Your trainer is there to help motivate you, support you, guide you, and to help you perform each exercise that you are taught, safely and effectively. They’re good folks who try hard to match or elevate your enthusiasm to be your fittest. They want you to succeed and be your best, but sometime...
Cramming all your recommended weekly exercise into one or two weekend sessions is enough to produce important health benefits, a study suggests. And being active without managing 150 minutes of moderate activity a week was still enough to reduce the risk of an early death by a third. The findings...
Is your workout getting you nowhere? Research and lived experience indicate that many people who begin a new exercise program see little if any improvement in their health and fitness even after weeks of studiously sticking with their new routine. Among fitness scientists, these people are known as...
It can be difficult to know how to get started with an exercise routine if you don’t regularly exercise. Here we review the best science about how to start an exercise habit, and how to keep it going. What type of exercise, and how much? The government tells us we should get at least 150 minutes of...
How does your health you stack up against the rest of Australia? How healthy are we? What is health? What does it mean when we say a person is ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’? At a simple level, one can view the concept of health by focusing on the individual and on the presence, or...
