Every day we see articles and reports on the growing impact of obesity on our nation’s children, it’s scary stuff. Overweight kids often lead to obese adults, at risk of a shortened life due to weight related diseases and illnesses. Continue reading »
It goes a little something like this:
Start with a great breakfast, chase kids ’til lunch, grab something quick to eat, kids again through til 4 when hunger over takes and you grab some biscuits or a cake.
Then by the time dinner hits, you’re too hungry to cook, so have takeaways or the contents of the fridge. Continue reading »
It’s not fair, you set out on a plan to get yourself in shape and keep on track pretty well then…
The Silly Season, with weeks of temptations put in front of us at every turn and social events and end of year kids functions that keep us away from exercising and our well-laid eating plans.
Stability and balance training can often be forgotten amongst our workout schedule. After all, a gentle stability training session is not a big fat burner and it doesn’t give you sculpted muscles the same way lifting some grunty weights will.
Are you doing endless crunches and core exercises, feeling a pain in your thighs and in the lower back and not a lot else? Are you starting to find yourself tempted by the infomercial promises of hot abs in just ten minutes a week? Or are you doing nothing, just thinking one day you should get those abs tamed?
Well stop right there! Abdominal training is something we all focus on but it’s very easy to go through the movements for months without actually targeting the right area, which makes for frustration and lack of results.
Resistance training is basically any formatted exercise we do that overloads our muscles, so it’s not just going to the gym and using dumbells; exercises involving bodyweight and other forms of resistance (such as lifting babies) also count.
Cardio exercise, when we get our heart rate up, tends to be where we spend the largest part of our exercise time, so let’s take a look at some of the simple things we can do to make our cardio workout more effective.
Welcome to the KIWIFAMILIES November fitness challenge.
If you have been thinking about making some improvements to your health, improve your fitness or shedding a few winter kilos then Spring is the time to get into action; the weather is getting better and the days feel longer.
Over the next month I’ll be adding more info each week to get you on the way to a healthier and happier you. I’ll let you in on some realistic advice on making sustainable changes to your life, your fitness and waistline without joining a gym!
So, if you are one of those people who have joined a gym and never visited or don’t have room in the budget for a Personal Trainer then you are going to have to think outside the square. The obvious option is the old running round the block trick but what happens if the idea of pounding the pavements makes you head for the couch?
‘Living Green’ means looking after ourselves as well as our planet, and this means taking care of our bodies and our minds. Most of us experience being ‘down’ at some point in our lives; in fact one in 5 women experiences a diagnosed episode of depression in their lives (when it comes to the boys, the figures are one in 10).
