A practical guide to eating less meat A 5-day (one-a-week) email course from Vox. “[It’ll] teach you how to easily incorporate more plant-based foods into your diet, give you evidence-based behavior strategies to make it last, and serve up plenty of food for thought on how our choices impact animals, […]

Pick one upper-body exercise and one lower-body exercise that complement each other. Pair an upper-body push exercise, such as an overhead press or a push-up, and pair it with a lower-body exercise that includes some form of upper-body pulling. Usually, that pull in the lower-body exercise is isometrics. Such as […]

Standing or moving on a balance board or a Bosu ball isn’t going to improve ankle strength unless you’re in the early stages of ankle rehab after surgery. Building strength requires significant resistance. Doing strength exercises on a balance board will limit the amount of weight you can move, as […]

Whether the Zone 2 hype is warranted depends on one significant factor: whether you have female or male physiology. But first, here’s a quick recap of zone 2 training: Any continuous cardio activity at around 70-75% of your max heart rate for over 30 minutes. Ideally closer to an hour. […]

In hindsight, ‘getting on HRT means you’re smart’ wasn’t the right thing to say in my earlier blog. A more accurate would’ve been to highlight that no one should ignore HRT without first speaking to a trusted health expert well-versed in HRT. Many general practitioners (most?) aren’t up to date […]

As a recovering perfectionist with a history of orthorexic eating and an obsessive approach to exercise in my 20s, I can relate to most of this. “Often people think about it as just having high standards,” Anna Bardone-Cone, professor in the psychology and neuroscience department at the University of North […]

Unless you’re part of a particular cult, most hiking follows a predictable pattern: you move forward—one leg after another. Sure, you go up and down in elevation. But you’re still moving forward. If hiking and step-ups, split squats, and lunges are all you do, you’ll eventually run (hike?) into trouble. […]

Here’s a simple way to build your aerobic base without leaving the house. If you’re stuck inside because of a cyclone, pollution or cane toad armageddon. Do weighted step-ups with 20% of your body weight. For a 70kg woman, that’s 14kg. You can hold a kettlebell or last night’s tray […]

That kind of thinking seems to fall in line with the common theme of the pointy end of health and wellness: Humans are weak if we can’t deal with our ailments without outside help. No painkillers. No IVF. No HRT. And definitely no vaccinations! Only because they’re “not natural.” But […]

If menopause symptoms are messing up with your life, the answer is probably a resounding yes. And that’s regardless of if you’re peri- or postmenopause. Now, as you well know, I am not a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) expert. In fact, I know very little about what it entails. But […]