Lily

The big quetion for so many of us in our middle era, between toddlerhood and being ancient . . . . is how to maintain our health whilst still enjoying life to the full.  However it doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom, missing out on fun activities or having just plain and boring … Read more

It matters not how often one goes off to the gym or how much one does when there, if the amount of food eaten contains a high calorific and carbohydtrate content, then the amount of calories taken in will be far in excess of the calories burned by exercise and the excess is stored in … Read more

There can be some tremendous satisfaction in attending gym classes for a few weeks.  If the classes are followed properly and consolidated by workouts at home, there cannot fail to be success when weighing or checking muscle improvement after a set number of weeks.  This of course comes under the heading of fitness.  To complete … Read more

There is no doubt that January is the month for rapid rises in gym memberships.  All those hopefuls that sign on for a special low monthly fee – attracted by the sheer number of adverts on tv and in the media no dubt.  It can be very easy to get swept up in a bubble … Read more

I go to gym clases as regularly as I can.  This does take up a lot of time for just 2 or 3 hours a week.  It’s never a case of simply turning up and sneaking into the studio.   There’s the going into the actual gym itself, with all those machines . . .   I … Read more

Now that the seriously baffling pandemic has disappeared and we all seem to be back at work and play as we used to be, we can’t help wondering if we actually imagined the coronavirus/covid19 upheaval.  It doesn’t seem possible that in a few very short months, this country was literally brought to its knees by … Read more

We use well known phrases and band them about constantly.  In the dizzingly huge and quite powerful world of ‘health’ this has never been truer.  There are health food shops dishing out all kinds of supplements and ‘life enhancers’ and of course on the most public video platforms there are literally thousands of good healthy … Read more

There are thousands of health & fitness videos on the main streaming channels on our tvs, tablets and phones.  In fact it is near impossible to miss them.  As soon as you start watching one, you watch the next and the next.  It can be pretty compulsive viewing for a morning or so.  As with … Read more

I have just spent the last couple of days at a festival in the nearest large town.  Fascinating stuff to be sure.  The point of the festival is to promote the town and the main vehicle for the fun and frovility is the river;  this major attribute serves the town mainly as a lure for … Read more

When we are young and sprightly, there are generally no thoughts or concerns about not being able to balance or climb the stairs when we get old – like over 40!  This is something that younger folk perhaps ought to be made aware of at that stage – an introduction and gentle reminders about the … Read more