Sporty
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Sporty is your guide to the powerful place of sport and fitness in Australia's cultural life. Recognizing it's much more than a game, Sporty charts and analyses big-time spectator sports celebrates the amateur athlete and encourages anyone struggling to get active. You don't have to get sport, to get Sporty!
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7M ago
Can you change how you think about pain, and therefore your experience of it? In this series, four very different people are each trying to take control of what they can in their lives. So far it's been exercise, diet and sleep. Now, it's pain ..read more
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7M ago
There's an awful lot that can keep you awake at night. In this series, four very different people are each trying to take control of what they can in their lives. So far it's been exercise, and diet. Now they discuss their difficulties with sleep - and what sends them into the arms of Morpheus ..read more
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7M ago
Life is full of slings and arrows that are outside of your control. So what about the things that are within your power, to make you feel better? This time the focus is on what you eat and drink. Four people each on a quest to take control of this share their experiences and insights ..read more
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7M ago
Life is full of things that are beyond your control. You lose your job. A relationship ends. Someone dies. Or indeed, there's a global pandemic. So what about the things that are within your power, that can make you feel better? This special series over four weeks in turn focuses on diet, sleep, pain, and in this episode - exercise. They're the controllables ..read more
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7M ago
Summers of long ago are evoked by old abandoned crumbling cricket pitches. Meet a sports lover whose mission is to find and photograph them ..read more
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7M ago
We're dreaming of a white Christmas here on Sporty, with Australian Winter Olympians, past and prospective ..read more
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7M ago
Formula E, Extreme E and eSkootr are all new forms of electric vehicle racing. They're pushing the high octane motor racing industry to environmental responsibility. But how can you be a petrol head when there’s no petrol ..read more
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7M ago
Back in 1978, a couple of thousand runners lined up to compete in the first-ever Melbourne Marathon. Among them, 5 young men - who've run every single one of those marathons ever since. They're now well into their 60s and 70s, and about to do it all over again. So what's compelled them to keep going? And why are more and more ordinary people drawn to competing in endurance events ..read more
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7M ago
Why do some people sweat a lot, others a little? If you sweat so much that you have trouble holding a tennis racket or weights, are there safe and successful treatments ..read more
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7M ago
Olympic gold medallists Cate Campbell and Bronte Campbell have competed against each other their whole lives. Surely there's massive sibling rivalry between them? When you exercise do you sweat a lot, or hardly at all? Why are there such differences from one person to another? And how can the chemical composition of your sweat be used to monitor your training load and athletic performance ..read more