Your exercise tip – can we resistance train at home effectively? Yes, you can. A simple home exercise routine needs four elements. A pushing exercise, a pulling exercise, a leg exercise and an abdominal exercise. These are the basic start point you should look at to...
Your exercise tip – Definitions of exercise levels With so many recommendations out there on how we should exercise, clarification on the intensities is needed. Over the next three weeks I will clarify the three levels, which are general health recommendations,...
Your exercise tip – Ask questions about your exercise routines When we make an appointment with an exercise professional, we are placing a level of trust in their expertise and judgement. With that in mind, you should not be scared to ask questions about your...
Irrepressible Alicia Martin Every month, each trainer selects someone who they believe is going above and beyond the efforts asked. David’s selection goes to Alicia. Not only has Alicia lost heaps of weight and strengthened her body, she has continued to train,...
Exercise – how does it make us healthier? Our body responds in many ways to exercise, such as increasing the size of muscle fibres for greater strength or by increasing the amount of capillaries at a muscle to remove waste product and deliver oxygen. When we...