My nutritionist recently posed this question: you take supplements religiously but how do you actually know they’re working? I paused to consider this, realising I didn’t know if they were…
We all know that feeling of muscling through a workout when you haven’t had your eight hours of shut eye. Your balance and coordination goes out the window, your cognitive…
We all know that skimping on your recovery is taking the express lane to injury. Aside from foam rolling and the odd massage is there any other way we can…
We all know that having a good idea of the foods we eat is one of the important factors towards hitting our health and fitness goals. A nutritional concept known…
Fat has many useful functions such as helping us maintain our body temperature and protecting our vital body organs. Fat transfers vitamins A,D, E and K through the body, critical…
HIIT and tabata training, performing alternating rounds of max effort exercises for twenty-seconds with ten-seconds of rest is the best way to boost your metabolism, get your muscles firing and…
The brain is the biggest organ in the human nervous system. Protected by the skull, it has many functions and is responsible for our memories, how we retain information, recall…
By timing your nutritional intake you can fire up your metabolism, regulate your hormones and energy levels whilst gaining an edge in your workout performance. There are many hormones stimulated…
If you are training to decrease body fat or lose weight for the long term, make sure you don’t fall into the starvation trap. Even though you may lose weight…
We are constantly bombarded with messages to eat organic, eat local, eat seasonal. Apart from being a trendy food movement why should we eat sustainably? Is it more expensive? And how…
