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We are surrounded by advice that says we need to keep fit, keep our hearts healthy and our cholesterol count low - so much so, we sometimes overlook the fact there are times when we shouldn't be exercising at all.

1. When you're ill

Don't exercise when you're unwell, even if it is just a cold.

Exercise will put more strain on your immune system and prolong illness. This will result in you spending more time away from your fitness programme.

It's also a prime cause of other injuries because it is more difficult to concentrate on what you're doing if you're feeling ill.

I've seen someone faint while doing a step class with a high temperature, and get a black eye from hitting her neighbour's step.

2. When you haven't had enough recuperation time

Don't rush back to your normal exercise routine after you have been ill.

Starting to exercise too early is likely to lead to a re-emergence of your symptoms.

When you do decide to return to the gym, make sure you start your workout slowly and with care.

Even a week or so off your usual routine can make a difference. Ease yourself back into your programme by doing just 50 per cent of your normal workload and gradually building up.

3. When you're feeling wiped out and stressed

There will be days when you don't feel like going to the gym, but sometimes your body can be telling you to take a break.

It can do you a power of good to have a day off from your fitness programme.

Go home, have a healthy meal: don't mentally punish yourself for not going to the gym.

Remember: all-round fitness incorporates spiritual wellbeing. Even though exercise can give us that stress-lifting endorphin high, sometimes we just need to relax.

4. When you have an injury

Whatever your injury, make sure that it is thoroughly healed before you go back to training.

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Inside a man's mind...

As you may have noticed, men and women are very different. The physical differences are obvious but what about disparities in motivation, thinking processes, and emotional landscapes? Ever wonder what he's thinking? Perhaps you've asked yourself this question while feeling deeply confused or even intensely angry. This is a question women have been asking, and may continue to ask, for centuries.

Differences demand attention. In order to coexist, you need to understand one another and differences in your personalities must be bridged. On the other hand, if you knew all the contents of his head, life would eventually be pretty boring. These challenges become the foundation for a lasting and fulfilling love relationship.

What are your intentions? Why do you want to know? How are you asking? Are you shaking your head in amusement as he does something stupid? Men think about more than food and sex. They also think about work, getting ahead at work, sports and getting ahead at sports. They think about household bills and politics and art. The male mind is complexly simple whereas a woman is simply complex.

In general, men think in a directed way, often about one thing at a time, while women can cover many topics quickly and can see the larger picture. Men think like a missile, homing onto a target. Women

You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing.

I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others! When I absolutely must, I take the call, but I don't do a very good job of concealing my displeasure. A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge — out of fairness to goats.

So it was with profound relief that I embraced the arrival of e-mail and, later, texting. They meant a conversation I could control — utterly. I get to say exactly what I want exactly when I want to say it. It consumes no more time than I want it to and, to a much greater degree than is possible with a phone call, I get to decide if it takes place at all. That might make me misanthropic. It surely makes me a crank. But it doesn't make me unusual.

The telephone call is a dying institution. The number of text messages sent monthly in the U.S. exploded from 14 billion in 2000 to 188 billion in 2010, according to a Pew Institute survey, and the trend shows no signs of abating. Not all of that growth has come out of the hide of old-fashioned phoning, but it is clearly taking a bite — particularly among the young.

Americans ages 18-29 send and receive an average of nearly 88 text messages per day, compared to 17 phone calls. The numbers change as we get older, with the overall frequency of all communication declining, but even in the 65 and over group, daily texting

A lot of men often wonder why is it that certain women just seem to totally ignore them. They find themselves at a loss when it comes to attracting really gorgeous and intelligent women. They simply do not have a clue as to how to go about getting one of these exceptionally gorgeous women to go out with them or to even get their attention.

For starters, these gorgeous and intelligent women are for the most part attainable for any guy who is willing to step his game up. But the fact of the matter is that these guys are simply invisible to these kinds of women, and here are the main reasons why:

1. Most Guys Are Simply Boring

Most guys out there are simply just a carbon copy of another. In other words they are boring. Only remarkable products get bought on the market from big spenders, and only remarkable people get noticed by other remarkable people.

This is simple social science. If you want to attract a remarkable woman, then learn to become a remarkable kind of guy. Find ways to stand out in a crowd. Develop a style of your own, a way of speaking, a way of dressing, and a way of acting. It’s better to be different and misunderstood than to be accepted in a crowd of other boring people.

Make your life something remarkable.

ST. CHARLES, Ill.—At a recent tournament, Graig Kinzler hit a golf ball into a mountain on the 15th hole of a course called Tundra Peak. With $2,000 at stake, he crossed his arms and looked as if he wanted to punch somebody.

"Was I worried? Yeah, I was worried," Mr. Kinzler said between games—held not at a country club, but on the dark second floor of a bar. "How could I not be?"

Mr. Kinzler is a two-time world champion. (Source: The Wall Street Journal)Mr. Kinzler goes to a bar to play golf every day. That's his job. He is one of about two dozen men around the country, mostly in their 30s and 40s, who make their living playing Golden Tee, the most popular cash videogame in the U.S. In a typical month, he plays about 600 games, competing against 49 other players at a time for a top prize of $10. He says he earned more than $50,000 last year.

Mr. Kinzler is a two-time world champion. But like a lot of other Americans, he isn't feeling as secure as he used to. His earnings are down, the competition is stiffer and Mr. Kinzler—a bearded 33-year-old with a wife and nine-month-old son at home—fears losing his edge.

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"I worry I'm getting the yips," he said recently, referring to the anxiety that sometimes ruins golfers' games.

On a typical workday, Mr. Kinzler takes care of his son, Brady, until midafternoon, when a nanny comes to relieve him. His wife, Cortney, works as a sales rep for a vending-machine company.

Mr. Kinzler then rides his bike about a mile to Six Degrees, a bar in the Bucktown neighborhood of