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#40 – How Much Exercise?

How much exercise? – a tricky question; how little can one get away with?; normal is not useful; driving speed analogy: my septuagenarian boy racer; less is more? – yeah, nah; Born to Walk; living to 180; sultry Sally striding the hills; expectations of rotundity; stereotypically running to fat – the couch potato; over-achieving sexy-generians like Kelly, Sue, Clint and Charleen; downhill over the decades – a matter of mindset?; dem bones, and what Roy and I do

What is the right amount of exercise? How frequently should we be breaking a sweat? Also, exactly what counts as exercise?

These are tricky questions, with answers that are different for everyone. They’re always going to be subjective and influenced by personal factors: age, health status, current fitness goals… and, let’s face it, whether or not you can be arsed.

For a lot of people, the real question may be: how little exercise can I get away with?

Or even: what’s normal, or average? … but that’s no longer a useful concept. Who would aim to be normal in a world full of sedentary, unfit and sick people?

You’re either the kind of person who would wake up in the dark for sunrise hike on Bawah Island, or you’re not. (I am, Roy is not.)

#36 Ageing Disgracefully? – Part Three, DIY for Ageing Backwards

The disgraceful fabulosity of ageing backwards; eat for longevity – all hail to cake!; Dave Asprey’s plan to maybe live forever; Dr Kara Fitzgerald; take this ageing backwards quiz!; epigenetic tests to measure ageing; eating for longevity; would you eat a politician?; time-restricted eating; destressing for longevity; grounding, walking in nature

Feature photo, above: My crazily energetic Les Mills Pump class friends at Craigie Leisure Centre

You know the slightly lame jokes some of us start making about birthdays after a certain age: “I’m not having birthdays anymore” (a bad idea), or “I’ve started counting backwards”.

While it would be a dreadful shame to renounce the champagne, cake, prezzies and general hurrah-ness that go with celebrating the anniversary of ones birth, actually ageing backwards would be a fabulously disgraceful approach to getting older.

#21 How is Your Light Diet? Part One: Vit D, Sunshine and More

Our light diet may be as important as sleep, nutrition and exercise, VERNE MAREE discovers.

I rejoice when I see Roy outside with his shirt off. Not only because he – like most of us – looks heaps better with a tan, but because I know it’s boosting his immune system and helping him to live long and strong.

In fact, he’s just had a load of blood tests – and his Vitamin D is way up where it belongs.

Light Diet — Roy on Yallingup Beach, WA, a couple of weeks ago.

(The above pic of Roy on Yallingup Beach was taken a couple of weeks ago; click here for that travel blog post, and if you like it, please sign up to Travels with Verne and Roy!)

March 20, 2022April 28, 2022

#19 When to Eat

When to eat might be as important a question as what to eat. VERNE MAREE spills the beans on how Roy and she are faring with Intermittent Fasting (IF) and Time-Restricted Feeding (TRF).

It’s not just what you eat that matters. When you eat is important, too. I’m a firm believer in both intermittent fasting and time-restricted feeding. If you’re not already on track, why not give it a try?

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022

#17 Snoring

Snoring – are you a perpetrator or a victim? VERNE MAREE confesses to having been both, and offers some solutions.

Snoring is no joke… it’s a serious hazard to your health, and possibly to your relationship, too.

Snoring couple — Photo credit: Kampus by Pexels

True Snoring Story, UK Summer 2005

Snorers often don’t like to admit they snore, and Roy was one of them. But his cover was irrevocably blown one summer, when he rented a lovely converted barn in Warwickshire – close to his mother’s home – to accommodate the whole family.