http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/exercise-and-injury/8372902
Final in the five-part series on exercise and injury, broadcast on ‘Life Matters’ on ABC FM Radio National.
Archive for the Fitness Category
ABC FM Radio National: Exercise and Injury Part Five
Posted in Fitness, Radio National with tags ABC FM, Amanda Smith, Exercise, injury, Life Matters, Radio National on April 18, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Weight Training: What’s the Big Deal?
Posted in Fitness, Radio National, resistance training with tags ABC FM, barbell, bend, callisthenics, chin-up, core, dumbbell, Free Jazz, free weights, gait pattern, kettlebell, Life Matters, lunge, Ornette Coleman, pull, push, push-up, resistance training, squat, The Exercise Room, twist, weight training on March 27, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
This article is the basis for the ABC FM Life Matters segment, ‘The Exercise Room.’
The broadcast can be listened to here.
What is weight training?
Weight training is one form of resistance training. Weights – barbells and dumbells – are the implements that immediately come to mind for most people, but there are a multitude of different tools you can use, all of which will give you a different result. Continue reading
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Radio National: Fitness and Creativity.
Posted in Creativity, Fitness, Radio National with tags ABC FM, Creativity, fitness on February 28, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Radio National: Exercise and Injuries
Posted in Fitness with tags ABC FM, Exercise, injury, Radio National on February 23, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Your humble narrator on the subject of the aforementioned.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/exercise-and-injuries-part-1/8290382
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Radio National: To Gym or Not to Gym?
Posted in Fitness with tags ABC FM, Exercise, fitness, gyms, Life Matters, Radio National on February 11, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Goodlife – the WORST gym in the World
Posted in Fitness, Goodlife, Journalism with tags Ardent Leisure, Armadale, CEO, dangerous, deathtrap, Deborah Thomas, Dreamworld, Glen Iris, Goodlife Gyms, Prahran, scumbag, The Age Newspaper on November 6, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Front Page of The Age Newspaper, Saturday October 29
Ardent Leisure are the parent company of both Dreamworld and Goodlife Gyms. I parted company with them in 2016 in no small part because of their refusal to properly maintain their facilities. Continue reading
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Eight Ways to Spot a Good Gym
Posted in Fitness, Goodlife with tags Executive Style, fitness, Goodlife, gyms, The Age Newspaper on May 13, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Today’s Age Newspaper.
http://www.executivestyle.com.au/eight-ways-to-spot-a-good-gym-gotdup
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Zen for Violent Men
Posted in Fitness, Observation with tags Gregory David Roberts, Iron Edge, koan, Power lifting, Steve Pritchard, Zen on January 19, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Perfect Day
Posted in Fitness, Jokes with tags beach, Middle Park pier, old school, Olympia Gymnasium, Paul Johnston, perfect day, Tony Kimonides on January 14, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Paul Johnston, proprietor of Olympia Gym, is visible sticking his head out the front door to find out why the hell I was standing in the middle of the street, staring at my iPhone.
It was 42 degrees today. I hit the weights at the great Olympia gym in South Melbourne and then went and splashed around at the beach near Middle Park pier. Perfect holidays are made of this.
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Charles Poliquin – Minister of Insanity
Posted in Fitness with tags Charles Poliquin, crazy people, Super-accumulation program on March 14, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
This is probably my favorite training article – ever. Not only is it a fascinating insight into the kind of methods – and attitudes – that produce elite sportspeople, it’s also hellaciously funny.
And it’s my kind of humor.
Enjoy.
