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Why Everyone Should Strength Train
What is Strength Training?
If you think strength training requires lugging around dumbbells, kettlebells and barbells only, think again. Any movement that challenges your muscles to work at a significantly higher capacity than their baseline (including simple...
Walking...Anyone can do it, without any specific level of fitness.
The benefits in a 'sat down most of the time' world are also significant.
Walking increases your fitness ♥ without major exertion or risk of injury as well as improving your mental wellbeing and mindset .
So What's the Deal...
A Drop in the Ocean - The Benefits of Water
The human body, which is made up of between 55 and 75 percent water (lean people have more water in their bodies because muscle holds more water than fat), is in need of constant water replenishment.
Your lungs expel between two and four cups of...
Mental fitness is even more important than physical fitness, if we’re not in the right frame of mind, everything else goes out of the window. We live in a highly stressed, always on environment where the strains of a busy job, family and social schedule mean that if we’re not mindful,...
A calorie deficit is the only way we can lose weight.
In theory we just eat less and we should lose weight essentially without doing anything (i.e. no exercise) and we all know it’s easier to do nothing than something, right?...or is it?
Let’s look at the realities of a calorie...
Creating a healthy routine is easier than you think
There are lots of ways to make working out part of your weekly schedule.
Whether you’re just starting out or already on your fitness journey and need to boost your routine, there are steps you can take to help make exercise a regular...
“Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread...
The topic of sleep gets most people nodding off, if only I meant that literally, as for many people the thought of a regular 7 hours or more of restful sleep would be a dream.
As a health & fitness professional I’d place sleep higher up the list of...
For many people, 7 hours of restful sleep feels like a dream. And for some, it feels like a waste of time. Because why sleep when there are problems to solve and things to do?
As a health & fitness professional, I think sleep is more important to your overall wellness than how much you...
With so much information out there, it’s hard to keep up with professional and qualified advice. You can find yourself in a crossfire of opposing opinions.
Yet, despite all the back and forth opinions, here are 13 health and wellness tips that can supercharge your wellness journey.
- Put...
“Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread...
Weight Loss or Fat Loss?
Change the word to change your thinking and approach.
Don’t become obsessed with the scales as they don’t always tell the full story.
We often use a specific number (on the scales) as our health and fitness goal and beat ourselves up about it when it...
