by admin | Jul 16, 2015 | Health and Fitness
Supercharge your brain (with exercise) You do not have to look far to discover research and rationale on why we should exercise daily. Articles will refer to the need to keep the body disease free, to manage stress, to improve sleep quality, to have a healthy heart –...
by admin | Jul 16, 2015 | Health and Fitness, Preparation for Hiking
Returning from Everest Base Camp with a heavy heart, my trip cancelled we were caught up in the Kathmandu Earthquake Last month I wrote to you about goal setting – Big Hairy Audacious Goals, also known as BHAGs – (The term ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal’...
by Jo Cordell-Cooper | Aug 8, 2014 | Health and Fitness, Preparation for Hiking
Once I signed up for Everest Base Camp I set myself the task of preparing for it – not just physical preparation but metal preparation. I’ve done lots of long hikes, from the Overland Track, South Coast Track, Routeburn, Milford Track and Mount...
by Jo Cordell-Cooper | Jul 29, 2014 | Health and Fitness, postpartum exercise, Pregnancy Exercise
Pelvic floor exercise is an important part of your exercise regime that is often neglected until the need to do it is ……. obvious. So if you are having symptoms like wind escaping unexpectedly, weeing when your sneeze or cough or blow up a balloon, weeing...
by Jo Cordell-Cooper | Jul 10, 2014 | Health and Fitness, Personal Trainer, Preparation for Hiking
Before I had kids I used to hike a lot and I recall saying to my trusty hiking pal Wils that one day I’d like to go to Everest Base Camp. I had no ambition to climb Everest, but Everest Base Camp appealed to because it was remote and offered a cultural...