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10/06/2024

As a personal trainer, I've referenced Dr Mosley's "one step at a time" approach to better health and wellbeing so often. His affirming, gentle, manner and always science-based information was hugely helpful and as a health and fitness professional, I try to be like him.

I love his podcast, "Just One Thing" - for myself as an individual, too, especially one who sometimes feels overwhelmed, it's exactly what I need to help me feel reassured.

My thoughts are with his wife and children, and his friends and wider family at the moment especially.

A wonderful, life-affirming man whose own life ended far, far too soon.

How a BBC presenter's gonzo science experiments turned him into a guru of better health.

18/05/2024

Personal, individually-tailored health and fitness programs with face-to-face or online services ava

04/04/2024

If you fancy trying some of my workouts, you can find quite a few freely accessible on my YouTube channel.

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Health, fitness and whole-person wellness

04/04/2024

New toys! 16kg adjustable dumbbells.

Carlisle clients will be having fun with these!

24/03/2024

Alright, just one last one. This BBC article is especially interesting, as it details some of the weird and wonderful (cruel and unusual?!) things the race participants have to do in order to be in with a chance of finishing. An exceptional, peculiar event for exceptional, peculiar people. I mean that as a compliment.

Jasmin Paris from Midlothian made history by finishing the gruelling 100-mile Barkley Marathons.

22/03/2024

18/03/2024

Official race photos.

You don't get many photos from Carlisle Half, but they're free so I'm not complaining. (Though it is a shame my flying feet are obscured by the logo. We all like a flying feet photo, after all.)

I really was THAT happy to get back to Brunton Park and the finish line - and had one last sprint in me to overtake several people on the home straight, which always feels good.

15/03/2024

I'm doing a professional development course at the moment, looking at the benefits of exercise for our neurological health, and the link between our brains (and minds) and our bodies.

13/03/2024

The ultrarunner is famed for her achievements in long-distance events. Breaking 11 world records in a single competition may be her finest feat to date

13/03/2024

Congratulations to six-day world record holder Camille Herron (560 miles) and the others who competed in the women’s six-day race in La Quinta, California. The first women’s six-day race in history was held starting on January 31, 1876, between Bertha Von Hillern (1853-1939) and Mary Marshall (1841-1911) in the Second Regiment Armory Building in Chicago, Illinois, which could seat 3,000 spectators.

The event held on a small indoor track was billed a walking match between “Petticoated Pedestrians.” The race was won by Marshall with 232 miles, to Von Hillern’s 231. The American public was pretty horrified at the news of the two worn out women. “The spectacle of two jaded, foot-sore, half-dead women urged on by a yelling crowd to ‘walk faster,’ is one that ought not to be repeated in a civilized country.” More than 60 other women’s six-day races were held in America during the next few years and the world record increased to 401 miles.