IT GETS ON YOUR NERVES
SCIATICA - What is sciatica and does it necessarily mean surgery? What causes sciatica and what are your options once you’ve been diagnosed? By STEVE DAWSON 1990 in London, I was attending a training class in the torrid pursuit of qualifying as a tax professional. Suddenly I sneezed...
A Sundown Marathon Expanded For All
TRACK - The Gym Pod events coming up in 2022 Whether you fancy 42.195km or just 100m, the SD Track events over the next nine months are targeted for you Beginning this July, The Gym Pod is organising three great track events for Sundown Marathon over the...
CUANDO, CUANDO, CUANDO
TIME -- When is the most productive time of the day to work out and should it be before or after a meal? When is the best time to workout and how should our daily meals fit into all that? Many of you will work out first...
Action for Action
Register for a Class, Get fit, Get Strong and Promote Gender Equality This Month The Gym Pod is celebrating International Women’s Day, by supporting Aware (the Association of Women for Action and Research) in their upcoming campaign. We will be holding four classes this March to support...
Float Like A Butterfly
If you train like a boxer, you don’t have to take the hit By STEVE DAWSON My brother and I were huge boxing fans as kids and that continued into adulthood with some course corrections. I started my journalism career as a boxing reporter and when we left...
Treading The Light Fantastic
New equipment, new opportunities Some of you may have noticed the new treadmills recently installed in gym pods around Singapore. Don’t go thinking they’re only worth trying out when it’s too stormy to go for a run or walk. Here are your top five treadmill trials...
Strength Training for Healthy Bones
Lifting weights isn't just about big bulging muscles; in fact that needn't be a byproduct at all. This activity also promotes bone density, a crucial element to healthy living as we age and become more vulnerable to falls. Earlier this year an elderly, close relative fell...
TAI CHEE
The origins, the form and the benefits, from Manhattan to Marsiling By STEVE DAWSON I’d never seen or heard of Tai Chi until I moved to Singapore. But 27 years later, strolling through Manhattan’s Upper West Side, I saw a young man, in his 20’s, not apparently...
Project 60
60 Days to a Better You: Here’s How We Do Welcome to Gym Pod’s Project 60, a 60-day journey designed to make you see real gains, with manageable expectations, setting yourself up for long-term wellness. Many diets, exercise regimes, health kicks and other good habits begin, only...
Ditching the Bread
Carbs - Are they good for you or bad? What do they do to your body? How do they contribute to obesity and do they impact our health? From Atkins to Keto: high protein, low carb diets explained In 2004, CNN’s Larry King Live invited Dr Robert...