Balance the Body

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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Simple Nutrition Rules for You

Simple Nutrition Rules for You

Despite the proliferation of materials and education about losing weight, people are getting fatter than ever. How you look, and how you feel is very much down to what you eat. Lack of muscle mass, high body fat, lack of energy, bad skin, digestive problems, sleep problems, mood swings… All of these ...
Active over 40 – It’s Not Too Late To Get Fit

Active over 40 – It’s Not Too Late To Get Fit

Alas a majority of people over 40 are not very physically fit. Most believe that exercise at their age is too hard, too unsafe, or that it's just too late for them to get started. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Just a small increase in your current activity ...
Get Active in the Morning

Get Active in the Morning

People in today’s supposedly fast paced world are actually becoming far less active. Not a lot of energy is used by your body when you use cars to travel everywhere you want to go; remote controls when for example you want to turn over the television; food processors when you are ...
Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle – Don’t Let Excuses Hold You Back

Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle – Don’t Let Excuses Hold You Back

You are responsible for your position in life at this moment. It is your responsibility to create the person you want to be and the life that you want to live. Do you want to carry on as you are? Do you want to change so you can create the life ...
Learn How To Be An Old Man In A Young, Fit, Healthy Body

Learn How To Be An Old Man In A Young, Fit, Healthy Body

 “We do not stop exercising because we grow old, we grow old because we stop exercising.” -Dr. Kenneth Cooper It’s never too late. Don’t use your age as an excuse for those aches and pains. Age is just a number. The saying goes “You’re only as old as you feel,”. Today you find ...
Winter Breakfast … Fill up Before you get Moving

Winter Breakfast … Fill up Before you get Moving

I bet that as long as you can remember, your Mother told you to eat a hearty breakfast. Every diet programme, fitness and health magazine, many articles you have read have told you the same thing. Well sorry you’re about to read it again, Breakfast is the most important meal of ...
HIIT Training – Burn Away your Body Fat

HIIT Training – Burn Away your Body Fat

So January is here and many of you will once again have turned your attention to exercising. Many of you will have purchased home use cardiovascular equipment while others will be joining a gym. Well I really hope that you can stay committed, and that you will achieve those results you ...
Lead a Healthy Lifestyle if you want to Feel Better and Live Longer

Lead a Healthy Lifestyle if you want to Feel Better and Live Longer

Think of lifestyle change as an evolving process, not as something with which you can start then stop when your targets are achieved. It’s easy to get caught up in the idea that you can achieve a certain number on a scale or a certain body size and that will be ...
Put Your Weight to Good Use

Put Your Weight to Good Use

So here we go — you are all set to storm into 2011 with great fitness resolutions. So what are your goals? Are your resolution to get fit? Lose weight? Feel more energetic? So you just can’t get into the Gym! You really have no time to workout! Between work, commuting, and ...
I Love Weight Training

I Love Weight Training

I love weight training, it’s one of those things that no matter how your day is going… it will always be there to give you the ultimate challenge… the one against yourself! Weight training is my passion. I still feel the thrill, the excitement of walking into the gym and seeing the ...