5 last minute nutrition tips for the 2016 City to Bay

1. Start good hydration now if you havn’t already (not the amber coloured type!). Hopefully your day to day hydration habits aren’t leaving you with dark coloured urine. Any concerns, top up now. Downing a litre before you head out…

5 top tips to choosing a personal trainer

I’ve worked in the personal training industry in Adelaide for most of the past 2 decades and for much of this time I’ve been responsible for helping new clients choose an appropriate personal trainer. Here’s my view on what you…

Excess body weight linked to greater cancer risk

I really like seeing headlines like this in our local paper, talking about ‘health’ rather than just appearance when referring to body weight. Maintaining your weight in the ‘healthy weight range’ is an important aspect of health and creating sustainable…

Why #Ihaveembraced and why you should too….

Because Rhino’s were never meant to be unicorns… The very fact that it is the svelte unicorn used as the goal or prize and the heavy rhino as the ‘wannabe’ shows a norm of society, an assumption that we all…

Life PT @ Rehab Trainer

A number of our team recently attended a 3 day workshop on postural screening, functional anatomy, screening for client injury risk and techniques to assist clients with a range of ‘niggles’ that cause pain and limit mobility. The Rehab Trainer…

Training during winter – motivation or habit?

I’m a ‘student’ of human motivation – I find it fascinating to understand what drives human behaviour in many different applications. In my world I think about this a lot in terms of  parenting my children, growing a business and…

The anti aging effect of exercise

One well know aspect of the aging process is cognitive decline – decline in the way that our brains function often seen as memory loss. Over the years we’ve turned to many different ‘tools’ from cross words to video games…

Exercise as medicine for 26 well known conditions

Great review here showing the evidence behind exercise as being ‘medicine’ for these common diseases including – Depression Anxiety Stress Schizophrenia Dementia Parkinson’s disease MS Obesity Diabetes – Type I + II Hypertension Coronary heart disease Asthma And more………. Some…

More research that removes the ‘time’ excuse for exercise

I’ve had another paper come across my desk comparing the benefit of really short bouts of high intensity exercise (Eg. 1 minute intervals) against longer duration aerobic exercise. In this particular study, both the shorter/higher intensity work intervals and the…

Sharpen your mind with exercise

More evidence has arrived showing us that 150 minutes of weekly moderate to vigorous exercise is just as important as the Cross Word and Sudoku in keeping our brains firing as we age. The study reported in Neurology Now used MRI…