How Often Should You Exercise?
Exercise Guidelines and Recommendations So ‘How often Should You Exercise?’. Whilst it does largely depends on what your goals are – there are some guidelines that are recommended to maintain your health well into your later years. The most important recommendation is that both resistance and cardio training are to be included in our weekly […]
Protein Requirements for Over 50s: A Complete Breakdown
Protein Requirements Over 50s: A Complete Breakdown In this article we will talk about some of the misconceptions around dietary protein and help you to gain greater clarity on protein requirements for over 50s. Each section will provide some helpful tips around protein related topics for the purpose of understanding your daily requirements. What is […]
Exercise Consistency and Proven Strategies to Maintain it
Exercise Consistency and Proven Strategies to Maintain it In the world of health & fitness, the golden ticket to success is exercise consistency. However, life sometimes gets in the way and it does its best to make us fall off the rails. To help with these challenges we discuss some proven strategies to maintain exercise […]
Healthy Habits: A Revolutionary Way to Set and Achieve Goals
Healthy Habits: A Revolutionary Way to Set and Achieve Goals Are you wanting to create some healthy habits for the new year? Has the challenge of goal setting ever left you a little disappointed with yourself come mid -year? Or sometimes even sooner? This year I’ve decided to try a revolutionary way to set and […]
The Key to Aging Gracefully: Why Mobility and Flexibility Training is Crucial
The Key to Aging Gracefully: Why Mobility and Flexibility Training is Crucial You may have wondered why mobility and flexibility training is so crucial, and how this important pillar of fitness contributes to healthy aging. I am sure we have all seen someone at a gym, a health club or even in a park or […]
How Can Improve My Balance?
How Can I Improve My Balance? Improving your balance is not only beneficial to help reduce your chance of a fall, it can also spice up your salsa dancing, improve your tennis game, make gardening more enjoyable and make picking up a small child a lot easier. If this resonates with you, you are probably […]
Winter Joint Pain? Unraveling the Mystery
So what causes winter joint pain? Unraveling the mystery isn’t easy but we have outlined a few tips and tricks to help you out. Understanding the winter ache during the colder months is an important part of feeling your best year-round. We sometimes feel as though our body is completely locked up and our joints […]
When is the best time to exercise?
When it comes to incorporating exercise into your daily life, finding the best time to train can be quite a challenge. Recently I had someone ask me, “what is the best time to exercise?” It isn’t as a simple answer as ‘morning is best’ or ‘afternoon is best’, it depends on several factors. Personally I’m […]
Does Weight Training Burn Fat?
Does Weight Training Burn Fat? As you are all training hard, eating healthy, getting stronger, fitter, and healthier, I’ve decided to bring up an age-old debate on whether or not weight/strength training is good for fat loss. In other words, does weight training burn fat? And the answer is a definitive YES!!! So there you […]
Do I need to Count Calories to Lose Weight?
Do I Need to Count Calories to Lose Weight? Calories are a measure of the amount of energy in the food we consume. So you’re probably thinking “do I need to count calories to lose weight?”. If your goals are to lose weight (well to lose body fat) understanding how many calories you consume is […]
