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Thursday, October 22, 2015
20 Gift Ideas for Sports Fans
You can't buy a fan the title they crave, but cool stuff with their favorite team's logo on it is the next best thing.
The Best Stand-Out Smart Shoes
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“Smart casual” is not an excuse to throw on some Air Max and hope they magically match your chinos. Unless you’re 16, and it’s 1989, that's not cool. What is cool is picking shoes that make you stand out for all the right reasons. So when you want to be taken seriously, forget trainers and invest in some proper gentleman’s footwear.
Best for… Winning at Work
Clarks Newkirk Wing
An office shoe should mean business, and boy, does Clarks’s twist on a wingtip brogue do just that. The premium grained black leather upper oozes confidence while the meaty but extra lightweight sole will give you that bit of added height for a commanding presence in your meeting.
£74, clarks.co.uk
Best for…Wowing Her Parents
GH Bass Weejun Larson Penny Loafer
It’s imperative to make the right impression when meeting your girlfriend’s folks, and while you can’t prepare for the dog humping your leg or a violently snotty sneeze at the dinner table, you can at least wear a world’s-best-son-in-law shoe when doing it. These swanky wine-coloured loafers are sure to be a hit.
£125, ghbass-eu.com
Best for… Absolutely Anything
Dr Martens 3 Eye Lace Shoe
This autumn Dr Martens, the master of utilitarian footwear, has produced this sleek three-eyelet shoe with a chunky all-black sole to match the tidy upper. What does that mean? Well, it means it’s hard as nails. The simple aesthetic makes it easy to style with both jeans and more fancy attire – in fact, these Docs need not leave your feet all season.
£99, office.co.uk
Best for… Olympic-Level Pub Crawling
Padmore & Barnes M387 Willow
The Irish manufacturer spent two decades under the ownership of Clarks, when it made the classic Wallabee shoe. Now fully independent, it’s making some seriously nice gear – and this hand-stitched super-comfortable moccasin is no exception.
£125, endclothing.com
Best for… Attracting the Ladies
Visvim Deck Shoe
It’s said that women judge men by their shoes, so by that logic all the ladies at the club will assume you’re a yacht-owning cowboy taking a vacation from your oilfields to tear up the dance floor. Unfortunately, you do actually need to be an oligarch to afford them. We can but dream.
£70, mrporter.com
22 Oct 2015
Do Something: Take the Stairs
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Hands up if you struggle fitting in the gym amongst other things, namely work and having a life. Well here's your solution: stair running.
It may sound intense, but the benefits of climbing stairs are immense. The average 11-stone man blazes 1.5 times more calories running up stairs than jogging. Not surprising, seeing as you burn 0.15 calories each step you take up a staircase. Maybe it’s time you started taking that intimidatingly huge staircase instead of the easy-option lift...
Reap the benefits:
- It’s diverse: you can vary your workout by taking the longer steps on the outside to feel the burn in your legs or take shorter, more compact steps on the inside to focus on speed.
- It's time-efficient: you’ll feel your thighs burning after only 60-70 steps and your heart rate will rocket almost immediately.
- It’s great for exercise newbies: because it’s a low-impact activity, it’ll help keep your joints in tip-top condition.
- It burns more calories than jogging: 15 minutes of stair climbing is equivalent to around an hour of flat-level, steady-state running.
- It’ll keep aches and pains away: you’re unlikely to have any post-exercise muscle soreness – as long as you take the lift back down.
Give these a go if you think you’re ready for the big time
Stair running has become an international sport with 150 competitive events taking place each year in 25 countries. If you think you have outgrown the underground, maybe it’s time you took it up a notch.
- Tower Running UK started in 2013. Its website posts info about UK stair race, and links to the global site where you can sign up to become a registered athlete. Among other things, you will see the points accumulated from your stair races turned into a position on the global ranking system.
- Operation: SKYRACE takes place on 13th December at London's Heron Tower and is doubling up as the first UK Tower Running Championship Final. Other races in the series have already taken place at the Gherkin (September) and Emirates Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth (October).
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The 5 toughest staircases on the London underground
5. Goodge Street - 136 steps
Calories burned climbing them: 20
Coach’s best time: 43 secs (“At the top there’s a long, disheartening corridor just before the finish”).
4. Russell Square - 171 steps
Calories burned: 26
Coach’s best time: 47 secs
3. Belsize Park - 189 steps
Calories burned: 28
Coach’s best time: 51 secs
2. Covent Garden - 193 steps
Calories burned: 29
Coach’s best time: 54 secs
1. Hampstead- 320 steps
Calories burned: 48
Coach’s best time: 1min 39 secs
See more like this in Coach magazine. To find out where you can grab your free copy, click here.
21 Oct 2015
7 Things You Should Do Before Every Workout
Never dive into a workout cold, hungry, sore, or thirsty. Here are the seven things to do first.&nbs[...]
Back To The Future: What Would You Invent?
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We saw some pretty bold tech predictions in Back To The Future Part II, in which Marty McFly travels forward in time to 21st October 2015. And it turns out some of them were spot on.
- Marty got fired by video call. A crazy concept back in the 80s, yet today you’re now the weird one for not using Skype or Facetime.
- “Voice-activated roll-up TVs? That would actually be pretty cool,” is what you definitely thought while watching the film. And here we are in the future with smart controlled wallpaper TV. Nice one Japan.
- The film’s abundance of smartglasses was a fantasy reserved for the wildest technological dreams in 1985. In 2015 Google glasses have already been hyped up, arrived on the scene, and then unceremoniously ended up on the scrap heap.
And where they missed the mark, it was only by a small margin.
- While we can’t pay a cab fare with our thumbprint, we can pay with a smart phone app. Cashless taxis – who’d have thought? Doc Brown apparently.
- And with Nike not-so-ironically teasing the imminent release of its self-tying shoes, it would seem we’re well on the way to self-sizing clothes.
- As for hoverboards, if you've got a spare $10,000 (£6,475), you can buy one today. But for the rest of us, it will probably be another few years until we are hover-commuting to work.
So here’s where London thinks technology will be 30 years from now – no prediction too abstract for us.
The question is what do you think we’ll see in three decades’ time? Tweet us at #CoachEffect #BackToTheFuture with your ideas
21 Oct 2015
15 Leather Jackets to Buy Now
Whether you're a full-fledged biker, a weekend rider, or you'd never be caught dead on a Ducati, there's a look for everyone.
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