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Your Goals, Your Choices, Your Results
Life is a roller coaster. You can CHOOSE to take that ride, learning from your experiences along the way; or you can CHOOSE to rebel...
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Increase
The scientific formula for Work is force x distance. And the formula for Force is mass x acceleration. For the purposes of resistance...
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Cardio
Cardiovascular Fitness - the heart's ability to deliver blood to working muscles and their ability to use it. Of all the elements of...
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Progression
Increasing physical strength is the goal of strength training. PHYSICAL STRENGTH - the ability to exert force on physical objects using...
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Consistency is Key
Increasing cardio fitness requires consistently aiming for faster speed or longer distance (endurance). Increasing strength requires...
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Flexibility
Flexibility! One of the key components of physical fitness and probably the one most often ignored! Your flexibility needs to be worked...
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Setbacks
Setbacks are a part of all our journeys. It's what you do when they happen that makes all the difference. They are an opportunity to...
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Diets Dont Work!
A word of advice to everyone asking themselves and others 'which diet should I be on? Or 'does this diet work?'. Most diets out there are...
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Never Stop Pushing!
It’s not the time spent exercising that will get you where you want to be, it’s the time you spend pushing your boundaries that force the...
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Its All Yours!
A simple reminder to all. The only person responsible for your health, fitness, wellbeing, etc. is yourself! No-one else can and will do...
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The Ultimate Circuit
Eat Clean, Train Hard, Stretch, Sufficient Sleep. 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 52 weeks/year, for the rest of your life!
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Recovery
There is no such thing as overtraining, only under-recovery! And by recovery I don't just refer to your time between one training session...
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TRY
A Note to Remember: It is in the "TRY", the attempt to achieve something, where you get stronger and fitter. If you don't try you will...
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Reality Check!
Reality Check! Don't live in the past. Every day is a new start. Even if you have had great achievements in the past every day is a new...
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You are Only as Fit as Your Recovery
Completing a single rep/set of an exercise and collapsing on the floor unable to continue any further does not represent fitness. A fit...
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Resistance Training
Resistance training DOES NOT mean resisting the efforts of your trainer! Now that we hopefully have that cleared up I can tell you what...
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I've Got to have a Life!
'I've got to have a life!', 'I need to live!'. Both are comments I hear on a regular basis as excuses for not exercising, not eating...
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Its Not About the Weight!
Need to increase your speed, strength, stamina? Functional resistance training is the answer. Resistance training is not just for...
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