Steve Haywood Health & Fitness

I recently wrote an article about nature’s high. This was about how exercise can secrete feel-good chemistry in your body with even mild exercise. This is part of achieving what I have called “the positive cycle”. When training people and giving advice about exercise I believe it is a good method to give imagery to [...]

My work has recently brought me into contact with people in their late teens and early twenties. Speaking with them in general about their health I was surprised how many of them smoked, it was a good 80% of this particular group of adults. This has prompted me to write this article, firstly with some [...]

Steve is running the Great North Run 2009 in aid of Candlelighters - a charity based in Leeds. You can donate towards his fundraising efforts on Just Giving by clicking on http://www.justgiving.com/Steve-Haywood/. Here’s what Steve had to say about his campaign:
I am delighted to be running this year’s Great North Run for Candlelighters. This organisation [...]

I have trained and advised people regarding their running for some time now. For people looking to start running for the first time or for those who have just started there are always lots of questions and one of the most fundamental to crop up is “How do I train?” This may seem simplistic but [...]

In the sixties there was a band called the Swinging Blue Jeans who sang a song called “The Hippy Hippy Shake” which was also sung by the Beatles. This was during the era of flower power and the advent of the Hippy movement, which was based on a return and respect for nature (there are [...]