Weight Training: Why Everyone Should Lift
Weight training has many benefits including: Increasing overall strength. Weight training improves a person’s ability to perform taxing physical tasks as well as normal, everyday activities—like bringing in the groceries […]
Are You One of These Types of People? Discover How a Career in Fitness Complements Your Psychological Traits and Offers Growth Opportunities
If you identify with any of these five character types and their psychological traits, a fulfilling career in the fitness industry might be just the right fit for you. Let’s dive into each of these personalities and explore how the fitness profession aligns with their strengths and offers growth opportunities for personal development.
What is Recovery?
What is recovery? Recovery is one of the most underrated aspects of a fitness journey, sport training or everyday life.
Breaking Unhealthy Habits
Habit: usual way of behaviour or a tendency that someone has settled into.
Whether it’s our morning routine or our night time bed routine that we can’t go to bed until all steps are followed, habits are regular activities done in the same place, same time and with the same people. We are all creatures of habit.
How exercise can reduce pain
When we are in pain sometimes movement or exercise is the last thing we want to do, however exercise and movement are some of the fundamental aspects in management for persistent pain.
Exercise has been proven to improve post surgery recovery, or any recovery for that matter, reduce side effects for conditions such as diabetes, cancer, heart attacks, and some neurological conditions.
As exercise can improve function, wellbeing and pain levels.
Why Do we Always Forget about Preventive Health?
What were the major party’s preventative health strategies? An internet search comes up with nothing. They were non-existent. We know that prevention is better than cure. Data, research, and history have continually shown a four-fold return on investment to the health budget. We know that exercise improves physical and mental health.
Fitness Boxing Illustrated
Everybody wants a great body, but where do you start? You might have tried the latest diet or exercise fad and lasted maybe a month. There’s so much misinformation about how to get a lean and tight body that you’re ready to give up. Don’t give up. Fitness boxing might be the last exercise program that you’ll ever need.
Tapering
Tapering : What do mangoes and tapering for competition have in common? I don’t think there is anything better than a ripe mango. Sweet, juicy, summer vibes. You need to […]
Endurance Training Jargon
Fundamental Concepts in Physiology Relevant to Endurance Training. To understand endurance training it is important to have an understanding of some basic physiological concepts. Five of these principles are: VO2 […]
Chris Wardlaw’s 12 Training Principles for Runners
Chris Wardlaw – dual Olympian and distance coach uses 12 Basic Principles as a checklist for any training program from 800m through to a Marathon. It is always worth checking […]
