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- Exercise & Motivation, Part 4: Maintenance & Relapse
Motivating ourselves to exercise can be difficult, and different techniques will work better for different people. This article is the final in a series on exercise and motivation, and explores the best way to motivate yourself if you start suddenly experiencing difficulties after regular exercise has become a habit in your life
Date of Article: 03Oct2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Stress & Self Esteem, 4: Reaching out for Help
This article continues the series of articles on Stress & Self-Esteem, looking at the final part of the model introduced in the first article: Reaching out for help. Reaching out is something many of us find difficult. This article explores why it's important to get help, and where we can look for it when we decide to reach out.
Date of Article: 28Sep2005
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- Exercise & Motivation, Part 3: Keeping it Going
Motivating ourselves to exercise can be difficult, and different techniques will work better for different people. This article is the third in a series on exercise and motivation, and explores the best way to motivate yourself if regular activity is already a part of your life
Date of Article: 26Sep2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Why is Online Learning so Popular (and is it for me)?
Online education (or 'webucation') has become incredibly popular over the past few years, and many universities are now offering part or all of their courses online. This article explores the reasons for the sudden surge in popularity and helps readers evaluate whether online education is a good option for them.
Date of Article: 11Sep2005
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- Exercise & Motivation, Part 2: Overcoming Inertia & Getting Started
Motivating ourselves to exercise can be difficult, and different techniques will work better for different people. This article is the second in a series on exercise and motivation, and explores the best way to motivate those who want to get started with regular activity in their lives
Date of Article: 04Sep2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Stress & Supplementation: How is a Supplement Supposed to Help with Stress?
It’s not news that stress products are a big-money industry, and stress supplements are at the forefront - but how useful (and how safe) are the products we take to help us with stress. This article series investigates the rationale behind stress supplements and explains how they are supposed to work.
Date of Article: 28Aug2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Stress & Self Esteem, 3: Nurturing Yourself
This article continues the series of articles on Stress & Self-Esteem, looking at the the second part of the model introduced in the first article: Nurturing Ourselves. Nurturing ourselves is a concept made popular in new age psychology - but what does it really entail, and how do we go about doing it so that we see practical results in our lives?
Date of Article: 21Aug2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Exercise & Self Image: How to Feel Better in More Ways than One
There's evidence to show that increasing activity levels can help improve self-esteem, and , at the same time that increasing self-esteem can help people commit to and persevere with an exercise programme. This article investigates the reasons for the reciprocal relationship, and offers ideas for how ot get it working for you.
Date of Article: 15Aug2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Natural Pain Management: Exercise & Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a nightmare that afflicts all too many people, but there are options available to help manage it. While different options work for different people, exercise has been shown to have immense benefit for many sufferers. This article explores possible reasons for the relationship between exercise and chronic pain relief, and talks about the factors that need to be considered before trying out 'exercise therapy'.
Date of Article: 08Aug2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- ‘But I don’t want Muscles!’ - Part 1: What Muscle is, and how to Build (or Avoid) it
Many women are concerned at the prospect of building large muscles if they incorporate any resistance or weights training into their exercise routine. This two-part article series explores some of the myths around building muscle, and explains why a base level of muscle is critical for health, weight loss, and the 'toned' look most clients seek for themselves.
Date of Article: 01Aug2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Warming Up Properly
Traditional warmups have simply involved 5-10 minutes of aerobic exercise before beginning to train at full intensity - whatever the training might comprise. This article explores why such an approach only addresses half of what a warm-up needs to do, and makes suggestions as to how to modify a warm-up routine to ensure the athlete is in optimally prepared for the training session that follows.
Date of Article: 18Jul2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Training or Television? Working out when you're not Well
Sometimes, exercise can help us feel better if we've woken up feeling 'under the weather'. Other times, however, working out when we're sick can leave us feeling far worse than we did before we started. This article explains how readers can decide on whether exercise or rest is the better option, and gives suggestions for those who find it difficult to allow themselves time off from their training for recovery.
Date of Article: 11Jul2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Stretching, Part 1: Why & When
Traditionally, exercise and training routines of all kinds have begun with 5-10 minutes of aerobic warmup, followed by an extended period of static stretching. This two-part article series explores why such an approach can be counterproductive, and offers more effective and safer alternatives.
Date of Article: 06Jul2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Stress & Performance: How much is just right?
Studies seeking to establish the link between stress and performance have found positive relationships, negative relationships and no relationships at all, depending on the study concerned. This article looks at the link between stress and optimum performance, and makes suggestions as to how to ensure you keep your stress at levels that support your optimum performance.
Date of Article: 26Jun2005
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- Stress & Self Esteem: Raising One by Lowering the Other
Stress & Self-esteem are generally thought to be inversely related, and there is a reasonable amount of evidence to support this assumption. This article - the first in a four part series - examines the reasons for the relationship, and then, in subsequent articles, investigates specific ways of improving self-esteem in order to better manage stress.
Date of Article: 12Jun2005
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- Stress & Spirituality, Part 1
A healthy spirituality can be one of the most effective tools at our disposal for managing stress. However, for reasons as individual as they themselves are, many people feel leery of anything to do with the spiritual. This article draws the all-important distinction between spirituality and religion, and explores how spirituality can reduce stress levels.
Date of Article: 05Jun2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Fit for What?
Often, people talk about wanting to getting fit without relating the concept to anything else. While there are some absolutes around fitness, this article suggests that fitness should fit within the framework of the rest of an individual's life, and makes suggestions as to how readers can start thinking about what they'd like to be fit for.
Date of Article: 29May2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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- Stress & Exercise: How do I make it Work for Me?
The relationship between stress and exercise is often assumed to be simple, but some forms of exercise can actually elevate stress levels. This article explores the way exercise and stress affect each other, and makes suggestions for how to best use exercise to manage unwanted stress.
Date of Article: 20May2005
Category: Health & Fitness
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