Exercise

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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Do Sports Nutrition Supplements Work

Do Sports Nutrition Supplements Work

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.” Many people are now supplementing their diet in order to provide nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, fiber, ...
10 Energy Foods For Running

10 Energy Foods For Running

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 ...
Take Up Sport

Take Up Sport

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 ...
Sports for Health

Sports for Health

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 ...
A Good Morning Workout Routine

A Good Morning Workout Routine

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 ...
Do You Prefer Sex or Chocolate

Do You Prefer Sex or Chocolate

I'm having a bit of fun in todays blog post. It's a simple question, do you prefer sex or chocolate? I'm sure though, once people think about it, how easy is it to really answer this question? What I want to know is what's with sex and chocolate? Why is it that ...
4 Relaxation Exercises That Work Instantly

4 Relaxation Exercises That Work Instantly

Stress has become a common and unavoidable part of life. Learning to cope with stress in both a healthy and effective way is essential in this day and age. Today, I have 4 relaxation exercises that work instantly at relieving stress. The pressures and strains of life take their toll on your ...
Running for Health

Running for Health

Did you know that running for health can help reduce the risk of chronic illnesses such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes as well as boosting your mood and keeping your weight under control? Physical activity isn’t just a choice; it’s an essential part of your lifestyle. Following a programme of ...
How to lower your blood pressure

How to lower your blood pressure

My friend was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure. He obviously is concerned and has asked me the question how to lower your blood pressure? Here is some advice I told him as to what he can do to bring it back down naturally. His anxieties heightened enormously when he read that ...
Dealing with Hot Flushes

Dealing with Hot Flushes

One of the advantages I have as a speaker is I’m not easily embarrassed. It’s been a trait of mine for a long time that I can take things in my stride. I must admit this was very much put to the test a day or two ago. I was sitting in ...