Fitness Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/fitness/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:00:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Fitness Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/fitness/ 32 32 2696646 Fitness Lost https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/09/fitness-lost/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/09/fitness-lost/#respond Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:46:00 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36704 I may have been given the green light to exercise following my heart attack in June, but it’s going to be a hard road back to fitness. Here’s my ‘Fitness and Freshness’ chart from Strava I don’t think it takes a genius to work out where the heart attack event was. Prior to that I...

The post Fitness Lost appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/09/fitness-lost/feed/ 0 36704 Fitness Rewards https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/fitness-rewards/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/fitness-rewards/#respond Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:48:02 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21242 As a quick follow up to my recent ‘Get Rewarded When you Exercise‘ post I thought I’d let you know that the Bounts scheme has been working well for me. I’ve been gradually amassing points and rather than cash them in when I reached enough points for a £5 voucher decided to hold out for...

The post Fitness Rewards appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/fitness-rewards/feed/ 0 21242 Get Rewarded when you Exercise https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/01/get-rewarded-from-exercise/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/01/get-rewarded-from-exercise/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:49:05 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21098 Exercise Rewards As far as I’m concerned, exercise of almost any form is already fairly rewarding. It’s good for your health, it’s good for your general wellbeing, it makes you look and feel good, it can get you out in the real world doing cool things and visiting nice places and the release of endorphins...

The post Get Rewarded when you Exercise appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/01/get-rewarded-from-exercise/feed/ 13 21098 Garmin Fenix 3 v6.50 – New Features for Free https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/01/garmin-fenix-3-v6-50-new-features-for-free/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/01/garmin-fenix-3-v6-50-new-features-for-free/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:33:33 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20960 I know it’s only a watch, but I love my Garmin Fenix 3, and even more so now that I have a Fenix 3 v6.50 . It looks good, it does pretty much everything I want it to, it has more features than you can shake a stick at and I still can’t quite get...

The post Garmin Fenix 3 v6.50 – New Features for Free appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/01/garmin-fenix-3-v6-50-new-features-for-free/feed/ 21 20960 Weblog as Therapy https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/weblog-as-therapy/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/weblog-as-therapy/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2015 07:26:13 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20593 This weblog is many things. It’s the starting point for our amazing weblog book. Hopefully its’s entertaining, interesting, informative and useful. Some posts are fun, some are serious. It covers an eclectic range of topics, from baking to beekeeping, technology to triathlon or windsurfing to wildlife, it’s all here. It’s a journal of our life...

The post Weblog as Therapy appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/weblog-as-therapy/feed/ 4 20593 Ultimate Turbo Trainer Set Up, Gadgets, Software and Workflow https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/the-ultimate-turbo-trainer-set-up-gadgets-software-and-workflow/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/the-ultimate-turbo-trainer-set-up-gadgets-software-and-workflow/#respond Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:55:02 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20569 I’m quite pleased with my turbo trainer set up, the software I use with it, the ‘workflow’ I have to record everything and the gadgets that I use to make this happen. I’ve mentioned many of them here in passing, but thought I’d write a post about the whole kit and caboodle. What I use, how it...

The post Ultimate Turbo Trainer Set Up, Gadgets, Software and Workflow appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/the-ultimate-turbo-trainer-set-up-gadgets-software-and-workflow/feed/ 0 20569 Weight Trend – Withings WS-50 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/11/weight-trend/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/11/weight-trend/#respond Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:51:53 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20473 Ooh, a new ‘Weight Trend’ screen has suddenly appeared on our Withings WS-50 Smart Body Analyser Scales. Ok, it’s not ground breaking news but it’s still quite nice to get an update to a pair of scales without asking for it. Weight Trend Screen The new weight trend screen is displayed after the weight measurement screen...

The post Weight Trend – Withings WS-50 appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/11/weight-trend/feed/ 0 20473 Pushing my Limits https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/01/pushing-limits/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/01/pushing-limits/#respond Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:49:36 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18287 I’m doing my best to stick to my new plan of increasing my training a little as the race season gets ever closer. As well as my large scale annual periodisation in which I’m trying something new, I also have a meso-scale pattern within my training where I do a 3 week cycle. This consists of...

The post Pushing my Limits appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/01/pushing-limits/feed/ 0 18287 Ramp Test and DXA Scan https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/01/ramp-test-dxa-scan/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/01/ramp-test-dxa-scan/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:16:16 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18245 As regular readers of this weblog will know, I often volunteer as a participant in various studies at the Sports and Exercise Department at Aberystwyth University. Most of these require a fair bit of my time to do but often prove interesting and painful in equal measure. Interesting from a point of view of getting a measure on...

The post Ramp Test and DXA Scan appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/01/ramp-test-dxa-scan/feed/ 2 18245 Time for a MAF Test https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/time-maf-test/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/time-maf-test/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:35:43 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18081 Hot on the heels of my FTP Test on  the bike on Monday, it was time to monitor progress (or lack of) in my running by performing a MAF Test. MAF, a term coined by Dr. Phil Maffetone stands for Maximum Aerobic Function – I won’t go into it here as I have a post planned about it...

The post Time for a MAF Test appeared first on A Simple Life of Luxury.

]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/time-maf-test/feed/ 0 18081