myTakes: Health & Fitness

Introduction: For my last take in our "Health & Fitness" week of the #BATTLEROYALE , I decided to do an awareness piece. I was thinking about how often in the media you see a piece encouraging women to regularly check...

Introduction: In this take for the #BATTLEROYALE , I looked at ways to jazz up the title but there is no way around it. The take is just about my diet and health drive of last year. I will give a few tips to what worked...

Now, I will warn you, this will be a long take, because you can't really gloss over something like mental disabilities, but I will do my best to make it short yet detailed. This is my first take, so bear with me and any...

Introduction: The topic for our team this week in the #BATTLEROYALE take contest is "Health & Fitness". I started to form an idea for a take about Work/Life Balance. Firstly there has to be a concession to those who have...

Walk more Walking is one of the easiest and most effective ways of increasing your activity. Find a walking pal or join a walking group. Take up running The popular Couch to 5K running plan is designed to get...

Introduction: When preparing for the #BATTLEROYALE contest, you knew you had to write takes on 4 topics, 1 per week for four weeks but you didn't get the topic until the Monday of each week. First I had a look at the...

Introduction: With the Paralympics due to take place in Rio next month, I thought the most apt way to start a take on the strength of the human spirit would be with image of James O'Shea who competed in the London 2012...

Doctors seem to think a scale of one to ten smiley faces gives them a good idea of your pain. Rest assured no matter what number you tell them they will subtract five . I firmly believe Doctors only have two real...

Introduction: For this take in the #BATTLEROYALE contest, I had been thinking about the "Rate Me" culture and how healthy it was. My initial idea was further inspired by @Dog19 and her take in the contest last week,...

Introduction:- I have always being very interested in Mental Health posts on this site and how it was perceived in society. I was having a think about takes for the #BATTLEROYALE contest and what topics might come up. I...

You can’t sleep. Your appetite is really poor. Your stomach is either nauseous, gets upset, or you’re constipated on end. You feel tension and have a mind that can’t seem to be at ease. And it’s from something going on in...

As Ahmed opens the door of his house; he thinks of the hard day he had; the mountain of paperwork that he has done, the deadlines that he has to fulfill the next day. He is still not able to rid himself of the nasty smell...

A few nights ago, at 7:44, I was at my gym training a few mostly middle aged women, new to working out. Right in the middle of the class, in walks a maybe 30 year old woman pushing s stroller. This is incongruous in the...

In today's world, physical appearance has become paramount. People are judged aesthetically every day in every walk of life whether it is proper to do or not. Most of our first impressions of people we meet are drawn from...

What makes someone knowledgable about nutrition and fitness is their education in the topic, experience coaching / lifting, and how much they do to better themselves ability wise and knowledge wise. Your physical...

First I want to say that by strong, I mean people who can eventually fight and not intimidate or ambush people in the streets at night, or with 4 other colleges. Also that I don't have the pretense of calling myself...

In the west, we have a real problem with obesity and it's not going away anytime soon. Where I live, in the United Kingdom, '[o]ne in four British adults is obese, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation,...

My take on home workout Introduction Lifting is a strenuous task, going to the gym is even more grueling. Whether it is a tiresome schedule, money issues, environment/availability of the gym or just lacking enthusiasm,...

Today we live in a violent world. In this day and age people should learn how to defend themselves. A lot of people use peeper spay or tasers now to defend themselves and these are good to use, but you might not have them...

Many of us had this problem at some point (and some of us, might still have). Your mother might think you are anorexic when you are not. And unfortunately since this savage rule, to rush someone at the hospital (even if...