By the Dart • Diet & Fitness
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Diet & Fitness By Harry Fenton - Local personal trainer advising us on how to keep fit & healthy TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR BODY.
resolving to “get fitter” or give up the booze, setting a few attainable and measurable targets is a good idea and can help to motivate you. My first piece of advice is to keep a fitness diary. Keeping track of your exercise sessions really helps to get you off your backside and to start doing something. no training equals no entry in the diary! try to log everything, even a fast dog walk. some people record their weight once a month or maybe check their waist measurement and record that too. Keeping a note of your resting pulse is also useful. If your fitness regime is working, your pulse will come down slightly over a long period of time. Keeping a log helps to check if you have done something to cause an injury and can help you set your aims for the next year. e.g. last year I did 8,600 press-ups, this year I want to do 10,000. secondly, use your brain. Don`t listen to advertisers,
I
`m not one for new Year`s Resolutions but this is as good a time as any to have a look at your lifestyle and think about ways to improve it. Rather than
I do press-ups on the window-cill and tricep dips on the coffee table.
it. no big guys laughing at me, no awful teeny-bopper music or soft-porn on the gym tv. no £30 per month fee plus car-parking. I train when I want wearing scruffy old rags and nobody sees me, except the dog, who joins in! It doesn`t really matter what you do as long as you enjoy it. Fast walking, jogging dancing, Pilates, rowing, boxercise, whatever. As long as you puff a bit and also work most of your muscles that`s brilliant. If you get bored, try something else. try training with a friend if you find it boring on your own. Maybe just do 10 minutes a day of hard exercise if you want. But do something, or time and age will surely catch up with you sooner than you think. Are you overweight? If you can`t get
into that pair of jeans anymore, you probably are. Measure you height and half it. If your waist is more than that, plus one inch if you are getting on a bit,
then you are overweight. Look into a full length mirror. If you say” eeek”, you are overweight, it`s that simple! Good luck, get stuck in and take charge of your body.•
ridicule articles in newspapers selling the latest diets, scoff at faddish exercise regimes. Common sense tells you how to exercise and what is sensible to eat and drink. Learn how to check the amount of sugar in a can of beans and work out how many calories are in your favourite tipple. Always remember: “low fat”, written in big letters on food items equals high sugar content! If you don`t buy rubbish, you can`t eat it, so buy good food and the odd treat. You are in charge and of what you buy and your good habits will be passed on to your children. I buy bars of 70% choccy and eat a couple of squares most nights. If I didn`t have that I would feel deprived. the newspapers at the moment are filled will pictures of slim, young women selling their exercise regimes. Ignore most of it. they will look as old as the rest of us in 20 years time! You really don`t have to go to a gym to train. I do my
exercises in my lounge and garage. I do press-ups on the window-cill and tricep dips on the coffee table. then I use £25 dumbells to do some bicep curls and shoulder exercises. I dance around a bit to cool down and that`s
With 30 years of training and competition, Harry can train you in your home or outdoors - using walking, cycling, light weights and stretching to lose weight, tone up and get fitter. If interested call Harry on 01803 770752 or email
harrymfenton@googlemail.com
REGISTERED
CHIROPODIST PODIATRIST Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Victoria Tolchard BSc. (Hons),
M.Ch.S. For friendly and professional treatment, call
Tel: 01803 839 562 Ground Floor, The Anzac Club Limited Collaford Lane, Dartmouth TQ6 9DJ
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