Fitness & Movement
Exercise with a long-term condition
For most chronic conditions, activity is treatment rather than a risk, and specific programmes exist that people are not referred to.
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What actually works, at home, in a gym, or for nothing.
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What fitness trackers can and cannot tell you
They are accurate for some things, poor for others, and their main value is behavioural rather than physiological.
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Getting active again after a long gap
The main risks are doing too much too soon and giving up, and both have straightforward countermeasures.
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Walking, steps and what the numbers mean
The ten thousand figure came from marketing, and the actual dose-response evidence is more encouraging.
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Recovering from injury without losing everything
Complete rest is rarely the answer, and the fitness lost during a badly managed injury takes far longer to rebuild.
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Home gym equipment worth owning
A very short list covers almost everything, and the expensive items are the ones that end up storing clothes.
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Sleep, and what it costs to get it wrong
Sleep affects metabolic health, injury risk and decision quality, and the effective treatment for insomnia is not a product.
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Sitting, standing and moving at work
Prolonged sitting is a genuine risk factor, standing desks are not the answer, and the effective intervention is free.
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Running: the cheapest sport with the most injuries
Almost all running injuries come from progressing too fast, and almost none of the prevention involves buying anything.
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Physiotherapy, and when it is worth paying for
The evidence is good for specific problems, the active components are exercises you do yourself, and the passive treatments are the expensive part.
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Strength training and why it matters after forty
Muscle and bone decline predictably from midlife, and resistance training is the only intervention that reliably reverses it.
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Exercise that costs nothing
The gym membership is the least important variable, and the evidence for the free options is as good as for anything.