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Illustrating a Fitness Book

January 17, 2019January 12, 2020 by richie_neville In Mental Fitness, NewsTags: Beginners Fitness, Fitness, Mental Fitness

I get asked a lot why I use drawings instead of photographs for the fitness books I write for Internal Force Fitness. There are two answers to that question really: I enjoy doing the pictures (and am getting better at them!), I didn’t want to present something people felt they had to 100% copy. Everyone moves differently, so the images I present are there to give you the bare bones of the exercise. How you will look doing it is Read More

Japanese Ikigai Exercises

March 31, 2018February 17, 2020 by richie_neville In Fitness, Lifestyle, NewsTags: Bodyweight Exercise, Exercise, Ikigai, Keep Fit, Radio Taiso, Recreation, Relaxation

Japanese Ikigai Exercises Ikigai is a Japanese word which basically means ‘reason for being’ in the sense of answering “what should I do with my life??”. One of the ways to ‘unlock’ your ikigai is with Japanese Ikigai Exercises. It has been suggested that since the concept has its origins in the Japanese island of Okinawa – home to an unusually large population of people over 100 years old – that ikigai may hold the key to both happiness AND Read More