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Michelle Obama Has It Backwards: You Should Train Harder After Menopause

A recent interview with Michelle Obama that was published on HarpersBazar.com has been doing the rounds on social media over the last few days – which is pretty concerning. Not because we have anything against Michelle, but because we fear the comments made may be taken the wrong way by the broader health and fitness

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Stop Taking Loans on Your Health

Over the last few years “hustle” culture has embedded itself into the lives of people across the globe. However, while the drive to work yourself to the bone in your twenties, thirties, and forties to set yourself up in your later years may have a positive impact on your financial situation, it is likely to

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Start Small, Think Big: Strength Begins With Small Changes

From little things, big things grow.  As cliché as it sounds, it is true – especially when it comes to health and fitness. Which is exactly what this article aims to explain. How to properly set workout goals For the longest time it was thought that “SMART” goals were the best way to approach goal

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Simple and Effective Ways to Create Exercise Self-Discipline

When people decide to adopt an exercise routine, they normally attack it head on. Motivation is high, and they are excited to get started.  As a result, the tendency is to go big and try and make many large changes at once. Which kind of makes sense. I mean, that is what’s going to get

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Habit Stacking: How to Build Exercise Habits

Changing your routine to adopt better lifestyle behaviours can have a profound impact on your health and fitness. It is also something that most people find extremely difficult. Which is why we are always on the lookout for useful methods that can improve motivation and make the process easier – like habit stacking, for example…

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How to Stay Healthy While Working From Home

Over the last six months the world as we know it has been completely turned on its head. COVID-19 has impacted upon our way of life in a way that no one could have predicted – and as a result, people have been struggling. One area where people are having really a hard time sits

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Now Is the Time to Bring Back the Presidential Fitness Test 

I am not sure about you, but over the last few years I have noticed a seriously sharp decline in the resiliency of our children. No longer are they able to tolerate stress, face adversity, and handle any sort of criticism. While I don’t doubt that this is the result of a combination of factors,

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How to Build Resiliency During A Pandemic

We are living through one of the most serious situations in modern history. This whole COVID-19 thing has turned the world as we know it upside down. And we could not have been any more unprepared. On both an individual and societal level, we are in a state of complete and utter disarray – so

Virginia Davies

Message From Your CEO

Over the last decade the world of health and fitness has become increasingly difficult to navigate. There are internet trolls hiding around every corner, and dangerous misinformation and ‘bro science’ on every webpage. Trying to find an answer to any question can be so difficult that it is just easier to give up. I know

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How to Stay Healthy at the Gym

Over the last few days, we have seen the coronavirus situation escalate rapidly. With this has come some recommendations around exercise, and more importantly, around attending the gym. As a result, you might be wondering whether there is anything you can do to stop the spread of germs at the gym and keep yourself healthy?

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Now Is the Time to Reset Your Health

Even though we are living in the most abundant time in human history, chronic disease is at all-time high. The incidence of obesity, diabetes cardiovascular disease, depression, and anxiety are all reaching epidemic proportions. And to top it all off, we are now facing a coronavirus pandemic. Not good. But, in my honest option, this

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Exercise: The Ultimate Escape

John Barry I came across the difference of these two terms a few years into my fitness career. Having grown up as an athlete and playing multiple sports, I would always workout. I genuinely enjoyed it. Wether it was strength training or running. I never saw it as work, but more of a reward. This