Fitness

There has been a remarkable growth in the popularity of racket sports including tennis, badminton, squash and racket ball. This has been matched by sportsmen focusing more attention on improving their performance particularly through physiology and nutrition in order to improve their fitness levels.

Passion for sport unites everybody and allows you to live a healthy lifestyle. It gets even better when your passion for sport becomes your road to success.

Feel like you’re sleepwalking all day, even after a full night’s sleep?  You need to find ways to boost your energy and fight fatigue so you can get your spark back. One of the best read articles on this blog is titled 10 foods to boost energy. Week by week it will be in the [...]

As a healthy lifestyle living blogger I have a goal: to turn people’s lives around by helping them get fit and healthy. Not everyone loves to hit the gym, slave away on the cardiovascular machines and work their muscles to breaking points with the weights like I do. Fortunately there are so many other options open to everyone, and here at Healthy Lifestyles Living we want to offer solutions to help people get fit and healthy in ways that suit them best.

As a fitness instructor I often get asked, do sports nutrition supplements work? A supplement is defined as “Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole.”

If you know some of the reasons for tiredness then you can start making changes to give yourself more energy throughout the day. We all go through periods where we feel tired from time to time. Normally, it’s obvious what the cause of this is. Often we’re burning the candle at both ends. So we know that if we take time to rest and catch up with our sleep we will feel fine pretty quickly.

From a very young age, the passion of sport has been inside me. One of the things I most miss living in the North East of England is being able to watch my beloved Arsenal Football Club play. This feeling is at its greatest right now as I’m sitting waiting for the kick off to our game against our local rivals Tottenham. I best get this post written before the match starts because my mood is likely to fluctuate dramatically during the 90 minutes of the game, and dependent on the result my normal positive mindset may be put on ice for a little while.

One of the best forms of exercise is going for a run and today I have compiled my top 10 energy foods for running. With the weather seemingly improving, I know there are a lot of people now planning to get started on running outdoors, which is a great form of exercise for both health and fitness.

Playing sports is something many love to do, I for one love to take up sport as a great way to keep fit. For others it is something they loved doing when they were younger, but long ago they just stopped and the opportunity hasn’t arisen where they have started actively participating once again. And this is such a shame.

Something I feel very passionate about is playing sports for health. A very noticeable factor that affects health which in my eyes seems to be getting more common, is the decline in the level of physical activity in people’s daily lives. It’s a very simple fact, physical inactivity is a major risk factor for most common non-communicable diseases.

Here’s are my top 5 reasons for fatigue. Do you feel tired all the time? Lots of people do. Maybe you’ve noticed that you are far more irritable as well as suffering a low sex drive, finding it difficult to concentrate, you always seem to be getting colds and coughs. I’m no doctor, but as a physical fitness instructor and life coach many people that I work with come to me with these type of ailments, and the common denominator normally works out to be that they are suffering from fatigue.

Today I want to offer you a good morning workout routine. So rise and shine, no more lying around in bed trying to catch those extra few minutes. No more using that snooze button avoiding that time where you have to step out of bed. Instead you need to spring out at the first sound of your alarm because you have something really important to do.

A lot of people have been asking me the same question lately, why am I always tired? Do you jump out of bed in the morning invigorated, ready to start the new day, or…

Fatigue is the feeling of extreme tiredness or feebleness that can make it difficult for you to perform ordinary tasks. You are fatigued when you’re feeling worn out all the time. Fatigue affects everyone differently. You may feel very tired and all you want to do is sleep. Fatigue may also come along with pain and sometimes can make you feel that you have little control over your life.

My friend was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure. He obviously is concerned and has asked me to give him some advice as to what he can do to bring it back down naturally.

Do you suffer from a lack of Energy? Are you feeling run down, needing more energy in your life, feeling negative about yourself recently? Do you struggle to get up in the mornings, or is it big energy slumps in the afternoon that affect you the most?