Fitness

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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Calculate Your Basic Weight And Measurements

Calculate Your Basic Weight And Measurements

Apologies - our weights & measurements tool is currently being upgraded to work with our new website theme so we've included the manual way to calculate these measurements. The tool will be back online soon. Thank you for your patience. Your first step to find out if you are at a healthy ...
An Inactive Type Starts At Wearside Virgin Rackets Club

An Inactive Type Starts At Wearside Virgin Rackets Club

Today I’m going to write about my business partner Neil, an inactive type who I’ve got down to Wearside Virgin Rackets Club at long last. Your health is the most important thing in the world. Maybe you only come to realise that when you go through a period of ill health. The ...
Warning: Inactivity Can Seriously Damage Your Health

Warning: Inactivity Can Seriously Damage Your Health

I was horrified the other day when I saw my Dad sitting on his couch with both legs bandaged all the way from his knees to the bottom of his feet. The reason for this is basically he doesn’t do enough walking and this has been the problem since he has ...
Exercise Bike Interval Workout

Exercise Bike Interval Workout

Working out on a stationary bike can assist you in burning tons of calories. Cycling is an effective way to improve cardiovascular and muscular endurance, as well as lose weight. Of all the exercises that can help you lose weight, cycling is simply one of the best. If you want to lose ...
Get Fit for Badminton

Get Fit for Badminton

Having recently taken up this new hobby of mine it is now important to me to get fit for badminton. Equally I know I need to get fit to win, and being a competitive type this is crucial to me. I have to be honest and admit to my frustrations at ...
Living A Healthy Lifestyle

Living A Healthy Lifestyle

We all know that it is important for us to be living a healthy lifestyle, we want to be able to do it, however frequently we will find reasons why we can’t. There are no doubts that living a healthy lifestyle requires commitment, the truth is that it really isn’t that difficult, ...
Overcoming Obstacles In Sport

Overcoming Obstacles In Sport

Badminton is a very simple game but one where you really need to learn all the basics in order to play the game well. Even though badminton is a relatively easy game to learn initially, it can be challenging if you want to play at a decent level. That's why learning how ...
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

Studies show that High Intensity Interval Training help burn up to nine times more fat than training traditional ways. A simple explanation of this is intensity interval training is basically a way of doing cardio training which involves going at a super high pace for a while then going back to a ...
Exercise Is One Of My Passions

Exercise Is One Of My Passions

As a fitness instructor I have found a majority of the guys I've trained, have a goal of getting ripped, defined & big. While for the women they generally want to get rid of all their body fat that's accumulated around their waist, bum, thighs, stomach and they want to achieve ...
How Important Is Rest

How Important Is Rest

Recently I have been asking myself how important is rest, and am I getting enough of it during my normal training week. Let me take me take you through my normal training week. Monday I train Chest and Triceps, Tuesday Back and Biceps and Wednesday Shoulders and Legs. Thursday and Friday are usual ...