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Want to brighten up your breakfasts? Here's a simple and easy one straight out of the Basecamp Kitchen! You don't have to eat it in a bowl - if you're...

25 July, 2017 /

Here's a simple and easy recipe for a healthy snack that is free of processed sugars and has the Joe's Basecamp tick of approval! (Warning: these are absolutely delicious and aren't...

28 June, 2017 /

Bone broth is the new kale!  It's everywhere at the moment.  Here at the Basecamp we love it. Long used for its holistic, therapeutic and gut healing properties, bone broth is...

05 April, 2017 /
People have been asking me what I do to keep myself on track, So I thought I'd do a bit of a breakdown of what I'm up to at the moment, motivation, learning and training wise. So here we go
04 April, 2016 /
Like many people who exercise often, I get asked ‘what are you training for?’. I think it’s normal for people to expect a single short answer - “Doing the half marathon in a few weeks” or “I’m off on a trek” but often there isn’t a specific event in mind. This got me thinking to all the reasons I train - and I say train rather than exercise because for me training is much broader than simple exercise. I’ve been a casual runner for about 15 years and I love my running but training for me means something bigger, it means doing exercises that I wouldn’t normally do, exercises I don’t necessarily enjoy or that I’m not very good at. It’s precisely by training those uncomfortable areas that I get the best results. So in a nutshell what am I training for? I’ll answer that at the end. Except for the first two, these in no particular order are the reasons I train:
22 September, 2014 /
Imagine you are a bicycle, wheels, frame and all. Now you need to travel from A to B. The points A and B can be many things. A could be unfit, B could be fit. A could be overweight or obese, and B could be trim and athletic. A could be birth, B could be death (hopefully these two are a suitable distance apart). What will happen to your bicycle if there is a buckle in the wheel? How far will you get? What are all the possibilities?
26 March, 2011 /