#exercise clinic

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@fatgirlgetsfitatlast tagged me to SDS today so here’s selfie from work. My clients are always asking how far I rode at the weekend and this morning I was able to produce a medal commemorating yesterday’s hot and hilly 146km.

Tagging @shufflingalong @runningmyownrace @emilydoesscience @eugeneslost @this-incredible-journey if you want to play along.

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Scarves in February! What next? 10 February 2017 Wet wet wet across the state of Western Australia, which is appropriate for the North-West (being the wet season), but here in the South-West it’s supposed to be hot and dry! Not only that, while the Eastern Seaboard is bracing for a scorching weekend, we’re donning scarves and jackets! Madness!

Certainly my visitors to the exercise clinic were in shock (especially those from tropical Singapore).

The Exercise Medicine Research Institute’s Exercise Clinic at Genesis Cancer Care, which I run, has been hosting professional visitors this week; from Singapore Health, as well as Eastern States Genesis representatives. All were observing exercise as medicine in action with a view to introducing new exercise cancer treatment programs. I put on a bonus session today and watching my clients through the eyes of others reinforces how awesome they are, and how great it is for them to have this opportunity. (And you should have heard the lads singing my praises. So sweet.) #lovemywork

My traps and delts were protesting yesterday’s workout but I had today down for stretching anyway, given I had to work and it was teeming with rain. In the evening The Husb and I high-tailed it to Park & Vine for happy hour, where we were joined by The Girl and her BF, grazed share plates and watched a full moon rising.

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Everything Looks Blue In This Post… 9 February 2017 …And that’s because it’s COLD! February is supposed to be hot & dry. The entire state of Western Australia (which btw would smother most of Europe) is raining. This is crazy because while it is the wet season in the north, it is supposed to be the hottest & driest month in the south (it really is like a different country). All kinds of rainfall records are being broken. Here in Perth we’ve had our coldest February day on record - 15°C at lunchtime is WINTER. It didn’t even make the forecast high of 19°C. We don’t like it.

I worked out in the morning with an intense Thai-X-Fit class. Indoors but working up a wet-hair sweat.

At work I had the director of the Singapore Cancer Society, oncologist Dr Ong (right), visit the exercise clinic to observe what I was doing. He was a really interested dynamic guy. My colleague and former lecturer came over too - another totally decent and committed person. I love my work. I love how the field attracts some great people. The exercise prescription is still very new for many.

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It’s a wrap! 16 March 2016: 2245 Today’s filming was full of laughs and camaraderie as we wrapped up footage in the exercise clinic I run for people undergoing cancer therapies. The ABC science show Catalyst is producing a documentary on exercise as medicine and my star clients put in a huge effort for the cameras. I was so proud of them.