Video: Fitness Explorer - Interview on the Fat Burning Man Show

Find out a little bit more about me watching my interview with Abel James on world-leading The Fat Burning Man Show

Workout: Fit Friday

Workout:

50m Crab Walk

50 Air Squats

50m Bear Crawl

50 Lunges

50m Reverse Bear Crawl

50 Jump Pull-Ups

Note:

Please scale all Fitness Explorer workouts and playouts to your current ability.  This may mean increasing or decreasing the weights prescribed, modifying distances and times, or changing number of sets and reps to complete.  Get adequate rest and sufficient nutrition to fuel the activity and to aid in recovery.  Work hard and play hard but never sacrifice correct form.

Please visit the exercise FAQ for details on individual exercises or consult the advice of a registered exercise professional to ensure safe execution of the above movements.

If you are new to this mode of exercise, try one of the beginner's circuits

Perform a warmup prior to activity, here's an example Fitness Explorer warmup

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Health: Exercise and Diet's role in Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Health: Exercise and Diet's role in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Today I attended the WARN (Welsh Arthritis Research Network) conference in Cardiff taking part in discussions based on the research for the treatment of Rheumatoid and Osteoarthritis - with the role of food and exercise as a vital part of clinical care.

Here's a summary:

Nutrition - undervalued and seen as an area that is underfunded when it comes to it's relationship with RA mainly because the pharmaceuticals are unlikely to make much money from this - there is very little understanding of the relationship between gut inflammation, small intestine bacterial over growth (SIBO) and the high instances with RA sufferers. Something I will be looking to present on next year to encourage investigations in this area. There were a few strategies we considered that could collate some meaningful data which may be added to a smartphone app which is under construction by one of the research teams.

Exercise - significant and conclusive research in relation to the success of high intensity progressive resistance activity in improving QOL indicators, reduced pain, reduced fat mass, improved muscle mass, reduction in Type II diabetes, mitigation of metabolic syndrome, reduced rates of fractures and improved physical function for sufferers of RA. The world leading research in this area was very interesting. The biggest challenge is encouraging exercise independence, motivation and compliance. This is where PRIMALity and the right playful approach could help, discussions already taking place to take this further (I gave an impromptu demonstration which got people interested in the concept).

Another interesting angle was what I term the wide angle lens vs the macro lens view of health investigations and solutions. Succinctly put as 'molecule to man' but probably should be expanded to include 'to society' perhaps?

I will keep you posted on developments, but overall a very productive day!

Create Your Own Gym Equipment (Sand Bag it!)

Build your own:

This will be useful for some of the "Paleo Fitness" workouts - a DIY sandbag.

The below will create a 50kg/110lb bag and you'll still get change from a £10, $10 or €10 note! :-)

I'll post the finished result here.