Didn’t camp much as a kid? It’s not a big step to offer your own kids some light adventure! Eating outdoors, organising garden games, a weekend of camping – it’s the same mindset. There really are only two essentials to being comfortable when you move your regular activities outdoors: You need to stay warm and […]
Many different kinds of sport drinks promise miracles. Let’s check the facts! Fluids while exercising – the science Allowing muscle fibres to contract: Your muscles work thank to the “sliding†of interlaced fibres, actin and myosin. Water, alongside some minerals, is a key element for this to happen*. If there is scarcity of water in your […]
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There are claims that 15 minutes of stretching every day reduces the risk of injury to pretty much non-existent and counter-claims that stretches weaken your joints. Let’s debunk some myths about flexibility training. The anatomy of a joint A joint connects two bones. Some joints aren’t meant to move at all (e.g. the flat bones which your […]
During puberty you can hitch a ride to max out on sports coordination for life. It’s a unique opportunity you don’t want to miss, and I’ll explain the physiological science here. My pro tip is to engage in different disciplines and sports from the age of ten onwards, if not earlier. I don’t mean random […]
Jumps, sprinting, pulling or pushing – the more you fit in as a youth, the more you extend your limits for a life in sports. There is an amazing window from around age 10 to late teens when you can maximise bone strength for life with simple resistance training. I’ll cover the remarkable shot you […]
Since the first Olympics great runners have been god-like. Leonidas of Rhodes won the race in armour and shield (kitted out in bronze…) as well as flat sprints in several early Olympics. Ageas won a a 3500m race in the morning and ran a bonus 100km (!!!) in the afternoon to go and announce his […]
The Team Magnus motto is sports injure, sofas kill. Your body is perfectly equipped to restore itself after injuries. But one risk zone happens to be away from our line of vision…. Man vs cheetahHuman feet are complex, composed of 26 bones, 33 joints, and over 100 muscles, each with its own tendon/ligament. It is […]
Big massive hammer throwers. Slim and muscular jumpers. Tall for basketball, sturdy for rugby. These are just some archetypes of the bodies which fit a certain sport. Is predestination real – and even if it’s the case – does it affect junior sports enjoyment? Somatotypes is the term for main body types: endomorph, mesomorph and […]
It’s goodbye to half the fun this winter as contact is not allowed in most sports. No live spectators, no fixtures, and gym restrictions… Now is the time to find that inner determination you need in the last minutes of any sports competition, and apply it to solo fitness training instead. I’ve drawn up three […]
Defining what’s a sport can be tinged with superiority and favouritism! Wait billiard? Is that even a sport? What about darts? Or e-sports? Or car races? Or hunting? They very often don’t look very athletic. So, why are so many people addicted to it, training day and night to excel? A classic approach is how […]
