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Sunday Morning Coffee Thoughts 4th November 2012

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of...

The Trials of a Magic Flute, Life and Gym

For many of us life is full of trials, each bringing its own challenges and each, in its own way, as difficult as the next. Whether it is...

Sunday Morning Coffee Thoughts 28/10/2012

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” Mother Teresa Sometimes a quote needs no explanation...

Sunday Morning Post Coffee Thoughts 21/10/2012

“For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto another brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if...

Sniffles, weights and Princess Anne

There are times in our lives when nothing beats a good cry. An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr is my excuse to ball...

9 months later … time to take stock!

I was sitting at my desk today when it suddenly dawned on me that it has been almost 9 months since I started this Gym thing at The...

Consider the Pyramids … The next step

So you have made that all important decision to make a change, whether it is to start swimming or up your weight training, taking that...

The tough route to Decisionville!

Decisions, decisions, decisions? So hard to make we named them thrice! I can’t remember who said that to me but it is so true, my theory...

Fears, duvets and dogs!

Fear Noun: An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat Verb: Be...

Sunday Morning Post Coffee Thoughts 09/09/2012

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre) Freedom! When you...

The Perils of the Plateau

And so my friends, another weigh has come and gone and I have stayed exactly the same, nothing on and nothing off! All my efforts at the...

Into space and back in one evening !

I have a question for you. How many times have you looked at the sky and wondered what it would be like to up there looking down at us?...

Dizzy disappointment

Woke this morning feeling great, nice long lie, leisurely breakfast and nothing to do but spend the whole morning on me. Perfect, day...

Being sure of me !

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh?” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. “I just wanted to...

Sunday Morning Post Coffee Thoughts 26/08/2012

“If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!” ― J.M....

Learning to be human tooooo !

So after all the trials and tribulations of the last week, a good old gym session was definitely in order, my emotions have been put...

The Morning After !

You know that Monday morning feeling when the alarm goes off; you fumble around in the dark for your specs to try to find the button to...

Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow

Ow ! Did I say that already ? I don’t actually hurt so much, more I feel like I have two dead legs and an arm that has gone to sleep....

To Boldy Go Where No Gymophobe Has Been Before

The Gym ! Okay, so it was just a visit to meet the very patient Mark and look around The Western Gym and Tennis Club on Hyndland Road,...

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