Fitness blog
Runkeeper app brings innovation and minor glitches – Runner’s Week: Day 2
Choosing an Apple Watch running app can prove exhausting. So let Cult of Mac Runner's Week help get you off the starting blocks. Every day this week, I'll review a different running app for Apple Watch. Yesterday I reviewed Nike+ Run Club. Today, it's Runkeeper's...
Which Apple Watch running app deserves to log your sweaty miles? – Runner’s Week: Day 1
It takes a lot of effort to go running with Apple Watch, and not just because it gets you all sweaty. The hard work starts before you even put on your running shoes. Simply choosing which running app to use is an exhausting task. Even if you don’t install any of the...
It’s time for Apple Watch to get serious about fitness
Apple puts fitness front and center in its advertising for Apple Watch Series 2, even going so far as to claim the device is a “superior sports watch.” But in reality, it is not a sports watch at all. It’s a smartwatch. And that’s a massively important distinction....
Why Apple should make a cheap activity band
The Activity app is one of Apple’s most important and powerful products. Its three brightly colored rings are changing people’s lives around the world, inspiring individuals to make healthier choices throughout their day. The trouble is, if you want to use the...
How our words shape our experience, and why diets don’t work
Have you ever noticed how the words you use to describe an experience eventually replace your actual memories of that experience? For example, I ran the New York Marathon last year. When I got back home, people asked me how it was, so I described it to them. After I...
The skin I live in: a 7 year journey
As my latest round of cancer treatment is coming to an end, it has prompted me to reflect upon the mind-body journey I’ve been on. I’d had rashes all over my body for many years, without realising I had cancer. But in 2007, I found a big lump in my groin, went to the...
My cancer story
“We are the lucky ones” Twelve years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare form of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. After lots of tests and surgery, I was prescribed chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Fortunately, I responded so well to the chemo, that it turned out the radiotherapy...
My Cancer Story
When I was diagnosed with Stage IV Lymphoma over ten years ago, it changed my life for the better. This is my story. More
My app: Reps & Sets
I designed and co-created a bodybuilding app for iPhone called Reps & Sets. It’s been featured by Apple on the App Store. More