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Apr 12 2014

Have you kept to your fitness resolutions?

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If the answer is yes, then I take my hat off to you because you are the rare lucky one who has taken action and stuck to it. If you are the unlucky one caught up with procrastination, work, life and the very original excuse that the reason you could not do your gym work […]




Tags: first Stage, Harvard, lifestlyle, loss, Medical, Resolutions, Weight
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Mar 8 2014

End-of-career choices facing SA athletes

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Graeme Smith announced his retirement from cricket this week ending a journey which started with his debut on March 8, 2002 against Australia at the tender age of 22 years. The question that has been bouncing around the social media platforms is: “What is Graeme Smith going to do after cricket?” This would all depend […]




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Feb 8 2014

Children should learn to climb trees again

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 Obesity is causing health problems for families and it is only a matter of time before medical aids start charging you the same premium rates for your children. However, there is another epidemic plaguing the healthy development of our youth and that is “low muscle tone”. I had never even heard of that phrase until […]




Tags: Climbing Trees, Fun games with your child, Low muscle tone, Obesity Health Problem, Primal Functional Movements, Slouching, Techno whiz, There is one golden rule with young children
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Nov 26 2013

Mind Sets stifling the growth in Sport

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Two of the biggest problems facing development and progression of sport are ego and ignorance. I attended the 40 year celebration of a Johannesburg club last night. They unravelled their master plan on how they were going to take their already well-respected club to another level and provide a succession plan for young athletes to […]




Tags: development and progression of sport, Ego in sports, Eric Tinkler, ignorance in sports, speed of thought, Sports Scientist, Sports Scince
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Nov 12 2013

Superfoods. Myth or truth?

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When you walk into a greengrocer, do you believe that all foods are equal in nutrition? Do you believe some have mystical natural healing powers, or is all this talk of superfoods nothing more than some high grade marketing ploy to sell more products? It’s hard to believe anything nowadays because marketers have become so […]




Tags: Are Superfoods a myth, Aron Moses, Bringing Superfood back into context, Dr. Perricone, Food protection against cancer, natural healing powers, Nature Nutrition, Superfoods False, Superfoods is a marketing terminology, Superfoods true
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Nov 5 2013

Sleep your way to success

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Sleep single-handedly might be the cause as to why you are not performing in your sport. Sure, you are putting in the hours of hard work, you are eating correctly and you are analysing your performances on a weekly basis. Most days you feel like you are just chasing your tail. The answer may lie […]




Tags: 8 hours of sleep, Ghrelin, Gumustekin, Gumustekin et al, Leptin, Sleep, Sleep and sports, Sleep Deprived Athletes, Sleep is vital to recovery in sports, Sleep your way to success, Success in sports, Weight Gain due to not enough sleep
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Oct 29 2013

Old versus New in Basketball

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Successful companies have successful leaders. You would agree with me that if you work for one of the top 100 companies in South Africa, your chief-in-command is a relatively elderly looking man or woman. Throughout culture humans are more inclined to listening and following an elder than a young wet-behind-the-ears-know-it-all. What happens when your job […]




Tags: Alaska Kipundu, Basketball, Basketball Athleticism, Basketball discrimination, Basketball in South-Africa, Basketball Leadership, BNL, National Basketball League, NBA, Successful Basketball Leaders
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Oct 8 2013

Sponsorship can make Polo more affordable

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  One hundred and twenty nine years ago the British occupied South Africa and in their cavalry they had, in relation, as many horses as there are cars today. Horses played a key role and gave a tactical advantage during this era, but what was meant for work, soon turned to play. A polo horse […]




Tags: Guy Kilfoil, Polo, Polo affordable, Polo South Africa, Polo the sport, The South African Polo Association, watch South Africa beat the Chileans
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May 4 2013

Weight Training is the key to a healthier life.

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The top 3 Benefits of weight Training of all Time Not doing weight training is as taboo as keeping your wife at home in the kitchen and only taking her out on special occasions. It is just plain wrong and too “sixties” for anybody’s liking. If times have changed then why haven’t you kept up […]




Tags: being fat like star wars Jabba the Hutt, Can weight training fight disease such as hypertension and diabetes, Can weight training improve your immune system and help with mental fatigue?, Can weight training reduce stress?, stay away from meaningless cardio, weight trainng help you burn calories 15 times faster, weightloss through weight training
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Mar 4 2012

Video: Crazy Days of Summer

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Tags: Hanging Out, Summer, Surfing, Videos
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