This article gives rich evidence on key things to get right in managing homeworking. It also points to some of the benefits, notably in employees’ commitment. The research asks how homeworking practices relate to employees’ psychological contracts, which is to say, their expectations of the flexible working scheme and their employment relationship as a whole.… Read More
Casualty Evacuation Drills: British Army Diver Style
Would More Physical Education Reduce Youth Overweight?
Preface Given my post of last week about the role of exercise and weight loss, this is an interesting summation of a study by US researchers conducted almost 10 years ago! Article The prevalence of youth overweight has risen dramatically over the past three decades in the US and now represents an epidemic. Since 1970,… Read More
Fructose Rich Drinks & Risk of Obesity
If you feed fructose ad libitum to non-human primates, they get fatty livers within six weeks (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2013,doi:10.3945/ajcn.112.057331). The effect of fructose rich beverages on human adolescents is a lot harder to judge, given that you cannot cage teenagers and feed them a controlled diet – however much you may sometimes… Read More
The Determinants of Mortality
Robert Lucas once famously said regarding the determinants of economic growth, “once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think of anything else.” The same could be said for the determinants of mortality, since the length of life is as critical a measure of our well-being as is our income. In “The… Read More
Past Training Philosophies vs the Modern Battlefield
Research Paper Title Strength Training for the Warfighter. Abstract Optimising strength training for the warfighter is challenged by past training philosophies that no longer serve the modern warfighter facing the “anaerobic battlefield.” Training approaches for integration of strength with other needed physical capabilities have been shown to require a periodisation model that has the flexibility… Read More
Boot Camp & Military Fitness Institute 