Posts filed under “Trends”

2010 Health and Fitness Trends

I’ve crawled all over the web to get a sense of how people and exercise are likely to connect as we enter a new year . What follows is a number of ‘trending’ themes and then my interpretation of why people will be attracted. Clicking on a red word will take you ...

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Floating gym planned for New York

What a lovely concept this is. Architect Mitchell Joachim and Douglas Joachim Personal Trainer/Lecturer at the National Academy of Sports Medicine have designed the perfect antidote to the gym view that never changes.Mitchell says of the project: 'The motion starved environments we live in are the antithesis of our being. Perhaps the ...

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Exercise machines to shape our lives – Intelligent Life magazine

Below is an excerpt from an article I wrote for Intelligent Life magazine (an Economist group publication): ------------------- The irony, in this brave new world of the Human Genome project and space tourism, is that more of us will die from `lifestyle` diseases than any other cause of death.It is by far ...

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