As a parent, seeing your children develop a passion for playing a sport (and maybe more than one!) and aspiring to follow in the footsteps of their favourite athletes, including those they might be watching compete...
There’s a bit of confusion and some myths doing the rounds about muscle – both what it is, and isn’t, and the role it plays in your health and wellbeing. Time to sort some facts from fiction. Muscle can’t turn into fat – and vice versa....
Walking 10,000 steps a day is what’s recommended as the minimum daily activity goal for a healthy adult. Over the course of a day, that equates to walking about 8km or for an hour and 40 minutes in total, although that can vary depending on...
Exercising with your partner is great – it’s an opportunity to spend quality time together, doing something that’s good for both of you. To make it work successfully, there are a few things to consider before you jump in, depending on your current lifestyle and...
These days, being short on time can be a major barrier for families, when it comes to adopting a healthier, more active lifestyle. Life’s busy and as a result, fitting fitness into a packed schedule of work and school as well as commitments to friends...
Having a reason to put on your trainers and head outside for a walk can make it more likely that you’ll, well, put on your trainers and head outside for a walk! And for a lot of people, a four-legged loved one pleading with big...
One of the tricks to maintaining your motivation to exercise regularly is understanding how it all works. When you start exercising and before it becomes a habit or routine part of your lifestyle, you’re primarily ‘extrinsically motivated’. This means that external rather than internal things...
It’s a common question and an area of some confusion for people who have been training for a while, and want to up the ante somehow, to keep improving their fitness. The fact is that both are important, because they both contribute to what’s called ‘progressive...
When you make the decision to increase your strength, it pays to have a few basic measures that you can use as benchmarks and to track your progress. Not only will it help you identify the areas you want to focus and improve on, keeping...
It’s no secret that sitting has been dubbed ‘the new smoking’ – and for good reason. Research shows that when we spend too much time sitting, our risk of everything from diabetes to heart disease and even premature death, climbs. Research also shows that this ‘increased...