Basketball for dummies: Training with the London Lions

The London Lions play the University of Iowa. Picture: LLDC I think it’s fair to say that, at 5ft 2ins, basketball is not the game for me. Still, here I am at the Copper Box, home to the London Lions, about to embark on a training session with the team. Every player towers over me,…

Fitness review: Tabata

Four minutes. That’s all it takes for every muscle in my body to be screaming at me to just lie on the floor and stop moving.Luckily, this is a tabata class, and four minutes of intense exercise is all I have to do.Tabata is named after Japanese scientist Professor Izumi Tabata (recognized as the ‘father’…