Our Top 16 Exercise tips for Overcoming the Winter Blues and Preparing Your Summer Body Now! Motivating yourself to exercise during winter can be hard. With shorter days, cold and wet weather, it can be easier to give in to temptation and curly up under a blanket with some comfort food and Netflix. However, exercising
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Visit almost any fitness blog on the internet and you will see the mantra “your summer body is made in winter”. And while this mantra might get annoying, there is certainly a great lot of truth behind it. The average person puts on more than 4 kilograms over winter. We tend to fall into a
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What is best for body fat reduction in obese adolescents – lifting, running or….both ? Evidence shows that obesity levels among adolescents aged 10-16 years is increasing. Obesity-related chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease can be controlled, but not reversed, with the use of expensive medications. Therefore, if unchecked, when an
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Strength Training vs Cardio – which should come first ? Over the past decade exercise scientists have consistently shown that programs combining endurance training and strength training exercises have greater effects on overall physical fitness and health than prescribing one of these exercise modalities, alone. For example, endurance training is largely most beneficial for
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Mental Health Improves with exercise Mental health benefits are often underrated in the quest for physical prowess, one often hits the gym or track focusing purely on the physical effort required. The effect of psychological health drives all that we do, from motivating us to strive for improvement through to assisting us to deal with
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