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Men should heed female hillwalkers’ safety concerns, says climbing expert

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 17 June - 15:40

List of ‘horror stories’ highlights need to respect women’s personal space and avoid patronising questions

Male mountaineers should be more mindful of women’s concerns about their personal safety in remote areas and avoid patronising them by questioning their map-reading abilities, a climbing expert has said.

The advice comes in response to female hillwalkers and mountaineers saying sceptical attitudes towards their skills and unwanted attention are discouraging women from taking up the sport.

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Five kids in a home gym, mother and daughter cricketers and a karate trio – meet the families who workout together

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 15 June - 10:00

They strengthen muscles – and family bonds. Six sets of relatives who train as a team explain the appeal

Stephanie and Ryan Corcoran rowing with their five children , Juno, Culainn, Elvi , Bernard and Vincent; Wexford, Ireland

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It may be a load of boules, but you can’t avoid pétanque this summer | Lauren O'Neill

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 13 June - 09:00

Wild swimming is so over, so put on your Sambas and prepare to master the fine French art of throwing one ball at another

Trends in big cities always move at a zip, but over the past few years it seems that London has become a particularly faddy place. The en vogue trainer of the moment changes like the unpredictable weather (Adidas Gazelles and Sambas appear to have clung on for the moment, but sports shoes by typically uncool brands such as On are waiting to swoop in at any minute).

Styles you thought were long since dead get resurrected overnight (we are living, hellishly, through the boho revival). Where hobbies are concerned, the winds of change breeze by so frequently that it’s common to see your friends suddenly taking up activities that you would never associate with them in a million years.

Lauren O’Neill is a culture writer

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Hypermobility: a blessing or a curse? – podcast

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 2 April - 04:00

Being more flexible than the average person can have its advantages, from being great at games such as Limbo to feeling smug in yoga class.

But researchers are coming to understand that being hypermobile can also be linked to pain in later life, anxiety, and even long Covid.

Madeleine Finlay hears from the science correspondent Linda Geddes about her experience of hypermobility, and finds out what might be behind its link to mental and physical health

Read Linda Geddes’ article on hypermobility here

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A new start after 60: I had to make my life count before it was too late – so I rowed across the Atlantic

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 06:00

When Sian Davies was waiting for spinal surgery, she stayed sane by planning things to look forward to. Most notably, an extraordinary feat of endurance

When she was 61, Sian Davies decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean. In March 2021, the retired sports and leisure manager was one of 12 crew members who set out on the 3,000-mile journey from Tenerife to battle sun, salt and fierce currents. “We would row in three-hour shifts and only sleep for an hour or so every six hours,” she says. “For the first 15 days I was seasick, so I didn’t eat a thing – I was just rowing and collapsing. I went through some pretty dark times.”

But she didn’t give up, and after 42 days on the water, she reached Antigua to become one of only six women in the world over the age of 60 to have rowed across an ocean. “I was exhausted and I was also so proud of myself,” she says. “It was empowering to push the limits at my age and find out just how much I could do.”

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Spring into spring! 17 simple, surprising ways to refresh and renew your life

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 04:00 · 1 minute

This is the perfect time to make lasting changes – whether embracing exercise, learning a new language, planting seeds or painting your house

Take it from a hopeless dopamine addict, spring is inarguably the best season to get into outdoor exercise. The trick to building the habit – as with any habit, really – is to start small, and reduce friction. Decide what you’re wearing and charge your phone before you go to bed. For your first few sorties, don’t worry about distance, speed or doing a whole workout: just get yourself used to getting up and out of the door. Counterintuitively, it can help to not dress like an athlete: if you go out covered in Lycra, it can feel mortifying to slow to a walk, but if you’re less formally dressed you can stop for a coffee. Keep it playful, and enjoy what your body can do: if that’s some step-ups on a bench or pull-ups on a tree branch, great, but even if it’s just going a little bit faster when a good song kicks in, the endorphin rush is what you’ll remember the next time it’s wet and windy. Oh, and don’t underestimate the value of a well-curated playlist. Many’s the morning I haven’t wanted to go anywhere, only for this Rihanna/Game Of Thrones remix to put a spring back in my step. Joel Snape, fitness writer

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Apple Watch “Pro” rumored to have new bands, price close to $1,000

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 29 August, 2022 - 15:58 · 1 minute

Enlarge / This is not the brand-new Apple Watch "Pro," just the current model, so you'll have to imagine the titanium, the larger size, and the nearly $1,000 price. (credit: Apple)

Numerous Apple-watching outfits have reported that the company is working on a rugged, fitness-minded " Apple Watch Pro, " to be announced at its September 7 event . The device could be even more of an upgrade than some expect, as the latest rumor has the wider, more square-shaped "Pro" watch requiring all-new bands.

Weibo user "Uncle Pan," who has shared accurate information before on AirPods and MagSafe cases, posted Monday from Guangdong that an Apple Watch with a 47 or 48 mm screen will be offered this year. The new band will be wider, indicating a likely square design, Uncle Pan wrote. The user embedded an image from Twitter account Apple Hub, which offered a quirky rendering of the rumored Pro design and cited a price "close to $1,000."

According to Mac Otakara, the upcoming Apple Watch Series 8 “Pro” will feature a larger 47mm size and a flat display. This model is expected to start at a higher price close to $1000 pic.twitter.com/9MmBhkewFA

— Apple Hub (@theapplehub) August 28, 2022

Uncle Pan's post conflicts with Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who reported in late July that while the Pro watch will be larger than existing Apple Watch models, it will not be squared or feature flat sides.

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Apple Fitness+ launches this coming Monday at $9.99 per month

Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 21:10

Apple Fitness+ on an iPhone and Apple Watch. [credit: Apple ]

The big Apple news today was the introduction of AirPods Max, but Apple made a smaller announcement today, too: Apple Fitness+ will launch next Monday, December 14.

Apple Fitness+ is a new service that incorporates music from Apple Music, the health-tracking features of the Apple Watch, and original workout videos led by accomplished trainers, according to Apple. It's the latest in a series of new services that Apple has launched to bolster its revenue over the past couple years, such as Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+.

At launch, Fitness+ will offer the following workout programs:

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Amazon Halo will charge a subscription fee to monitor the tone of your voice

Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 27 August, 2020 - 18:02

Amazon Halo. [credit: Amazon ]

Amazon has announced Halo , a combination subscription service, app, and fitness wearable that promises to use some of the same technology the company developed for Alexa to add a new dimension to personal health tracking—tone of voice.

The product's announcement copy makes the case that "strong social connections are just as important to long-term health as adequate sleep, being fit, having a good diet, or even not smoking."

Using machine-learning-driven speech processing, the device intermittently records your voice and analyzes its tempo, rhythm, pitch, and intensity to make judgments about "the positivity and energy of your voice" where "positivity is measured by how happy or sad you sound, and energy is how excited or tired you sound."

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