David and I recently attended a book launch – the author of the book promoting a more natural approach to fitness, as opposed to artificial, ‘gym-type’ training.  One series of questions he put to his audience was this: “What are you really getting from running on a tr...

When I first started personal training, the majority of my clients didn’t tell their friends that they had a trainer.  Back then, in the late ‘90s, early 00’s, it was still seen as something that only “rich” people did, along with having a cleaner and owning a nice car...

I recently watched a documentary featuring a conversation between the great former racing driver, Stirling Moss, and Richard Hammond, one of the presenters of BBC One's "Top Gear".

The reason for getting these two together was because of an experience they had in comm...

The lovely big patch of grass with surrounding woods that I wrote about in "Saturday morning nature fix" has become our new playground. We head there two or three times a week to....play!

We've been getting pretty good with our tree climbing so a few days ago I took a...

Thought we'd do a cycle instead of a run today to give our feet a rest.  We headed towards South Norwood Park which is a lovely stretch of land full of pebbly trails and grassy expanses.  On our route we went across another piece of public land which is not park or rec...

I have a question: why won't people trust what is natural?

I speak to many people about diet.  I tell them to eat as natural food as possible.  They then eye me suspiciously, "what, you mean organic food?" Well, yes, I tell them, amongst other things.  I mean food tha...

Georgeous weather today.  Headed out to Clapham Common as usual and did a full lap plus a bit of road running.  The tracks on the Common are still a challenge - lots of twigs and stones.  The smooth-ish concrete at the end was very refreshing!

Also did some "...