Week 1 – Free Fitness Challenge
Welcome to our Week 1 Challenge! This is it! The time has come to put into practice our life changing fitness resolution in 2017. Getting our fitness back is achievable this year because the structure has been put in place to get us, fitter. All of you have now...
Empower Yourself For The New Year
We are at the party end of the year, and it is time to celebrate your accomplishments no matter how big or small. Another year of life deserves a few minutes of reflection, and there is no better time than the present to reflect on your 2016 fitness and make...
Fitness Discipline
Often fitness success is quoted as being the art of discipline. Successful people understand that discipline is a gateway to the achievement of goals. They learned how to use discipline in their lives to achieve their dreams. They create a set of good habits to help...
Back to basics
This week our focus was on our back. I called the workout “restorative” because like restorative Yoga, it was designed to align the physical and mental in a series of exercises that require the attention of practice, time and patience. Restorative becomes difficult...
Fast Fitness With Less Exercise
This week’s workout was intense, and many were impressed by the simple yet effective exercises. Using big muscle groups with explosive actions meant that it was impossible to sustain the exercise for the entire minute. Welcome to HIIT! High-Intensity Interval...
Middle Aged Spread: Fact or Fiction?
What is middle age spread? Middle age spread is not a medical condition, but perhaps it should be... it is understood to be the accumulation of fat around the hips, bottom, and belly in both men and women as we get older. Dr. C W Randolph an American...
Moving Forward
We resume classes for Term 4 on Monday 10th October, and we are delighted to announce additional classes at Artarmon and a new location at Willoughby Park Centre. Artarmon: Monday and Friday 8.45am (Monday 10th October) Willoughby: Wednesday 1.45pm (from...
Seeing Results with Fitness
We have come a long way in our fitness this term and 10 weeks have gone quickly, and yet week 1 seems another world away. C.S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian: “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…” When we...
SMART Aim for Fitness
. Increasing fitness can be as simple as showing up to a fitness class or habitually dedicating time for structured exercise. Setting fitness goals can be daunting particularly if fitness has been on the “to-do list” for many months or years. It is admirable to have a...
STEPtember is a call to action!
My newsletter this week was going to be about the importance of any exercise, and whether 10,000 steps is a good number to improve fitness. During my research for our newsletter, it occurred to me that talking about fitness is not good enough, and so this newsletter...
Spirit of the Olympics
Watching the Olympics has been inspiring and when we see athletes at the peak of their careers; they make it look so easy, that we can’t help wondering how different we are from these elite athletes. Without being facetious and talent aside, there is little difference...
Exercise can be a pain
This week’s exercises were different….using mainly our body weight we certainly became aware of our backside. Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS), is the pain and stiffness we feel in our muscles several hours, to days after they are used in an unfamiliar way. DOMS...