Joan Mcfadden Talks to the Man in Charge of the Highlands' Largest Leisure Centre ; Earning a Healthy Return

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Asurvey once found that people are so resistant to exercise they would come up with almost any excuse to avoid it, perhaps just stopping short of the one involving the dog eating their sneakers.

The study was carried out in Canada, but James Martin knows the response would have been similar in Scotland. As general manager with Inverness Leisure, a registered charity which runs the town's leisure centre on behalf of Highland Council, he sees it as his job to find ways of overcoming that reluctance.

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Joan Mcfadden Talks to the Man in Charge of the Highlands' Largest Leisure Centre ; Earning a Healthy Return

He says: "I was watching something on TV which made reference to a well-known fitness experiment called The Dog Ate My Sneakers, which was very funny but also quite depressing. It was looking at the reasons people give for not exercising and offeri...

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