Happy New Year to all and Welcome 2012. 

What a year in sport we've just witnessed - so many great sporting achievements, so little time to name them all. Probably a favourite would have to be Cadel Evans winning the Tour de France. 

And as the cricket season ushers in the New Year in Australian sport, there's always a sense of excitement and anticipation that comes with so much great sport ahead - the Sydney Test, the Australian Open Tennis, the Tour Down Under, not to mention the start of the AFL and NRL seasons.

It's a priviledge to be involved in health and fitness as a profession,  whether training people to get fit or conditioning young athletes to be the best they can be. If you’re involved in sport as a player, or support staff at any level, it provides the extremes of emotions, it gives us great joy and hope and it’s a great part of life. Enjoy every second of it, because it can be gone in an instant.

This has become all the more real for me in recent times due to the health of my great mate Ken - a keen sportsman in his youth and a lover of sport and life in general. 

This month is for you mate.

Jock