals need to be looked after, especially young ones, but the calves I’m talking about are your lower legs. We’ve all had calf pain. I remember growing up I used to have painful calves in the evenings - I’d call them growing pains. But then when I still had those pains in my late […]
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I reckon pretty much everyone can walk. You learn to walk from around 9 months. Lets say 12 months average - so by the age of 10, you will have been walking for 9 years. Thats a lot really - and considering walking is our main mode of small transportation (think around the home, at […]
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Aerobics. Images of lycra-clad women with big hair, earrings and blue eyeshadow spring immediately to mind. Retro beats pump out from the stereo as the high-riding stretchy girls step incessantly in their funky Reeboks. With bright hair bands to hold their massive ‘do in place, sweat seems to be non-existent and you get the feeling […]
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I just spent 40 minutes on a stationary bike. I cycled about 12.2 km in that time - so I wasn’t really pushing myself. Actually, I alternated between talking to a friend and reading a magazine. So it was rather laidback. However, it still burns calories! And I was aching when I got off! I […]
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We’ve all exeperienced it right? You think to yourself, yesss I’m going to get back into working out… So you do and you go hard because you want to make that effort and you want to see that difference - fast!
Next day you feel fine. Then when you collapse into bed, you start feeling a […]
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I like kettlebells. Ever since I bought my lovely 26 pounders I’ve really enjoyed working out. It took me a while to work up to the amount of reps I wanted to do - but now I’m getting there and wondering if I need the next size up…
Anyways… I like most of Mike Mahler’s exercises […]
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I constantly struggle with posture. Always have and probably always will. And there is no quick fix. I’ve searched and searched the internet… but to no avail. Everything says I need to do something every day - a few exercises every day will make my back straighter. Well thats just too much work for me! […]
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Recently a friend of mine decided we would all run with him for his party. He turned 21 - so that meant we were to run 21 kilometers. Thats 13 miles - half a marathon. I’m glad he didn’t say 21 miles. Anyway the invite was a map of the run. I thought he was […]
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I’ve been working with kettlebells for quite some time now. Well - with the real things about a month (not that long I suppose) - but I have been substituting dumbbells for quite a bit of time. I’ve been following Mike Mahler’s routines for quite a while too and while I don’t consider myself a […]
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When I first started training with kettlebells I was using dumbbells. I couldn’t afford kettlebells at the time and it seemed like a reasonable alternative. And it did work!
But when I first started using the exercises Mike Mahler recommends, I was stumped at the ‘side bends’. They seemed like a stupid little exercise that […]
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