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Rohan Launches Free Matt Roberts Fitness Programme
By Jon on 05/09/2011 15:58:09
New 12-week programme aims to help people get into walking oputdoors for fitness.
Outdoors and adventure travel clothing brand Rohan has announced a new, free walking fitness programme in conjunction with personal trainer to the stars, Matt Roberts.The programme developed from some Rohan consumer research that showed
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Climber Fitted With Bionic Hand
By Jon on 02/07/2001 11:32:00
A Briton badly frostbitten in an Alaskan mountaineering epic has been fitted with an electronic hand
in a stormon the Alaskan mountain in May 1999. The bionic hand uses theelectrical impulses from the nervous sytem and is the first time anadult with a partial hand amputation had been fitted with anelectronic prosthesis.Ball can now carry out everyday
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Government Fitness Drive May Open Footpaths
By Jon on 14/10/2003 10:10:50
A government initiative to tackle the problem of fat, unfit people may also promote the opening up of more country paths according to press reports at the weekend
the need to tackle growing flabbiness and lack offitness in the population as a whole. About half the adult populationdoes little or no sport, says the paper, something which thegovernment is reportedly to tackle with a fitness campaign linked tothe 2012
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Garmin Launches Garmin Fit App
By Jon on 26/10/2011 12:09:06
New app for iPhone and Android allows work-out tracking and sharing with option to add more sophisticated data via ANT+
Garmin has launched Garmin Fit, an app for iPhone and Android platforms which allows users to track speed, pace, distance, time and calories during an outing or training session and, with a new Garmin adaptor, display and track heart rate
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The North Face Wins Magazine Award
By Jon on 15/10/2003 11:56:47
The North Face has won an award from Men's Fitness Magazine in the Outdoor Wear category
The North Face has won a prestigious award - note that awards arealways 'prestigious' here in meeja land - from the men's fitnessmagazine, erm, Men's Fitness.The company won the Men's Fitness magazine ACTIVE AWARD 2003 forthe category OUTDOOR WEAR
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ME Announces Mark Clifford Grant
By Jon on 05/03/2007 12:37:39
A fitting tribute to Mountain Equiment's marketing manager who died last year.
. It was always a pleasure to spend a couple of hours inhis company going through the latest ME range and just chatting.ME felt it was fitting that the Mark Clifford Grant shouldconcentrate on encouraging and supporting young mountaineers. In hisrole as Marketing
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Mountain Rescue Call-Outs Rise Again
By Jon Doran on 12/04/2010 14:06:19
Call-outs rise and many, say rescuers, are due to poor navigation and lack of fitness.
The number of news stories about the number of mountain rescue call-outs has risen exponentially over the last few years with more appearing over the weekend and today. In one them, the chair of the Lake District Mountain Rescue Association
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Fiennes Undergoes Heart By-Pass Surgery
By Jon on 09/06/2003 10:59:48
Top explorer and legendarily fit adventure racer Ranulph Fiennes has had emergency heart surgery after suffering a heart attack at the weekend
by Bristol Royal Infirmary as'critical but stable' after he underwent surgery and he is inintensive care.Fiennes now 59, is best known for his polar exploration epics, butis also an active adventure racer with a level of fitness that's theenvy of men half his
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Yes Way!
By Jon on 25/04/2005 10:37:06
The weekend's Pennine Way birthday celebrations saw the entire route walked in a day in a fitting participatory tribute to Britain's first official long distance path.
that the entire route was walked on Sunday, albeit notin one go. The good news is that on a perfect spring day, the planseems to have worked brilliantly with Countryside Agency trailofficer, Steve Westwood assuring the Guardian newspaper that "It
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Top Coach Offers Training For Normal People
By Jon on 21/05/2007 11:54:41
Zip up that hill with a customised personal programme, plus a special introductory OM offer.
're preparing for a challenging trek, or maybe tryingto increase your mountaineering fitness for a season in the Alps,Dave could be the answer. Ditto if you're doing an adventure race orone of the mountain marathon events.Using the same principles and working
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