Business leaders understand the value that fitness brings to their performance

Regardless of which side of politics you’re on, its been really interesting to see the profile that Tony Abbott gets for being committed to regular exercise. It’s not uncommon to see the now PM in his bathers at the beach…

Jamaican Chicken with Pineapple Salad

This is one of my favourite recipes at the moment.  So fresh and simple, full of flavour and absolutely perfect for Spring.  For me, the best part of this dish is the salad.  It’s different which makes for an interesting…

Give your kids a better start to life

A recent study published in the Los Angeles Times has shown that physical fitness has produced improved learning in children. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-physically-fit-kids-learn-better-memory-20130911,0,6326552.story So how can you help improve the fitness of your kids? Role model physical activity – show your kids…

What’s your priority – $ or health?

Saw this great opinion piece from Dr David Kratz, Huffington Post; We could manage our weight and our health with at least as great and reliable a ROI as we can get by managing our money. We could, if we…

Walking is good but vigorous exercise is better as a predictor of healthy ageing

As someone who works in a role where I promote healthy lifestyle choices, I’ve always adopted the motto that ‘something is always better than nothing’ when it comes to exercise. While I believe this still has merit, there is an…

What are you drinking?

A recent article in The Advertiser reported on the action being taken by a coalition of health groups including the Cancer Council, Obesity Society, Diabetes Australia and the Heart Foundation to lobby Coca-Cola to take more responsibility for the products…

New Personal Training Appointments @ Life Personal Trainers

We’d like to introduce Gaynor Pope, Nathan Rotolo and Sean Conrad Small as the most recent appointments to our personal training team. Gaynor has been a fitness professional since 2003, accumulating 10 years of personal training experience in both gym…

Sitting IS the new Smoking

The 12 year follow up of 11,000 people involved in an Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle study has concluded that we are ‘stacking on the weight’ as a society and has pointed to ‘sitting’ as  a key factor in this…

Getting paid to lose weight – are you serious??

A recent article published in Business Insider Australia has described a scheme in Dubai where the city intends to pay residents with gold if they lose weight http://au.businessinsider.com/dubai-will-pay-residents-in-gold-if-they-lose-weight-2013-7 What is the world coming to! Making any change including losing weight…

New massage therapist at LPT Unley

We’re pleased to welcome Colin Varacalli to the team at  Life Personal Trainers, Unley. Colin is a remedial massage therapist who has experience working with both male and female clients, people looking to relieve general muscular tension and sport specific…