Sport for the uninitiated: Fitness when it seems futile Freddie Crawford discusses how Michael Jordan reignited his fitness journey and what he’s been doing to keep fit in lockdown As someone who throughout his first year concerned himself with, quite frankly, more convivial pursuits than self-imposed exercise, I feel I’m not quite at liberty to […]
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Sport for the Uninitiated: Jumping for Joy
Sport for the Uninitiated: Jumping for Joy Sophie Porteous talks about her fitness journey and the mental and physical benefits of getting active Exercise and I have never had a close relationship. Despite my first initial and last name literally combining to be ‘Sporteous’, I could not be further from that. I haven’t always completely […]
The Future of Fitness
Tamara Moule proposes the potential for a new normal in the health and fitness industry post-lockdown.
Home workouts to kick-start your isolation fitness
Alice Tait shares her favourite home workout accounts to kick start your isolation fitness
Are Fitbits as healthy as we think?
As 2018 begins to draw to a close, we can look back on what could be regarded as one of the ‘healthiest years’ of our lifetime thanks to modern technology. The number of people purchasing Gym memberships, substituting meals for Protein shakes and wearing Fitbits has rocketed to new heights. However, as a result of […]
Shaping up
New Year, New Us? Maybe. As usual, it seems like “getting fit” is once again on everyone’s list of New Year’s Resolutions. It might last a few days, a few weeks or miraculously the whole year and beyond. Whilst we should bear in mind that these resolutions aren’t the be all and end all marker […]
That’s So 2017
With every new year comes a wave of new year’s resolutions. It is an opportunity discard everything we do not like about ourselves and embrace new lifestyles. However, there is a reason most new year’s resolutions fail or worse, do not even make it to the end of January. This can be attributed to the […]
Is Practicing Yoga A Form of Cultural Appropriation?
Is it just me or does everyone seem to be a yogi these days? Scrolling through Instagram, it is not uncommon to see, most frequently, a size six fitness blogger in a carefully tailored Lululemon outfit doing some complicated yoga pose in a scenic background. This is usually followed by a spiritual or ‘self love’ quote […]
Exeter Embraces: A New Body Image Movement
Exeter Embraces are two words I hope are on everyone’s lips by the end of the year. What is Exeter Embraces I hear you say? It is a movement set up by Adelaide-born Erasmus student Harriet Iles. Its aim? Encourage Exeter students (that does include you too, boys) to uphold the values of body diversity, […]
‘Girls Do Lift’ event comes to campus
Five students from the Business School have organised two hour-long gym workshops this weekend, in an attempt to encourage more female students to try out weightlifting. Having experienced for themselves the lack of females in the Lower Weights Room on campus, Elizabeth Down, Rebecca Lissmann, Molly Smith, Barbara Pelletier and Andrea McDougall decided it was […]