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Health & Fitness
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Nail your fitness
Fallen off your fitness regime? Yeah, me too (grrrr) . Never mind, let's get back on the horse with these 6 super-smart ways to train from PT and triathlete Steve Carvey.
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Deep tissue issue? Say hi to David Lucas
Firstly, what a cute puppy! And no, he’s not totally extraneous to the feature (*tut*). But let’s start at the beginning. My body has been falling apart for the best part of 20 years, and now that I sit down at a desk/at a restaurant/in a theatre/in the car for 12 hours a day I’m […]
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HEAD-TO-TOE HEALTH CHECK
With the NHS buckling under pressure, GP surgeries rammed and seemingly a different doctor working every time you manage to rugby tackle a receptionist for an appointment, it’s no wonder that private doctor surgeries are stepping into the gap. The idea being that, for a monthly or annual fee, you can call up and get […]
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Move over Bieber! Muddy tries cupping
I’m always on the look out for the stuff that’s slightly new, different or quirky in the area, and blow me down if I haven’t found it! The brilliant Thame Therapy Clinic, which I’ve used on personal level for everything for osteos and acupuncture (my never ending bad back), to some cranial work on my […]
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THE BAGNALL CENTRE
It’s interesting how ‘wellness’ has become an accepted concept over the last year, isn’t it? It feels like our health is finally viewed as more than a pill popped or ten minutes offloading at the harrassed doctor’s surgery, with complementary therapies increasingly part of our lives, whether it’s acupuncture to help fertility or reflexology to […]
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On my soapbox
I'm on my soapbox (hang on while I do a couple of sets of tricep dips will you?). I'm sick of competitive clean eating, £600 designer running pants and the unhealthy industry that's propping up our modern concept of 'wellness'. Stretch, limber, RANT!
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Muddy tries: Clinic on the Green
If I were to start a competition to find the cutest, quirkiest alternative therapy centre in rural England, I think the Clinic on the Green would have a good stab at winning it. Sitting on the green (well, what did you expect?) in Bletchington, a sleepy, pretty village 2 miles north of Kidlington, 5 miles […]
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Check out the filthily good Fitlife
This funky new boutique gym in Haddenham Bucks is the kind of start-up I just love to write about. Haddenham, if you don’t already know, is a village famed for its duck pond and 12th century church, numerous starring roles in Midsomer Murders, a very good coffee shop in Little Italy, a whopping enormous railway […]
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Muddy tries: Boditrax at David Lloyd
Sometimes you just need to front up to the stats. I’m talking about body composition, muscle mass, fat (inside and out), metabolic burn, dehydration levels, all the stuff that I’ve been going ‘la-la-la’ very loudly with my fingers in my ears while Mr Muddy pours me another drink and I lose my arm in the […]
