http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sat, 25 May 2013 12:12:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/two-hours-of-sport-per-day-is-unrealistic-unless-you-attend-eton/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/two-hours-of-sport-per-day-is-unrealistic-unless-you-attend-eton/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:13:09 +0000 Cameron Corbett http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27337 Following the recent success at the Olympics, there has been a huge increase in the amount of rhetoric regarding the sporting future of the education system.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/two-hours-of-sport-per-day-is-unrealistic-unless-you-attend-eton/feed/ 45 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/for-some-children-pe-lessons-are-far-from-enjoyable/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/for-some-children-pe-lessons-are-far-from-enjoyable/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:03:42 +0000 Sophie Warnes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27281 At the height of Olympic fever, it’s all well and good to say that children should be doing more sport and that state schools should add more hours of PE into the curriculum, but I think we are overegging the pudding, here.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/for-some-children-pe-lessons-are-far-from-enjoyable/feed/ 100 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/05/barking-blondes-muttly-motivators-bewildering-walkers-and-playful-picnic-thieves/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/05/barking-blondes-muttly-motivators-bewildering-walkers-and-playful-picnic-thieves/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2012 03:00:55 +0000 Joanne Good and Anna Webb http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27109 It’s taken the might of the dog world to reveal just how much the Olympics have inspired us to get fit. The answer is, we’re afraid, it hasn’t.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/05/barking-blondes-muttly-motivators-bewildering-walkers-and-playful-picnic-thieves/feed/ 12 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/03/new-years-resolution-lose-weight-become-miserable/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/03/new-years-resolution-lose-weight-become-miserable/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:35:50 +0000 Ilona Burton http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7453 Working my way through about our third bag of chocolate eclairs since Santa came to visit, sitting for hours on my somehow extraordinarily magnetic beanbag, laptop open and TV blaring – pretty much heaven for a few hours each day before my boyfriend is back at work and I have to face oncoming exams, essays [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/03/new-years-resolution-lose-weight-become-miserable/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/16/ea-sports-active-2-get-fit-without-getting-laughed-at/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/16/ea-sports-active-2-get-fit-without-getting-laughed-at/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:46:20 +0000 Jack Riley http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7094 In the revelry of Christmas party season, getting fit comes somewhere between buying new sunglasses and cutting the lawn in the list of things furthest from most peoples’ minds. But come New Years resolution time, when the guilt of a thousand roast potatoes begins to set in, the first thing many people think to do [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/16/ea-sports-active-2-get-fit-without-getting-laughed-at/feed/ 0