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GREEN EXERCISE ?

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Physical benefits of cold water and ice baths.

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Mental Health: Olympian Leon Taylor’s top tips for managing mental health

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How Cycling can change your life

I stopped diving in 2008; a back injury
prevented me from continuing and my medical team told me firmly I should ONLY
do yoga for the foreseeable years. Not being someone that does as he’s told
very often, in 2009 I ran the London Marathon for SportsAid!!I favoured running over any other kind of
movement at that time but between 2009 and 201