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When you are being active, it is almost inevitable that at some point, somehow, you are going to be in pain. You might hurt yourself big time (remember Simon and his bike crash?) or you might just have a niggling ache from pushing yourself too hard. It is going to happen, and that’s part of the fun, surely!
When things hurt, it’s easy to head to the medicine cabinet and take some painkillers. And often, that’s a top idea. What I always remind people about though, is that even if you don’t feel the pain any more due to the amazing power of paracetomol, the injury, or sore bit is still there, and there is one excellent thing you can do to limit the damage, help recovery time, and get you moving again.
And that thing is drink water. And I don’t mean the odd sip every few hours – drink at least two litres over the course of the day. And this goes for virtually any kind of injury or soreness.
Water provides a nice bit of padding for any injuries, helping prevent more damage. Once that danger has gone, water helps to flush away all the lingering stuff that you don’t want, and brings all the goodies that you do want. Getting the bad stuff away, and the good stuff in = repair and recovery!
So even though you might feel that a beer or a coffee is the perfect antidote to sitting on the sidelines, water is, and will always be, your friend.
This is the time of year when most people are facing a bit of a conundrum (love that word!). A likely New Year resolution is to get fit, start exercising more or loose weight, but at the same time, the weather doesn’t exactly tempt you to jumping out of the car and cycling to work instead. Nor does it make you feel like a stroll round the block instead of watching Eastenders. Continue reading
Oooooh, indeedy. There can’t be many people who don’t like chocolate, and I am so pleased to tell you that chocolate is not as bad for you as you might think!
But before you go out and chomp yourself a huge bar of the stuff, you need to bear in mind the following: When I say ‘chocolate’, I mean proper chocolate. A lump of brown coloured, chocolate flavoured vegetable fat with sweeteners does NOT count as chocolate. Continue reading
I am so pleased to be able to say that my super-useful download is here! If you are in a hurry, click on the attachment, or if you have five mins, keep on reading – you might just read something to make you smile! Either way, have fun finding out exactly why ‘Autumn is a bad time to lose weight and what to do about it anyway’! Continue reading
Now, ask this question of almost anyone, and you will get a different answer! I would love to be able to say that taking vitamins was just not necessary, but unfortunately, we don’t live in a naturally perfect world, where we go out every dawn, collecting from the wild the food that we will eat that day. Even if we did live such lives, chances are that we wouldn’t be getting exactly the foods that provide the perfect range of vitamins and minerals we need for that day. Continue reading
