
GOLF!!
The place of golf in helping maintain physical activity and good health is a somewhat underestimated and unsung field. A couple of recent publications have helped to fill this neglected space. I liked the po-faced definition in a paper on “the relationships...
Measuring Your Own Fitness
Measuring your own fitness There are a number of benefits from being able to measure your own fitness: It can give you an idea of how fit – or unfit – you are in comparison with others of your own sex and age. You should be concerned if you find that you are average...
Energy expenditure, health and fitness
Another recap Total exercise dose can be calculated as MET minutes1 or MET hours. And one MET, or metabolic equivalent, is the rate at which energy is used by the body at rest. It is expressed in relation to body weight and is taken as 3.5ml of oxygen per minute per...ENCOURAGING EXERCISE part 3
Daily life is full of opportunities for becoming more physically active - here are a few of them to consider.
ENCOURAGING EXERCISE Part 2
It is difficult to get people to increase their physical activity. Doctors should be prescribing exercise but have little incentive to do so.