Steve Haywood Health & Fitness

I have been an avid reader of running magazines and articles for a long time and have seen trends and fashions come and go and even be re born. For a while now the phrase “junk miles” has cropped up now and again, inferring that some miles that are run are in fact useless miles. [...]

I have just been watching another programme about the “obesity time bomb”, this time with teenagers who are demanding gastric by-pass surgery. There appears to be a problem with someone spelling out some simple facts. If you eat more calories than you burn (particularly the wrong kind of calories) and do not exercise you will [...]

I have just returned from a few days in the Lake District where I was staying in some lodges near Keswick at the foot of the wonderful mountain of Skiddaw. Being a seasoned hiker in the Lakes I know and love the ever changing moods of the mountains. However, there is a particular view of [...]

I have just spent a few days in the northern Yorkshire Dales with my wife. We stayed at the historic Simonstone Hall, a former shooting lodge now turned into a fine hotel, which is found just above Hawes on the road to Butter Tubs and Swaledale. As usual we left the car in the car [...]

The Innocent Railway is a disused railway which has been converted into a cycle path. It runs underneath part of Holyrood Park through a tunnel and then skirts Arthur’s Seat, Duddingston Loch, runs alongside the A1 to Milton link and then carries on for the beach at Musselburgh using Brunstane Road. The path is even [...]

Here are races in Northern England and beyond for the rest of the year. We’ve omitted all those races that we found to be full, cancelled or closed to new entries. All of the local races are fairly close to Yorkshire with some of the larger races from further away also listed. We will keep [...]

To help any of us to begin and continue exercising it is really important to have goals or targets. This enables us to keep motivated as we can have the goal in our heads as we progress with training. So what are these goals?

The Percy Pud is held in Loxley on the outskirts of Sheffield -formerly the haunt of the legendary Robin of Loxley -or, Robin Hood. It is a well established and popular route that is often booked up three months in advance. The 2007 event was organised by Steel City Striders and Andy Thake (Hallamshire) won [...]

Compete in the Navy Challenge! Steve Haywood has been working with selected clients on achieving the Royal Navy fitness requirement for recruits. The test goals provide a useful benchmark for fitness and a focus for training. Those who meet the fitness test times can be proud that they are as fit as the British military. [...]