Hi, I’m Marcus. I grew up on a farm in New Zealand but these days I play professional tennis on the ATP World Tour. Once a month I’ll write about the challenges I face trying to optimise performance in a high-stress environment while travelling the world. Frequent air travel, jetlag, sleep, nutrition, rest, meditation – […]
Monthly Archives: February 2018
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…macro impact with micro changes So this month is all about renewing our resources, from choosing re-usable coffee cups, to becoming a more conscious recycler, from remembering to take shopping bags with you when you’re out doing the weekly run, to windowsill gardening and starting your own home compost. It seems at the minute like […]
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Feb
Feb
Mind your mane… No no, we’re not talking about looking after your lovely locks, there’s another blog for that around here somewhere. At the onset of 'World Alzheimer's Month', we are mostly concerning ourselves with helping you get the most from your grey matter – preserving it, helping it operate at peak efficiency, keeping it […]
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Feb
Feb
Bring it on! As months go, January is often seen as the worst. Like Mondays, it is usually dreaded and feared. Visions of anemic salads and dreary, damp days tied in with the post-party comedown. The harshness of reality, resolutions that were 100% reasonable on the 31st, now seem unrealistic and gloomy… the guilt sets […]
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Feb
Feb
With the onset of colder weather, more stress, escalating coffee habits (who needs a piping hot americano in mid July I mean really?!) and generally declining health routines, it's almost the season when urinary tract infections (UTIs) run rife. It will be a perfect storm for weakening those wee kidneys, ya know? Q: Where do we start? […]