I suppose I should come clean and say that exercise and I have not been the closest of friends in the past. I like watching some team games (cricket mostly), but I have never much liked playing them, and running has always conjoured up unpleasant memories of cross-country runs at school.
However, a couple of months ago I went to the doctor about some trivial problem, and while I was there he took my blood pressure. It was seriously high, and after a series of tests for various things like diabetes, high colesterol and so on, it seemed it was likely to be down to nothing more than generally low cardiovascular fitness and possibly stress.
So there I was, a 43 year old couch potato with hypertension and a doctor suggesting I needed to go onto blood pressure reducing drugs. Not something I was prepared to do, at least not without trying some alternatives first.
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