I am 35 years old but part of my brain thinks my physical abilities are the same as when I was 25. I know this because my usual intoxicated break dance routine I have been doing since my teens (mostly at weddings) has been getting harder and harder to recover from. My...
Exercise prescription/selection is tough. Which exercise do I choose? How often do I do it? Etc, etc. This is about simplifying exercise prescription. I mentioned a few emails back about a great book called the one thing and it has relevance again here when it...
Yes, it’s not something I enjoy and I never have. I was always told by friends, family, teachers, even the television (ironically) that reading is really important and if you don’t do it, you will “struggle” in life. I have also been told on...
The problem with physios and doctors is that we are cursed. Yes, a dreadful curse. A so very dreadful curse … We believe that people know what we know. As Chip Heath (professor of organizational behaviour at Stanford University) says, we suffer from the...
Something that has interested me since I was very young. I grew up in the west of Ireland with parents who believed in western and eastern medicine. I attended tai chi and A&E. I used arnica and rescue remedy and I took antibiotics and anti-inflammatory (I...
