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What can abstinence teach, plus how fit should someone be for their age

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

27/02/2017

BBC Radio Scotland - Personal Best, What can abstinence teach, plus how fit should someone be for their age

Gillian Russell explores what can be learned from a period of abstinence.

Gillian Russell explores what can be learned from a period of abstinence, plus she looks at how fit someone should be for their age.

With Lent fast approaching, have you thought about abstaining from something for 40 days? What do you think you need to do less of? Founder of The Brain Workshops Phil Dobson explains why a period of abstinence can be good for us and gives us some top tips to get through those cravings! 

And you might be pretty good with your fitness but do you ever wonder whether you're fit enough for your age? Are you doing the right kind of stuff? Or perhaps you don't really exercise at all and you're just not sure what you should be doing relative to the age you are? Well, Tim Wright is an elite athlete and physiotherapist who has developed a new checklist to help us work out what we should be doing. Find out if you're fit for fifty or doing plenty at twenty. If you're not, don't worry, we have Claire Craig from Edinburgh Leisure to tell us all about their 'Active Community' project that uses physical activity to improve and in many cases transform the lives of people affected by health conditions, disabilities and poverty to become fit for your age.

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