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The Top 5 Pros and Cons of Wearable Fitness Trackers

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Considered one of the leading wearable technologies, fitness trackers are used to improve your health, exercise more, and sleep better. By using exercise watches, you can monitor and record your heart rate, become aware of your peak activity period, see distance covered, and record how many calories you burn in a day. Fitness trackers are … Read more

Best Advice When Walking for Weight Loss

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The beauty of walking for weight loss is that it is so accessible. It is an all-ages activity because of its low impact on the body, no special training or equipment is required, it can be done almost anywhere, and it costs nothing. Brilliant! However, while all of this makes walking sound like an easy … Read more

Benefits Of Exercise Beyond Physical Fitness

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Exercise improves your physical health, increases your stamina, and provides a general sense of wellbeing – none of this is a foreign concept or up for debate. Physical fitness drives so many of us to workout because we want to lose weight, build lean muscle, look good or achieve a fitness goal, such as performing … Read more

Best Home Workout Routine

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Working out at home has many advantages: it’s convenient, there’s no anxiety, you don’t have to look the part or have professional equipment, plus it’s free. That said, you need to work out why you’re working out. The exercise routine you complete needs to achieve your goals. Finding the time, effort, and momentum to exercise … Read more

Achieve Your Health and Fitness Goals

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Trigger Warning! Truth Bombs Ahead. Do you want to get off the fit/fat merry-go-round? Why does your willpower go MIA? Are you tired of feeling tired all the time? If energy creates energy, conversely lethargy is going to create lethargy. Do you have a chorus of annoying little aches and pains creeping into your body, … Read more

Everything you need to know about HIIT Training

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If you’ve ever typed ‘how to lose body fat’ into a search engine, one of the first things you’ll notice that comes up is the acronym HIIT – High-Intensity Interval Training. Losing weight, or more specifically body fat, is one of the main reasons every day people frequent the gym and while HIIT is not … Read more

Benefits of Boxing Fitness are Within Reach

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Whenever we mention boxing fitness to a client you can see the reaction on their face, they instinctively think it’s going to involve taking punches to the body like a Rocky vs Drago classic. The truth is boxing has made its way into most gyms as a great way to improve many aspects of your … Read more

Muscle Strength and Endurance

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Muscle Strength versus Muscle Endurance Muscular strength and muscular endurance are important indicators for longevity and quality of life. Putting the work in now is truly beneficial and will set you up with a solid foundation as you move through life. Muscular strength is a muscle’s ability to create force to move an object or … Read more

The Truth About Weight loss Diets

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If losing weight was easy everyone would fit their ideal weight. In 2017 in Australia 67% of people were either overweight or obese. Even with the millions of weight loss diets available to us year on year our weight has gradually increased. Since the mid 90’s with the introduction of the internet we have had … Read more

Regress To Progress – Doing The Basics Well To Master The Gym.

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If you are in the gym, let me firstly say well done because the very fact you are in there shows you are committed to your health and fitness which is my motivation to help you make sure not only you achieve that health and fitness goal but you do it safely without increasing your … Read more