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 […]
Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss
Intermittent Fasting for Weight loss Intermittent fasting has become an increasingly popular way to burn fat and improve overall health. The goal of intermittent fasting is to generally eat your food intake within a reduced timeframe. The major benefits of IF are 2-fold: To reduce calorie consumption overall and to trigger various positive hormonal and […]
Lose Weight in 6 Weeks and Keep It Off?
Lose Weight in 6 Weeks and Keep It Off Losing weight in a short period and keeping it off can be tough and remaining disciplined and resolute is a must in the process. Wondering if it is possible to lose weight in 6 weeks? With a combination of healthy eating, regular physical activity, and more […]
4 Important Tips for warming up Prior to Exercising!
Why to do an adequate warm up? The best way to warm up prior to participating in an exercise session, would be to engage in some form of traditional cardiovascular exercise for a few minutes and then we are good to train, right? Well not entirely true. Whilst doing some form of cardiovascular exercise to […]
