functional exercise

The Problem with Cardio

I remember I used to spend a lot of time doing “cardio”.  At one stage about 5 years ago I was running 60kms per week.  Granted, at the time I was training for a half marathon (which I finished in … Read More

Hotel Room Workouts

I’ve been travelling a lot lately for work which sounds way more glamorous than it actually is.  Not only does it compromise my ability to eat good quality healthy organic foods but different time zones means that my sleeping patterns … Read More

nourishing traditions

Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon

Sally Fallon is one of my all time favourite authors.  As the founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation she is at the forefront of the functional food/medicine revolution. Nourishing Traditions is more like an encyclopaedia of nutritional truths … Read More

Today’s Workout – Park Playground

I love working out in interesting places.  I really can’t understand why, weather permitting, people head into the gym to labour away on a machine when you can do the same thing (and yield a much stronger result) outside.  I … Read More

For a healthy lifestyle – keep it simple!

There’s so much information these days about absolutely everything to do with health and wellbeing. Not to mention fitness and weight loss, you only need to google these words to find yourself lost in hundreds of thousands of references to … Read More