Tag: exercise
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Running Doesn’t Get Any Easier, But Let Me Tell You What It Does Do…
This week, I’ve decided to guilt you off the sofa with another smug-assed update about my new running career. Photo from Unsplash. Catherine McMahon Cue drumroll: Last week, I reached my target of 4kms for the Mothers Day Run For Breast Cancer. In other words, my weekly jog/hobbles around the lagoon in our new suburb…
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“Running Really Does Get Easier,” Said No Novice Runner Ever
There’s no doubt in my mind that what this year’s fun run is really about is another narcissistic attempt to deny the physical evidence that my body is as old AF and, well, a bit buggered. The papers – or “the news” (as my millennial daughter corrected me yesterday morning because she has never read…
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The Hidden Link Between Muscle Tone And Weight Gain In Middle Age
I know I drone on about the unfairness of weight gain in middle age a lot. I don’t want to sound like some narcissistic bitch bemoaning the first-world problem of the loss of my youth, beauty, and self-esteem, (which I am…obviously), but we women of a certain age have a lot to come to terms…
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‘Making Self-Love Habitual’
‘Self-lovers don’t diet. They eat what they want, when they want, but do so mindfully.’ (Jacinta Tynan, Sydney Morning Herald) Admittedly, I’m still working on the ‘mindful’ part of this comment, but I’ve been doing a lot of research recently about loving yourself and this article – How To Make Self-Love An Instinctual Habit – confirmed to…
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Hiking, And How To Unhinge An Already Rocky Marriage
It may surprise you to know that the old man and I are not adventurers. We will never jump out of a plane, never consider it personally fulfilling to scale the Himalayas or even camp locally, so it was with some trepidation that we set off on an adventure last weekend. My arty shots –…
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Aqua Aerobics: Welcome To The Middle-Aged Club Of Fitness
Firstly, I believe that this is an appropriate opportunity for me to issue a formal apology to those women that do aqua-aerobics, that I may have slighted in the past with a secret snigger of immaturity as I swaggered past them, head held high, towards the fast lane of the pool. Because yesterday, I joined…
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Never Judge A Book By Its Cover
Picture the scene. I’m at the local pool, in the fast lane even though I know that I have no right to be there after two weeks of culinary debauchery and enough alcohol in my body to pickle every organ, but I don’t feel too guilty because there’s some cheeky geriatric in there, too, and…
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Fear of Ageing and How I Wish I’d Started Walking Years Ago
I apologise sincerely for neglecting you this past week, although I did warn you that I was about the enter a period of life-sucking demands from the day job, and it’s only today that I’ve managed to raise my head above water again. So I’m finally squeezing out a post so you don’t forget about…
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The Reality Of Those Damned Middle-Aged Fitness Resolutions
We’ve reached the end of the first week of January, so I wondered how everyone’s doing with their fitness resolutions? Or are you, like me, surreptitiously gorging on carbs and quaffing wine when no-one’s looking? I’ve been walking/jogging for the past ten days. I say ‘jogging’, but my pace is actually somewhere between a fast…
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Nailing The Middle-Aged Beach Routine
Yes, we have become THAT middle-aged couple who go to the beach, fully prepared, military-style, for Hurricane Patricia or a tsunami at the very least. Obviously this image bears absolutely no resemblance to us on the beach. Because when you’re middle-aged, anxiety makes damned sure that you’re super-prepared for any eventuality. It’s not like when…
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How To Change The LifeStyle Of Middle Aged Man
Neanderthal by David Smittcamp at http://www.flickr.com The problem with having to change your lifestyle is having to change to your lifestyle. The old man is suffering from his eighth mid-life crisis in as many years at the moment because he has finally realised that he is in fact mortal like the rest of us and…
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Meet The New Middle-Aged Sports Girl
So the diet’s going well. Not really. Some of you might remember that I’ve been trying to shed a few of the mince pie kilos for a few weeks now. Holiday Jogging by Mihhailov at http://www.flickr.com Not in a rash, drinking-nothing-but-shakes kind of way, because I’m not a complete fruit cake. Did someone just say…
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