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Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Perform intermittent activity
Taking short breaks throughout the day is a fantastic way to relax, refocus, refresh, and improve productivity. It can also provide opportunities to gain strength or develop better movement skills, mobilise, and stretch, or even do a short HIIT workout. …
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Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Just move more!
The act of ‘doing more’ helps you to increase the number of calories you are expending (without trying…) and can also help you to actively recover from high-intensity training, train the breath and posture (which can be affected by sitting), …
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Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Perform high-intensity training
High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) has been studied extensively and delivers compelling benefits for fat loss, fitness, and overall health for people ranging from adolescents, athletes, ‘weekend warriors’, and those with health challenges.70, 71 HIIT results in similar or greater …
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Caffeine and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Key points Coffee and caffeine aren’t universally or strongly associated with rheumatoid arthritis riskHigh intakes of coffee (i.e. 4 or more cups per day) might be associated with rheumatoid arthritisThere are likely to be genetic factors at play …
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Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Consult an expert strength coach
It’s crucial that You strength-train and that you use the primal compound movements. But you also need to be sure that you can perform them correctly! Consulting a qualified strength coach with knowledge of good weightlifting technique can help you …
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Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Use ‘primal’ movements in training
Big, compound movements involve more than one joint. Think of the difference between a squat and a bicep curl. These compound movements use the greatest amount of muscle and therefore have the greatest metabolic effect, which equates to more calories …