Speed Up Your Weight Loss – Use Your Competitive Instinct To Hit Your Goals Faster!

Healthy Competition could be just that – Healthy! Build a competitive element into your Fitness Plan or Program and right into each of your Workout Routines and you’re more likely to get faster results than simply drifting along and ‘going through the motions’.
We tend to think that fitness and health is primarily a physical matter.  [...]

Tame the Travel! How to Keep Up Your Fitness Program Whilst Travelling

Most of us have to travel with our jobs these days and so knowing how to keep up your fitness program whilst travelling can be a real challenge. Airports, rail stations, freeway rest stops all have calorie rich food to tempt us when we’re often at our weakest, when we’re tired and stressed. Opportunities for [...]

Fitness Plans – Stay On the Training Train At Christmas

The Christmas/New Year period is the most productive time for fitness industry cliché. Fitness and lifestyle magazines are full of mostly good advice about how to have a healthy Christmas dinner, and how to lose those extra pounds once the decorations are back in the loft, and the tree is on the compost heap.
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Periodization – Get Fit and Lose Weight By Training Like Athletes

When it comes to your workouts do you take an all-or-nothing approach? Have you ever wondered how professional athletes get fit and lose weight through their training?
Perhaps it’s time to think about taking the athletes’ approach to training. There’s an exercise term called “Periodization” which basically means that you don’t always have to be working [...]

Exercise – How Much Is Enough for Beginners?

If you have never worked out before, or haven’t in a very long time, some of the prescriptions out there for lengthy sessions at high intensity can seem rather intimidating.  So where do you start? How much is enough and how much is too much? Here are some general guidelines to get you started.
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Maximise Your Training Program With Effective Planning

Everyone’s time is valuable. If you have a busy life, a training program can be very hard to fit in. Children, your job, your partner, all need and deserve attention, it’s no wonder that most of us feel that there just is not enough time in the day. Therefore, when you take time to train, [...]

Protect Your New Workout Routine From Your Old ‘UnFit’ Routine

Is your new Workout Routine being sabotaged by your old routines?
Okay so you’ve decided, again, that you are absolutely, definitely, without a doubt, going to begin your workout program tomorrow morning. If you are anything like me, you have said this to yourself on several (dozen) occasions, only to let days slip by without being [...]

Cardio – Blast Through Your Cardio Funk

Are you getting bored with your cardio workouts? When you’ve been doing cardio exercises for a while, it’s easy to slip into a pattern of doing the same exercises in the same ways, day in and day out. That can lead to boredom and to your body getting used to the routine so that you [...]

Does Pain while Training Mean it’s Time to Stop? – Part 1

Exercise can hurt for a variety of reasons – some are nothing to worry about, and others are a sign to stop immediately. The trick is to know the difference, to know when to quit and when to push on. Part of this knowledge comes from experience.
With regular training, you will get to know what [...]

Does Pain while Training Mean it’s Time to Stop? – Part 2

‘No pain no gain’. We’ve all heard it. But is it true? Does fitness training have to hurt, and when it does, how can you learn to keep going and push through that ‘pain barrier’? Well, first of all, sometimes pain is a bad sign, and you shouldn’t try to push through it. See my [...]

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