The Afterword

Tag: fitness

  • The Exercise That Fits

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    What’s the most fun way to exercise? I’m surrounded by young adults, so I get to see some of the ways younger generations make exercise fun. One student heads into the city for a dance class at the Sydney Dance Company. That sounds like fun. Others are into bouldering, joining niche gyms built around that…

  • Why Swimming Is My Olympic Sport

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    What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most? Swimming is the Olympic sport I most enjoy watching. Part of that is cultural. As an Australian, I have grown up in a country where water is woven into ordinary life. We are surrounded by beaches, pools and waterways. Hundreds of thousands of people volunteer as…

  • The Most Human Thing I Do

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    What are your favourite physical activities or exercises? My favourite physical activity is simply walking. I know that sounds very vanilla, but that’s me. I’m not a rock climber. I’m not a gym person. I don’t crave the adrenaline of extreme sports. I just like walking. For more than fifty years I played competitive football.…

  • How Often Do I Walk or Run?

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    I don’t run these days. I’m a bit old for it, and if I were to run, I’d prefer to do it in a game with teammates—passing, chasing, laughing—not as a solitary exercise. But I walk every day, and rarely alone. In fact, as I write this, I’m heading out the door with the dog.…

  • The Quiet Ones

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    As an Australian, it almost feels like swimming is part of our DNA. We’re a coastal people—literally. Around 87% of us live within 50 kilometres of the coastline. All of our major cities hug the shore. That’s over 22 million people who call the coast home, and when we talk about the “classic Aussie holiday,”…