Time to work off those extra COVID kilos. Malcolm Hood strongly believes there’s no reason why you can’t be as comparatively fit at 60 as you were at 30, or even 20. Here’s a three-week programme to a leaner you.

While Judges have all the risks of sickness and injury like every other New Zealander, there are additional risks for judges as Malcolm’s first article discussed. In this edition, Malcolm pleads that there’s more we can do to improve performance before prematurely appearing before Mother Nature’s guaranteed end game of pain and joint surgery.

Getting up and moving when you’re leading a busy life can be difficult, but research proves it’s absolutely essential. Health conditions like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, deep-vein thrombosis, and metabolic syndrome can be connected with “habitual inactivity” like sitting.

Just as we applaud the All Blacks for being actively expansive, fair, and achieving great results professionally, we also applaud our judges for the same attributes. However, judges are not expansively active, rather they’re often selectively sedentary. They select the active use of their brain but their body is often ignored.

During his life, Steve Jobs accumulated much wealth. He died a billionaire at age 56. This is his final essay.

HIIT is a way of exercising that’s proving popular around the world. It stands for high-intensity interval training. It alternates short periods of intense exercise with short recovery breaks. The aim is to keep your heart rate up.