3 “Put down the bloody fork, mate.” Even by blunt Aussie standards, number three is an inspirational aphorism of rare vividness. 2 Getting in better shape is easier than you think – just do a little and often. It’s not too late to get into better shape, even if you’re a desk worker rather than a natural athlete. My posture is improved and I am able in minutes to rid myself of the everyday aches and pains that are seemingly unavoidable once you get past 50. After two sessions and an hour listening to him, his methods and maxims have stuck with me in a way no other exercise guru has managed.Īfter a month, I am almost a stone lighter, feeling better and moving better. Like every successful politician, though, Higgo is all about simplicity of message and presentation. As many Telegraph readers pointed out when my colleague Mark Bailey interviewed him earlier this year, the stuff he teaches is no big secret. Higgins – Higgo to the celebrity classes – is a classic laid-back Aussie and therein may lie his popularity and success. He helped David Harbour, husband of singer Lily Allen, lose a spectacular 80 pounds to play an emaciated prisoner in Stranger Things. Accordingly, A-listers like Samuel L Jackson, Colin Firth, Margot Robbie and Claudia Schiffer are fans of the Higgins methods. At the same time he’s so nice and non-judgmental that you’re happy to do as you’re told. He simplifies attaining a “Hollywood body”, as he calls the ideal shape for someone who’s not an actual athlete. It’s evident within five minutes in the company of David Higgins, an easy-going 39-year-old Australian, how he has got stars fighting for the privilege of paying him huge sums to train them up. I write, I should say, as one of the porky community, so I think I have a licence to offend myself.īut I’ve finally met a man to give me, and the rest of us who need to lose a couple of stone, hope of doing so, and also “getting into shape” – meaning a shape other than the one we already have. More than 50 years later, despite two thirds of the adult population being overweight or obese, it’s still taboo to say someone is too fat. As early as 1970, for example, long before we started being kind and “inclusive” to some of the more niche groups in society, the Billy Bunter children’s books – comedies about a corpulent, greedy public schoolboy – started being banned from public libraries for making fun of overweight children. "We're here today because Facebook has shown us once again that it is incapable of holding itself accountable," Blumenthal said in his opening remarks last week.It’s strange but true that among the earliest beneficiaries of political correctness were fatties. The Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security convened the hearing in the wake of a Wall Street Journal investigation citing Facebook's own internal research, allegedly leaked by a whistleblower, that found Instagram adversely impacted mental health issues in teens, especially girls. Sorry for the inconvenience."įacebook's safety head was questioned by lawmakers last Thursday over what the company knew about the potential for Instagram to be harmful to young users' mental health. "We are aware that there is an ongoing issue impacting our service. "Major disruptions: Platform Status," it read.
On Monday afternoon, the Facebook status page came back online with a message for users.
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