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The first time I went for a professional massage I was hesitant. I had been to the spa before and seen the massage therapists, none of them looked capable of giving my poor twisted muscles the workout I thought they needed. What I didn’t know was that professional masseurs use additional equipment, giving them power assisted muscles easily able to give mine the pummeling they needed without getting tired. (more…)
All birds and mammals sleep, along with many fish, amphibians and reptiles. Scientists study sleep intensively, but they are still not sure exactly what is, and most especially what it is for. There are many contradictions. Babies of almost all species sleep far more than adults, yet in some marine mammals such as killer whales, new born babies don’t sleep at all for the first month of life. Some birds (as well as Dolphins) can sleep with one half of their brains, while the other remains awake. For the rest of us, sleep is a period of unconsciousness which usually occupies around one third of our day. Science continues to argue over it’s purpose, but what is agreed is that sleep is absolutely essential to health. (more…)
Some of our favorite quotes about good health and fitness. Some funny, some inspirational.
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”
- Tommy Lasorda
“The more I talk to athletes, the more convinced I become that the method of training is relatively (more…)
Air pollution is just another one of those problems we’ve learned to live with, but it’s not so bad. After all, these days most people don’t spend much time outside. Right? So what’s the problem?
It’s true that the average person spends 90% of their life indoors, but it isn’t true that indoor air is fine and dandy. Indoor air is recycled air and no matter how clean your home is, it is filled with assorted forms of contamination, from dust particles to tiny (more…)
If you’ve only just started setting up a home gym, you’ve probably looked at all the standard equipment, treadmill, exercise bike, rowing machine, but you may not have looked at another piece of equipment which is less well known, but becoming increasingly popular; elliptical trainers
The first elliptical exercise machines provided a good workout, but only for the lower body. Most have some sort of handrail for balance, but many now have (more…)