One Year in Skipton
This is the editorial from our first Newsletter, you can find a link to the whole thing on the left column of our website (I think it makes a good blog): Skipton has now been our home for just over a...
View ArticleBack-up on location
Snow on the mountains this morning: my fingers numb as the cold penetrates the gloves, heavy breathing fogging my glasses as I work hard to climb the hills, big puffy pants to stop my legs freezing,...
View ArticleHow much soft tissue therapy is best?
Recent events have demonstrated to me how important it is to maintain an appropriate amount of contact time with each client. Clients prior commitments have dictated that they have missed a few massage...
View ArticleWhat makes efficient running?
Brrr… It seems to be winter, we had snow on Monday and it bucketed down all day yesterday, it won’t be long before Clare and I are up to our ankles in mud as we run up to Skipton golf course each...
View ArticleWhat can we learn from mountain goats?
So here I am in Majorca, a perfect environment to do some training and test one or two theories; one being the up and down hill running ideas from last time and the other some thoughts about the impact...
View ArticleCycle training in Mallorca
Mallorca is a wonderful venue for cycling and hand cycling, particularly at this time of year and on into the spring. At this time, before the holiday season has started and the roads are clogged with...
View ArticleA good training camp?
It’s coming to the end of our first Fit for Purpose training camp, in Puerto Pollensa, Mallorca. Most people have gone home and I’m pondering how it went. There were 9 of us, joining in for different...
View ArticleBest warm ups for cycling and running
All this Olympic mania is very exciting and the GB team are performing amazingly well. More locally, I was chatting with a friend yesterday and he mentioned seeing a Tweet saying that Yorkshire would...
View ArticleApril Fool?
Ironically, this April fools day showed me the reality. I have been fooling myself into ignoring the sad state of physical fitness I have drifted into.... ..... over recent weeks/months, thinking that...
View ArticleThe best nutrition?
Nutrition is an interesting one; since before we started Fit for Purpose we have taken an interest in nutrition; Christine having been vegetarian for most of her life and then having vegetarian and...
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