Food and Exercise – Get your thinking and your actions on the right track otherwise these will hinder rather than help you lose weight. Fat loss happens when you ditch the scale, start to exercises effectively and when you see food as fuel instead of something to feed your emotions or occupy your time. […]
Scoliosis is the side-way curvature of the spine (click here to learn more about Scoliosis). When I was 9, I was walking home from school and twisted my ankle. My mother took me to see my GP to make sure that I was OK. Little did I know that my ankle held the key […]
Type 2 diabetes is usefully described as a “lifestyle disease” because it most commonly affects those who are overweight and inactive. It can also occur in those who have poor diets. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the cells in your body don’t respond to insulin (a sugar-lowering substance) properly or the pancreas produces insufficient levels […]
Are you 45-ish and either anxious about not getting enough exercise, or frantically worried about doing the right type of exercise, to help you age with grace. It has been confirmed that strength training can assist in reducing the risk of Sarcopenia, type-2 diabetes, osteoporosis, iron-deficiency anaemia, and arthritis. This ticks the box for both […]
As someone balancing a 2-year-old daughter, expecting my second in August and running my own business, I should have been more prepared for the oncoming stress. The only thing that helped my body, pregnancy and injury related pain has been my slow movement, high intensity, resistance training sessions (I do 25 minutes once a week). […]
Last Friday I had an appointment and needed a new pair of jeans. I dropped into 5th Ave on Ponsonby Road and grabbed a pair, my usual size, and rushed off home to change. I put the jeans on and they felt a bit loose but I thought nothing of it and carried on my […]
Incorporating recovery time into any training program is important because this is the time the body uses to adapt to the stress of exercise, and the real positive effect of the training happens. Recovery also allows the body to replenish energy stores, optimise protein synthesis (the process of increasing the protein content of muscle cells, […]
1. Your Body needs downtime: It turns out that one of the best things you can do for your next athletic ambition is to take some downtime and try something completely different. “Just exercise when and if you feel like it,” says Joe Friel, author of The Triathlete’s Training Bible. “And do whatever you want […]
*I am thankful for the way my body is bouncing back post-baby. But the thing is, it takes some work…..before, during and after pregnancy. My story involves a fractured back, whiplash injury from 2 car accident and later on a brain operation. I have had to learn the hard way what is good and not […]
The perception that osteoporosis only affects some post-menopausal women is far from the truth. Studies have shown it can start occurring as early as age 25 in both men and women. Osteoporosis means “porous bones” and is characterised by loss of bone density. What happens? The interior of our bones have a honey comb structure […]
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