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| Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:40 |
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Monday 16th May - a busy day of work. 12 hours on my feet and talking to people. No training (and I miss monday yoga!) Tuesday - Up very early with a big bright full moon waning and a three planet conjunction still visible in the pre dawn dark. 4x 4 min pieces with 2 min recovery. Short, sharp and shiny street run under lights, 3 of the pieces being downhill to get the legs turning over nice and fast. Wednesday - 90 minutes level 2 yoga class. Lots and lots of upside down stuff today, held for a long time. Thursday - 5x 1000 m 'sprints' at 8.5 / 10. My sprinting really is laughable - there is no way what I was doing today is sprinting, in fact, my speed was often considerably slower than I ran 21 km in. But, my HR was up, and I did it all. And then I went to work for 12 hours. And got ready for a prac exam tomorrow. All in a day's work.... I did also do a preggie class - some squats and a good stretch out. Friday - all day at work Saturday - 60 minute run, just a jog. Nice and easy. I have the 10km time trial next week - I am getting a bit worried about where to try to fit it in - a very busy tail end of the week. So do I delay it a day or two? We had another night out with the Messenger Local Business Awards Gala Dinner at the Hilton. A good night out, we returned home empty handed, but it was a lovely opportunity to go out with some of our team at Vital Core Physiotherapy and see some old business contacts there. Sunday - quiet day at home with the family.
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The Cancer Council came out this week and announced that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption, and that alcohol should be considered to be as carcinogenic as smoking and asbestos are. As well as being highly associated with throat and mouth cancers, it is now found to correlate highly with breast and bowel cancers. Perhaps it should not be so surprising that a substance that can so alter mood and ability, even at very mild levels should turn out to be in fact, not good for us.
This story, an editorial from the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this year has some amazing targets - it ties in with our look at sitting and health, and is about developing healthcare systems that support exercise - recognise it as being as vital a measure of our health as is blood sugar levels or blood pressure. It recommends 150 minutes of physical activity per week for adults as a minimum. 30 mins on 5 days. For children, it is 420 mins / week - 60 minutes every day. How close are you?
This is another article on inactivity / obesity and health from Sports Medicine Australia, highlighting the link between an inactive childhood and a lifetime of battling depression. It is food for thought (!) these days where there seems to be much paranoia about safety of children away from their parents watchful eyes, and therefore a tendency to want to keep them closely under watch instead of encouraging more activity and indeed risk taking behaviours. The ability to judge situations for risk and to be able to take appropriate risks builds self esteem and resilience. Not much to do with bowel cancer awareness, but close to my heart as well.
Another article on sitting
This one is in really simple terms - if you walk 30 mins (as recommended) and sleep 8 hours, most of us still have 15.5 hours per day not moving. You cannot sit all day behind a screen, then drive your car and sit and watch tv with out it being bad for you. A good read.