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Physical and Mental Health - Exercise, Fitness and Activity
Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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When your mind hates running even more than your body does, you have to strategize.
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Life can be grim sometimes.In recent years, whilst wading through a few muddy valleys of my own, I've become increasingly interested in how we get by. There are reams of podcasts, columns and talks about happiness — about what makes us happy, and keeps us happy.
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These science-based strategies can turn your good intentions into enduring habits.
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We all have reasons we can’t work out as much as we want. You can get over them — just don’t call them excuses.
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It was not super human discipline, willpower or even goal-setting that helped Amantha Imber quit sugar, sleep well and find a love of exercise. So, what was it?
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Once confined to weightlifting, workout hype tracks have become a hugely popular (and profitable) genre online. Jenny Valentish goes in search of the daddy of them all
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Exercise is important, whether you like it or not. But enjoyment can help you stay consistent, and boost the benefits you get from a workout.
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After being diagnosed with MS, paramedic Prue Young has a new attitude towards sport - and will race the Ironman world champs in Kona on Saturday, hoping to encourage others, Angela Walker writes.
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Australia watched in awe as Cliff Young shuffled his way from Sydney to Melbourne. His simple persistence is still inspiring.
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Hate exercise? Avoid it all costs? Three people share how they learned to love it.
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After two years of zero motivation to exercise, a letter-writer wants to change.
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For years, I thought the gym was one of the nine circles of hell – until I found a slice of fitness heaven.
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For fitness fanatics it can be galling to see our physical powers wane. The solution is to choose exercises to suit our age – and to find new interests, writes Joel Snape
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The microbiomes of physically active people can be quite different from those of people who rarely exercise.
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Vangelis's soundtrack to the newly re-released 1981 film Chariots of Fire says "running" in a way few pieces of music do. But does it or other upbeat tunes help motivate joggers?
There are those who completely avoid music. Those who prefer to train and hear the chirp and rustle of the fauna and flora. Or those who need to hear their own heartbeat and the rhythm of their own breath.
But for those who are "music runners" - and there are plenty of amateur runners who can't run without, even ignoring bans on MP3 players on road races - there's always a favourite song.
According to a global survey by Runner's World this year, 55% of respondents listen while running.
So what gives people that extra push, making the difference between inglorious plodding or a triumphal final sprint? What quickens the heart, stirs the soul and spurs those limbs onwards?
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Researchers find that wearing a fitness tracker doesn’t necessarily give people the motivation to change their behavior. And for some, it might have the opposite effect.
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You don't need to make drastic changes to get your life out of a rut. You just need to do something, anything, explain psychologists.
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Our lack of awareness about our self-control issues may be affecting just how we try to get ourselves to work out.
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Motivation for exercise can come in many different forms. Here’s advice from experts on how to make 2023 the year you get moving.
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To achieve a goal, a drive to do so is key. Yet not all motivation is created equal – and some factors driving a desire to succeed can even be harmful.
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New Zealander, Ruby Muir is one of the world’s most promising young trail-runners and a fearless, force of nature across broken terrain. In "Just Keep Running” Ruby shares her journey of love and loss and the inner struggles between the hippy ideals of her upbringing and how that conflicts with the competitive nature of elite sport.
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Behavioural scientist Emily Balcetis explains how changing your visual focus could improve your running times.
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The cycle of giving up on your goals before giving it a good shot is what's often known as a 'defeatist mindset' — and it's not just you, professional athletes deal with it too.
Here's how to overcome this mindset with help from a sports psychologist and personal trainer.
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Spending time with active people could be key to kick-starting a workout regime, research suggests.