WELLNESS — fitness

Intermittent fasting is growing in popularity as a great way to both lose weight, and keep those kilos off for the long-term. Research has shown it can improve your metabolic health and potentially even extend your lifespan – what’s not to love about that! But it’s not as simple as waking up one morning and deciding not to eat for half the day or cutting your calories down significantly. You need to look into the different methods available and decide which one works for you and then ease your body into it, so it doesn’t come as a big shock....

Weight Training Allows You to Recreate Your Body Weights are the tool that you can use to sculpt your body just like a potter shapes a piece of clay. It allows you to add, subtract, reshape, tone and define specific parts of your body with weight training exercises. Be aware, however, that you cannot spot reduce body fat. So, the calorie burn that we detailed in the last section will come off evenly from all over your body. Weight Training Makes You Sexy Strong In case you missed the memo, strong is the new sexy. And weight training is the...

 New Year… new you! It’s no secret that so many of us head into the New Year with bold plans to change a particular aspect of our lives. Whether you are wanting to shed those extra kilos, eat healthier or spend more time with the kids, most people set a New Year’s Resolution into place. There is nothing wrong with this! In fact, it’s a great thing to do. It means we are still searching to better ourselves and to do better, and this is a good thing. The problem is making it two weeks into the New Year and...

Find out how to implement the 3 key steps to getting rid of bad habits and cementing new ones.  We’ve all got bad habits that we’d like to eradicate from our lives. However getting rid of them in isolation can be almost impossible. A far smarter strategy is to pair the bad habit that you want to get rid of with a corresponding good habit that you can replace it with.   Let’s consider a simple 3-step method to allow you to do exactly that.  How Habits Work There are three steps to the creation of habits: The Trigger The Behavior...