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Well, it’s been nearly a year now since I first damaged my leg – and six months since I last ran and frankly, I’m going nuts! It’s not so much the running I miss, but exercising outside – I’ve tried walking which is nice, but, still flares up my leg…
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The other day I was lucky enough to pootle off for a bit of a staycation in a beachside town called Cronulla about an hour of Sydney. I was there to review a hotel, but the PR team had put on a few activities for us while we were there…
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I was very excited when I first saw about Aquabase a few weeks ago. The idea sounds fun. It’s a large floating exercise mat upon which you do various exercises like yoga or toning moves. The theory is that the instability of the water causes you to wobble about therefore…
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Breaking News: Well to me anyway. Apparently the idea that some swimming pools put a blue dye in the water to catch people who pee in the pool is a myth. Not true. An out and out fib. That’s right, all the times I’ve dragged my sorry butt out of…
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Yesterday I tested the launch of aquAllure aqua spinning classes which uses underwater exercise bikes to give your legs a workout. Squeeee….. Yes, in the crazy world that is fitness, it’s currently not enough to cycle on dry land – you have to get into water and do underwater spinning as…
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There’s a headline I didn’t think I’d ever type, but Berlei have brought out Aqua Trek a crop top/sports bra specifically designed for women taking part in triathlons. The Aqua Trek range contains the fabulously named ‘ultrasonic ventilation zones’ – it’s claimed that air flows around the design in…
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Despite the fact that I am not a natural athlete, I actually swim remarkably fast. Not well, there’s quite a lot of spluttering, but I’m surprisingly quick – and today I decided to try and test out a trick that could make me swim even faster. It came via a…
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Many of you might be shocked right now – ‘what do you mean you can’t swim in contact lenses?’ you’re saying. ‘And why? After all, most lens wearers have no idea they shouldn’t swim in their little circular vision improvers. But there’s two main reasons why it’s a really bad…
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