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75/75 Part 1 Cardio
A cardio routine that is perfect for 75% of us for 75% of the time.
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The Spice of Life
When it comes to training for anything, adding some variety ie cross training has many benefits.
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Reasonable reason
Why are you and why are you not training? Are your reasons real or perceived?
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Success
A different perspective on how we achieve success. See, Understand, Create, Clear, Embrace, Stay, Show.
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Every Minute On the Minute
A simple and effective routine where you are answerable to a timer but have the ability to play with the movements, sets…
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Should runners lift?
Many endurance athletes mistakingly associate strength training with gaining muscle and therefore weight. But strength training…
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Why lift?
I am regularly asked this question. “I’m a runner so I don’t need to lift weights” …“I don’t lift weights because I don…
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Why exercise?
There is plenty of research written about the benefits of exercise, in fact I briefly covered this topic before. What's …
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Back to basics
The simple act of moving your body (exactly what we are designed to do) has a host of physical and mental benefits. Whether…
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Core strength
Typically when we think of core exercises we think of moves like crunches, where we lay on the floor on our back and bend…
Summer's here
As I write this article I am looking out of the window across an undisturbed vista that includes the Malvern Hills and Abberley…
Saying is believing
At the time of writing this and as the third lockdown eases many of us are gradually returning to exercise or reintroducing…
Pulling your weight
It is estimated that there are over 650 named skeletal muscles in your body, far too many to think about on an individual…
Counting calories
Distinguishing between calories (small c) and Calories (Capital C) can be a little tricky and somewhat confusing. And the…
Positive moods
I think the majority of you are aware of the positive association between physical activity / exercise and mental well being…
Weight another minute
Following up from last month’s article I would just like to highlight a few points that I think are interesting and/or important…
Weight a minute
Hi Folks and may I take this opportunity to welcome you into 2021 after what I hope was a lovely Christmas and New Year …
Do what you can
At the time of writing we are just completing the first week of England’s second nation-wide lockdown and hoping that there…
Don't believe the hype
As we start to approach the Christmas period I wanted to talk to you about a topic close to my heart, so close in fact that…
New Month's Resolution 2
Way back in February 2019 I wrote an article titled New Month’s Resolution. This was obviously my slant on the annual post…
Excuse me?
Hi Folks, I thought that in this month’s edition we could take a light-hearted look at some of the more amusing and/or …
Returning to exercise
At the time of writing this and as the lockdown restrictions continue to be eased I thought it would be appropriate to broach…
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Vits and Mins 2
In the last blog which was written just before Lockdown, we looked at an overview of vitamins and minerals. The current …
Vits and Mins
For this month's article we are going to take a quick look at vitamins and minerals with a view to delve a little deeper…
Sets and reps
If you remember back to November I wrote an article exploring the terminology used within the running community. This terminology…
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Sad and unmotivated
Hi folks, I was due to complete last month’s two part article on Heart Rate Zones this month. On reflection this can be …
In the zone
One of the most effective ways of working out how hard you are working is by measuring your heart rate. Most cardio vascular…
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Say what?
On Sunday 6th October 2019 many members of Andali Fitness family successfully completing the wonderful Cardiff Half Marathon…
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You are what you eat
Hippocrates, the ancient greek physician once famously said "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food".
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Down the Hatch
This topic invokes more opinions and more soap box preachering than just about any other in the fitness world. Nutrition…
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Loosen Up
Stretching, or more accurately, flexibility training is often overlooked when designing an exercise programme but should…
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Strength over Size
Here lies much gym mythology, misinformation and ultimately misunderstanding. When I talk to endurance athletes that I work…
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Feel the Burn
In the last blog ‘Update Your CV’ we explored ways of improving our cardiovascular fitness through aerobic exercise. In …
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Updating your CV
In the last blog titled “what do you want” we talked about the need to identify what you want to achieve before you can …
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What do you want?
What at first might appear a bit rude is actually a pertinent question. It applies to just about every aspect of life and…
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Measuring Success
Success is a funny thing. To one person it could simply mean being good at what you do, to someone else it might be how …
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New Month's Resolution
Each New Year most of us make some sort of promise to ourselves that we will change what we do for the better. But why wait…