No matter how long you’ve neglected your body, it’s never too late to shape up and get rid of excess fat. However, as everyone has differing body types, simply losing weight on the scales isn’t the only criteria: how you look and how you feel are the best indicators of progress.
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In much the same way that diet affects well-being, paying attention to physical posture can also certainly improve your overall health. Posture effects and is affected by just about everything we do either awake or asleep. So let’s face some of the facts and see what solutions there are.
The good, the bad and [...]

Just finished doing the really stressful refurbishment which I am glad is over, below are the pictures that were taken this week, let us know what you think.

Many women are turned off from training as they have the wrong impression that lifting weights is something men want to do to build big muscles.  How your body adapts to working with weights is determined by your genetics.

For women there are numerous benefits for doing resistance training and I promise you won’t end up [...]

Most people are happy to lose weight from any part of their body, as long as the overall outcome is fat reduction.  However if you are a bodybuilder you will be more concerned with the composition and shape of your body and more likely to want to target certain areas that hold on to fat.

Have [...]

Why are lifting weights so effective at burning fat?
The more muscle mass you put on through weight lifting the more fat calories you will burn even at rest. Weight lifting also boosts metabolic rate both over the short term as well as the long term, where as cardio only boosts metabolic rate for one [...]

We’re all guilty of it: rushing headlong into our strength training routine without the requisite stretching and then rushing through our warm down. How conscious are you of your flexibility? Can you still touch your toes? Do you still want to be able to do this as you get older?  Yoga could be the [...]

The diet was developed by Dr Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist based in Florida who developed the diet as a response to the high-cholesterol, obesity and diabetes suffered by many of the patients in his clinic.  The patients found they lost weight easily and didn’t feel hungry, their health problems improved and as a result they [...]

Insulin is a hormone that regulates glucose metabolism in the body, when the pancreas detects a rise in glucose it pumps out a corresponding level of insulin to manage it.

Glucose is the form sugar takes in our bloodstream. It is a form of chemical fuel that our brain and body needs to continually work well, [...]

Running stairs- sprint to the top of the stairs as fast as you can then walk down slowly.  This is a great way to burn loads of calories.  The Rocky workout!!!
Beach running- due to the resistance of the sand this is much harder than running on the street.  Run barefoot on the sand and make [...]