The majority of golf fans walk more than 10,000 steps while spectating at a tournament.
Playing organised sports can help girls do better off the field as well as on. Katie Byrne looks at 10 facts - from barriers to benefits - concerning women in sport.
As footballing pedigrees go, they don't come much purer than Sarah Rowe's. The Ballina-born 21-year-old grew up listening to stories told by her grandfather Paddy Jordan - a member of the famous 1951 Mayo All-Ireland winning team.
For a soccer-mad teenager the call up to train with the Republic of Ireland women's under-16 team was like a dream come true. But for 15-year-old Kate McClenaghan from Greencastle in Co Donegal, the friendships she's made in her early sporting career are what make...
Niamh Dwyer's basketball career trajectory began when she took up the sport in secondary school. Still playing at the highest level at the age of 35, today she has come full circle coaching young girls in her sport.
Hard work doesn't seem to phase Katie Mullan. The 23-year-old captain of the Irish women's hockey team is also completing a master's in biomedical engineering at UCD and has just finished competing in Hockey World League semi-finals in South Africa.
Niamh Dwyer's basketball career trajectory began when she took up the sport in secondary school. Still playing at the highest level at the age of 35, today she has come full circle coaching young girls in her sport.
There are a few commonly suggested ideas to help women achieve gender parity in the workplace.
It's just amazing how so much can change in less than a decade when it comes to the fitness levels of our children.
When it comes to participating in organised sport, girls and women are generally less active.
What an amazing weekend! Great weather — and so much sport to watch.
We’ve all heard breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but what about on the morning of a big run?
We all need a leader of some kind in our lives. Be it the teacher in school, the Student Union president in college, the manager at work, the influencer on your social media or anyone else who you follow, having someone to look up to can take some of the fear...
There was a time when people had 'jobs for life' and younger employees looked up to their older and wiser colleagues.
While it might not take as much money as it once did to have a summer littered with fresh, original, and stimulating family firsts, the trade-off is this: you must get off the couch and make it happen. Yes, you! Don't let the grass grow under your feet this summer: Ireland is small, and life is short.
Now that July is upon us, we are well and truly into summer.
Dublin-based physiotherapist Tomas O'Connell meets six to seven new patients suffering from running-related injuries in his Rathfarnham practice every week.
The SPAR FitLive 5k Run is now only two weeks away and my recurring thought is: "Why am I doing this? It hurts!" Of course, I then remember the endgame, and persevere.
When I see people out pounding the pavements on a balmy summer's evening, I often ask myself the question - are they running for fitness, weight loss or just because they love the feeling.
So how is your training going? Good I hope! Al has really been upping his effort levels to ensure that he is ready for his first ever 5k and is determined to really knuckle down this week before the taper of next week kicks in.
So it started like all of my other client meetings.
You don't need to tell 71-year-old Bill Redmond from Duncormick, Co Wexford, about the life-changing benefits of walking. He is living proof that this, the most pedestrian of exercise forms, can change your life.
"The only workout you ever regret is the one you don't do." No truer words have ever been spoken, and I've yet to do a workout that I wish I hadn't done.
Change. Mix it up. Do something different. These words will make a huge difference to your progress over the coming weeks and you are now fit enough to make those changes.
Let's face it, life has never been busier! Longer work days, longer commutes and busy social lives mean that getting healthy and trying to fit exercise into your day has become harder and harder.
It's getting close to the actual 5k run and, like a true showman, I am in my element.
Many people associate strength training with creating muscular men and women, which may not be the look we want for our own body shape. In fact, this is far from the truth.
The biggest problem I have with the endless diets I find myself on is that I tend to forget which regime I'm supposed to be following, and start applying the half-remembered slimming rules from 20 years ago: low carb, no carb, only carbs. At the end of every diet, I seem to end up eating yards of baguettes with cheese, olives and red wine.
So here we are, week 10 of my 10 essential exercises that everyone should know.
Your core: the centre of the body. The area that everyone wants to improve, always.
Couch to Carcassonne to 5k doesn't really have the same ring to it but that's what I've done. Having over-indulged at a wedding in the south of France this past weekend (far from that I was reared) - I needed to tackle my training head-on. I said Yes to the Dress, the Cake, the Wine... Once I got home last Tuesday, it was back to the grind.
There is a saying that losing body fat is 70% diet, 30% training. Given that, you could be forgiven for wondering if training is therefore really all that important, or could you just do the healthy eating part of a fitness regime?
Wind the clock back 20 years and the only people who went to the gym were bodybuilders and fitness fanatics - people with an unusual level of interest in keeping their bodies in top shape. But today it's a different story.
When Louise Green turned up for her first half-marathon, she was, at 5ft 6in, a UK size 18 and weighed 13 and a half stone. She asked organisers for her marathon package, and they handed her one for the fun run instead.
Another of the leg classics this week, the lunge is one of the old school exercises that is great for your legs, your bum and can be combined into a full body exercise too by adding in some other exercises.
Welcome to the SPAR FitLive 5k and 10k run training page. Over the course of the next eight weeks, Al Porter will be training his socks off to get himself ready for his very first 5k run! Every week we will be bringing you everything you need to know to get you ready for both the 5k and the 10k events, with the weekly training schedule, a resistance exercise to try and an update from Al to...
The squat: probably the most famous leg exercise of all time.
For the past few weeks, I've been focusing on the bicep muscles at the front of the arms, a crucial component of any workout. But today I want to turn my attention to the opposite arm muscle, the tricep at the back of the arms.
Last week we looked at some of my favourite calorie-burning workouts, in readiness for summer.
The biceps: one of the most popular muscle groups to train.
There can be many reasons why we decide to slow our training down through life, and if you are trying to conceive, it could be an opportunity to change the pace of your workouts.
How did you get on with last week's military press? Remember there are lots of ways that you can adapt each of the exercises that I cover in the column every week. You can add more weight, increase the reps range or even superset it with another exercise...
Our busy lives may not leave much time for exercise and meal preparation and, at the end of the day, I'm a realist about what you can achieve given your lifestyle.
Marathons can be risky for hearts, but not necessarily those of the runners. It takes longer for nearby residents to get to a hospital for emergency heart care on the day of a race and they're less likely to survive, a US study finds.
Welcome to my new 10-part series on the most important exercises you will ever learn. Each week I will be showing you one new exercise that is crucial to your overall health and that you definitely should add to your regular routine.
We've all seen them: people glued to their phones at the gym - leaning over the cardio machines in order to catch up on their favourite Netflix drama, or drooling over the newest fitness porn clip from one of the fitness bloggers on YouTube and Instagram.
There's something about this time of year. It's the light. The stretch in the evenings. The temperature going up a couple of notches. There's an energy about it. It makes us frisky. I always feel a low level of suppressed excitement in March and April - like...
Why is it that some people slog away at the gym for years without any visible big differences in their physique while others seem to put on the trainers and achieve toned and taut abs almost overnight?
What a weekend! The sun was out, the clocks went forward and now that it's brighter in the evening, people are in great form.
