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.
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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For personal trainer, Kirsty Welsh “Fitness was an unexpected calling”. Toni Krasicki explains… Originally, Kirsty Welsh was enrolled to study a Bachelor of Classical Performance in Music, until a light-bulb moment inspired her to choose health and wellness as her career path, with music being retained as a deep-seeded passion. “Initially, I had no intention
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Brad Sheppard BEd (PhysEd) is the co-founder of Create PT Wealth (www.ptbusinessbuildingbootcamp.com.au), which is Australia’s largest Business Coaching and Mentoring program for Personal Trainers. Brad has taught thousands of Personal Trainers Internationally the methods on how to become Multi Six-Figure Personal Trainers. He is also the co-author of the best-selling book A Personal Trainers Guide
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In fitness, adaptation produces strength. When changes are introduced, our bodies adapt, and we grow stronger. Now excuses are everywhere. We all have them – we’re too tired, we’re too busy, we don’t believe we’re capable of lifting more weight or increasing the speed. But when outside forces handed Jed McGiffin an excuse, he responded
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Blackmores reveals: Australian women handling stress better than men. However, across the nation we’re a bunch of stress heads! The results are in. Over 21,000 Australians have completed Blackmores Stress Quiz[i] and the results reveal as a nation we’re unquestionably stressed, with more than half of survey participants reporting that they are stressed. In the
Blackmores Study Rates Aussies as STRESSED! Read More »
During the last ten years, there has been a marked shift in attitude to using alternative modalities in healing and alleviating pain and/or illness. No longer pigeon holed as ‘something you do in Byron Bay’, Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Naturopathy and Homeopathy, have now virtually become mainstream. With an assortment of alternate therapies now available,
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Just been diagnosed with coeliac disease – or simply gluten intolerant? Either way, no matter how hard you try to cut gluten from your life, chances are that just like an embarrassing high-school photo it keeps finding a way to creep back in. The result may be abdominal pain, bloating, tiredness, headaches or poor concentration
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It is Australia’s biggest killer, causing more deaths each year than all cancers combined and with insufficient physical activity, alcohol consumption and obesity on the rise the outlook is anything but hearty. Heart disease kills four times more women than breast cancer and three times as many men as prostate cancer. That is why this
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