Understanding your heart rate zones can take your training to the next level.

Have you ever wondered why many runners and more and more people are doing their exercise with a black strap around their chest and a big black watch that they keep looking at and pressing buttons on? Continue Reading

Looking ‘right’ for your sport. Being a girl can be hard work, but being an athlete can be even harder. Often, the sport you’ve chosen demands certain skills, strengths and talents, but the one thing that most sports have in common is that an ‘ideal’ body type is desired. Continue Reading

Having a normal range of motion is something most of us take for granted, until we loose it. Range of motion is defined as the normal range of movement for a joint – how far it can be bent and stretched out.  For example, the knee and elbow joints bend very well, but don’t extend very far past “straight”.  The shoulder on the other hand, is responsible for lifting forwards, backwards, out to the side and rotating. Continue Reading

FACT:

energy in < energy out = weight loss

Right? Continue Reading