Reading Time: 6 minutesEvery year on my birthday I like to do something that challenges me both physically and mentally. Maybe it’s in defiance to my ever looming demise, my Peter Pan syndrome, or my awkwardness in a party scenario, but I have grown to relish my yearly crucible. This tradition started on my 40th birthday when IContinue reading “Voluntary Hardship – The Vaccine for Life”
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Budget ‘Barefoot’ Shoe Reviews
Reading Time: 11 minutesLike many other people, I was often barefoot as a kid. I have many memories of running through the forest, stopping to occasionally pull a holly leaf out of my skin; to feel the soft, cool mud squelch up between my toes; the roughness of tree bark as I clung ape-like in my favourite willow.Continue reading “Budget ‘Barefoot’ Shoe Reviews”
Vitamin V – And Why Foraging is the Ultimate Human Exercise
Reading Time: 10 minutesHow many plants do you eat? Do you get your ‘5 a day’ quota or are you like my Mum and only eat peas (we have to phone ahead when we go out for dinner)? But how many actual varieties of plants do you actually consume? The Earth has an estimated 400,000 plant species thatContinue reading “Vitamin V – And Why Foraging is the Ultimate Human Exercise”
Shakshuka – The Budget Friendly Primal Taste Sensation
Reading Time: 4 minutesTo eat a Primal/Paleo aligned diet is often viewed as expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. The following recipe is a great way to eat clean and healthily whilst keeping a firm hold on the purse strings. I spent the first three quarters of my life unable to eat eggs. I could eat theContinue reading “Shakshuka – The Budget Friendly Primal Taste Sensation”
DIY GYM EQUIPMENT – The Mighty Sandbag
Reading Time: 7 minutesWelcome to the DIY corner everyone. This is the first of many blog posts covering some cheap but hugely effective training gear that you can make and use at home. Ever since lockdown started last year, gym equipment has become as scarce as rocking horse manure and the prices have rocketed. If you didn’t getContinue reading “DIY GYM EQUIPMENT – The Mighty Sandbag”
How I FINALLY learnt to meditate – and how you can too.
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs much as I’d like it to be, my mind is anything but serene. I love the idea of wandering through wildflower meadows, dressed in flowing linen, with a winsome smile and a mind purely focused on the gentle movement of the clouds. But what I have is the equivalent of watching a bag ofContinue reading “How I FINALLY learnt to meditate – and how you can too.”
Box Breathing
Reading Time: 4 minutesStress Management is one of our 5 Circles of Health, our approach to forging happy, healthy, hard to kill humans. We know how important a healthy mind is in creating a healthy body, and vice versa. Stress management has a multitude of faces. We can manage our physical stress by applying the correct stimuli andContinue reading “Box Breathing”
How to Choose a Great Online Coach
Reading Time: 5 minutesFollowing on from yesterday’s post about online coaching, I am going to take a deep dive into what makes a good online coach to help you to make a more informed choice in the veritable sea of sweaty, bulging options. Where to look? If you search for ‘online coach’ on Google you get well overContinue reading “How to Choose a Great Online Coach”
Online Coaching – What is it, do you need it, and what makes a good coach?
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs I write this at the end of February 2021, Britain and Ireland are still firmly locked down. We can only meet 1 other person for exercising outside, gyms and leisure facilities are closed, and both new and second-hand exercise equipment is increasingly difficult to come by. This is very much the age of theContinue reading “Online Coaching – What is it, do you need it, and what makes a good coach?”