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The Savvy Scot

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Save Money and Improve Your Health by Cycling

By Pauline

Improve Your Health by Cycling

    We all remember what a joy bicycle riding was when we were children. Now, cycling to work and errands has become a necessity to save money. With gas, car maintenance, car finance and insurance prices skyrocketing, owning a car is becoming a luxury. Cycling provides not only huge savings advantages, but tremendous health… Read more

Filed Under: Fitness, Saving Money Tagged With: bicycle, Cycling, Health, Money, Save Money

5 Fitness Mistakes to Avoid

By savvyscot

5 Fitness Mistakes to Avoid

Summer is upon us and everyone is trying to showcase their beach body. We probably have an idea of what we want to look like on that beach and inevitably most of us fall short of coming anywhere close to what we envisage! I can’t help but snigger as I browse the fitness magazines at… Read more

Filed Under: Fitness Tagged With: 5 Fitness Mistakes, Fitness, Fitness errors, Gym Mistakes, Gym Mistakes to avoid

A Secret World – Diving Angelita and Calavera (Temple of Doom) Cenotes

By savvyscot

Temple of Doom) After diving the murky waters of Angelita, Calvera was a return to the crystal clear water of Grand Cenote and Casa Cenote. Temple of

Hola Amigos! A couple of days back I took you on a diving adventure into the Mayan underworld. Together we explored the caverns of Casa and Grand Cenote and the hidden wonders within. To avoid repeating myself, I am going to assume that you all know what a cenote is and understand that Mexico has… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Entertainment, Fitness, Self Development, Travel Tagged With: Angelita hydrogen cloud, angelita hydrogen sulphide, Calavera, Cenote Angelita, Cenote Diving, Cenote Temple of Doom, Diving, The temple of doom, Why is Calavera called the temple of doom

Combining Freelancing with Fitness

By savvyscot

Combining Freelancing with Fitness

Freelancing certainly has its upsides: flexible hours, flexible working methods and the right to choose where you work and when. It’s not only bloggers and graphic designers either; 21st century communications make it possible for administrative and secretarial roles to be performed remotely as well. Increasingly, companies are creating more and more home-based roles for… Read more

Filed Under: Fitness Tagged With: Freelancing, Freelancing with Fitness

Change Your Life Series – Step 2 Eat Healthily

By savvyscot

Eat Healthily

  Have you joined the cool kids as a subscriber of SavvyScot.com yet? ——–> Last week we started the Change Your Life Series; a series of ten blog posts that (if followed) will change your life – guaranteed! The first post was centered around Exercise. For the last seven days you have been slowly increasing… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Entertainment, Fitness, Gym, Self Development, Sport Tagged With: Change Your Life, change your life with eating, eat healthily, eat in moderation, how to change your life, importance of a clean diet, importance of eating healthily, make a change today, out of sight out of mind, reasons to be healthy, Steps to change your life, transform your life, ways to change your life, why should i eat cleanly?, why should i eat healthily

On Fitness and Life

By savvyscot

A lazy and overweight body creates a tired and heavy mind

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure As regular readers of this site will know I am a bit of a fitness fanatic. I want to draw your attention to a post that I wrote a few months back which summarises the Top Tips to Attain Your Workout Goals. If you… Read more

Filed Under: Fitness Tagged With: Does Exercise improve life, Exercise, Exercise makes you more productive, Fitness, fitness in corporate life, fitness target, How to set workout goals, Set fitness goals, ways to get fit

Mission Failed..

By savvyscot

Mission Failed..

If you read my last post ‘Sunday Update‘ you will know that I was supposed to be climbing mountains around the UK all this week. Unfortunately not everything went to plan.. Here is a quick recap of what happened: We departed Edinburgh at around 7am on Monday morning. This allowed us plenty of time to… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Charity, Fitness Tagged With: 3 Peaks Challenge, bad weather on mountains, Ben Nevis, Ben Nevis < 4 hours, Ben Nevis quick time, Climbing Ben Nevis, Mission Failed, Scafell Pike, Scafell Pike at night, Scafell Pike bad weather, Scafell Pike in the dark, time to climb Ben Nevis

Sunday Update

By savvyscot

Sunday Update

  Sunday Update Hello everybody. I write this post whilst at 30000ft, for today I am flying to Edinburgh. This week I will be taking part in a crazy 3 part challenge in an attempt to raise £1000 for charity. I’m supporting Shelter, a homeless charity that does some fantastic work in the UK. Myself… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Fitness Tagged With: Sunday, Sunday Update

SHHH Did you hear that?

By savvyscot

Hola! It has been a busy few weeks after returning from honeymoon. I haven’t stopped! I only just properly realised that taking vacation from work is very different from University / School holidays: School / Uni Holidays are holidays – you pick up where you left off on return Work never stops – and it… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Fitness, Updates Tagged With: Adsense, JP Morgan Race, Macpac Rapaki, North Face Diad, North Face Hedgehog, Outdoor Challenge, UK Walking, Walking

Lessons in Negotiation

By savvyscot

Lessons in Negotiation

As I mentioned on my last post, Mrs Scot and I decided to take out a contract at our local gym. With some successful experience in sales (through a part time job), I consider myself to be quite a good negotiator and my secret is to use a diverse range of tactics. I’ll start with an example. When holidaying… Read more

Filed Under: Fitness, Saving Money, Self Development Tagged With: Appealing to emotions, Background Research, Gym Costs, Gym Membership, Importance of maths, Membership Cost, Negotiation, Playing off the competition

My New Life

By savvyscot

My New Life

Hello! After being warned of how bad a drought we are in over the last few weeks, nature sure has made a point of proving a point. We have had SO much rain! Saying that, the sky is blue, the birds are singing and it is set to be a beautiful day! The weekend has… Read more

Filed Under: Fitness, Food, Gym, Music, Updates Tagged With: Billy Elliott, Chicago, Dilettante, EFR, Emergency First Response, Fitness Challenge, Gym, Joining a Gym, London Theatre, Mamma Mia, New House, New life, Other Great Things, PADI Rescue Diver, Phantom of the Opera, Photography, Satellite TV, Sky, Sweeney Todd, Toastmasters, TV

ParkatmyHouse / PetrolPrices / Fitness Challenge / Further Reading

By savvyscot

Fitness Challenge

Got a mix-match post today: First up, Mrs Scot and I went to Wembly Arena in London on Saturday night to a concert. One of my pet-hates is getting stuck in traffic, especially when it is expected. Therefore parking at the arena was out of the question – especially at a cost of £25 ($40)…. Read more

Filed Under: Fitness, Saving Money Tagged With: Fitness Challenge, Further Reading, Parking Spaces, Petrol Price Variation

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