Articles and posts in the Health & Fitness category cover general fitness content which can include areas such fitness training exercises and fitness training methods; an example might be altitude training or pre and post natal exercise or strength and conditioning training. Industry news, fitness equipment relevant to general health, fitness and wellbeing, mobile training apps, fitness competitions, fitness trends and studies are also covered here.
Nic Monteforte shares her top tips to help you identify the right fitness people for your vacancy – every time! After years of recruiting are you still scratching your head wondering what it is that makes a great team member for your gym? Have you done heaps of interviews where you found yourself thinking, “Wow […]
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Celeste Kirby-Brown explains how member surveys can help take your business success to new levels. In 2006 I attended the annual Fitness New Zealand conference. I was at the Auckland event sitting between Justin Tamsett, Professional Trainer and Coach, and Reece Zondag, CEO Les Mills. We were listening to Richard Beddie CEO of Fitness New
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As a dietitian there are a number of questions that you get asked all the time. Do eggs increase cholesterol? What is the best type of alcohol to drink? Which is better, butter or margarine? And more recently a new range of commonly asked questions relating to lower carb, Paleo and clean eating regimes. So
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Brad Sheppard reveals the secrets to successfully distinguishing your PT business from all the others. I’d like to show you what you can do to start charging what you’re worth, which I suspect is a lot more than what you’re charging now! But before we get started, there’s one concern that almost every personal trainer
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According to Brad Sheppard (personaltrainerbusinesssystems.com) there are 15,000 new personal trainers graduating across the country ever year. Interestingly, each of these graduates has their own story that led them to the decision to take their interest in fitness to the next level. Toni Krasicki spoke to four PTs to find out what led them to
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You may spend a lot of time on your physical flexibility, but emotional flexibility is just as crucial in order to live a healthy, well-rounded life. Margie Warrell explains. When I went to the Australian Open this year, I found it inspiring to see top seeded players like Victoria Azaranka and Andy Murray move about
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For anyone who was a fan of Seinfeld in the 1990s, you will remember a particularly funny episode when Elaine formed an addiction to the latest healthy food craze, a ‘fat free’ frozen yoghurt. Despite the yoghurts claims, Elaine continues to gain weight as she indulges in tasty treat and decides to send a sample
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I’ve been a magazine editor for over ten years now. And during that time, the volume of information I receive from people vying to make themselves or their products known to me is nothing short of enormous. Every day I receive media releases telling me about the latest and greatest products, services, research findings and
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Do you train in one, two or three planes? For too long, getting fit has meant picking an activity you like and then doing it over… and over… and over again, without paying much attention to variety or training the body evenly. The human body is made to travel through three planes of motion and
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Twenty-nine-year-old Marcia could honestly say that her one passion in life was health and fitness. Each and every day, she would rise at 4:45am to put herself through a gruelling gym session, an exercise regime that she found help her keep her weight at a lean 57kg. When her demanding job finished each day, Marcia
Orthorexia: Are you taking healthy eating too far? Read More »
This year, we see Facebook celebrate their 10th birthday. A platform designed for people to find out what their friends are reading, wearing, doing, eating, listening to, their values, where they are going and more! And yet fitness centres, gyms, health clubs and personal trainers seek to use the platform to sell their services, Justin
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you will have heard of the game-changing Google Glass that was unveiled last year. One of the coolest technologies to hit the scene, the sci-fi looking specs that are collecting apps by the minute is about to be launched in 2014. The Glass is basically a head
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