Personal Training v Group Fitness
One of the most popular features of a great gym is great group fitness classes. Group fitness has many positive features for gym users. A good group fitness instructor …
Sleep is the most effective medicine
Sleep is the cheapest, most effective form of medicine. However, there is an optimal amount…. too little leaves you lethargic and too much also leaves you feeling lethargic! The …
What is Visceral Fat? (and How to Lose It)
Have you ever thought, how can one be so skinny and yet have such a large stomach? In this post we will cover what Visceral fat is, it’s dangers, …
Sugar – How much is too much ?
Most of us enjoy the sweet stuff; we are actually biologically driven to look for it. When we were back in our hunting and gathering days, food with a …
Muscle & Strength Training
The Basic definition of strength training is the maximal amount of force a muscle or muscle group can generate in a specific movement pattern at a specific speed of …
Curb Carb Cravings
Carbohydrates or “carbs” are an important dietary requirement for long term good health. The problem is that the modern western diet tends to include too much of the wrong …
Winter is here – Seasonal Disorder
It’s getting close to that time of year where most of us want to sleep more, put on a bit of weight (winter coat), and start feeling more attracted …
Improve your Breathing and Health
A large number of body issues stem from both poor postural habits and incorrect breathing patterns. If you sit at a desk all day with your back shaped like …
Over Training
How do you think about “Over training”? While we think of over training as being only sports or training related, other lifestyle factors contribute to the cause. Increased work, …
3 Questions to ask yourself when choosing a meal
So it is lunch time and you are trying to decide what to eat. Maybe you just have a hankering for hot chips. You begin to have that should …
A calorie is a calorie, right?
I hear this all the time; it is all about balancing calories in/out, just a numbers game. This is simply not true. Food is information, it sends various messages around your body switching genes of and on off.
Why your health and weight loss goals are likely to fail!
Sorry if that is a really depressing title but unfortunately it is true, most of our attempts to change our health/weight, especially New Year’s Resolutions fail. I have decided to write about why this happens, to help you break the cycle.
