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The Art Of Forming Exercise Habits - It’s Mind Blowing
The benefits of exercise are well documented with numerous research, but often the hardest place to undertake regular exercise is the start, and then to make it part of your daily routine.
Habit Change To Your Health and Fitness Is Hard - Simple lessons from a career in the industry
Making a change to your health & fitness, whatever your goal, from performance, fat loss, rehabilitation, disease management & prevention, is HARD! It’s the unconscious nature of our habits, good or bad, that can make them difficult to change.
Injury Proof Your Body to Game, Set, and Match
By strengthening the muscles associated with stability, we can take some of the load off of these joints and place it where it belongs; the muscles! Here are 5 basic exercises to do with a performance coach to help injury-proof your body.
Lower Back Pain in Cyclists: Part 1
This is part one of a two-part blog outlining the need to know information about low back pain in cyclists. In part one we will be discussing why it happens, and the risk factors surrounding it.
Preventing Back and Neck Pain: How to set up your work station
In the vast majority of those who suffer back pain, neck pain and headaches, poor posture is a significant contributing factor, and in many the primary reason they develop problems.
These are some simple tips that will significantly reduce the likelihood of developing back and neck problems that are easy to implement:
Osteoporosis - The Benefits of Strength Training on Bone Health
According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, 2.2 million Australians over the age of 50 are affected by Osteoporosis. Osteoporosis represents a condition that affects bone health and can affect numerous areas including the hip, spine, knees and wrist to name a few.
Strength Training For Better Sex
So statistics tells us that every other bloke has problems with their sex life. Don’t panic guys, there’s no need for the little blue pill, regular exercise is a natural Viagra…
Accredited Exercise Physiologists: What are we and how can we help?
Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEPs) are university qualified allied health professionals, equipped with the knowledge, skills and competencies to design, deliver and evaluate safe and effective exercise interventions for people with acute, sub-acute or chronic medical conditions, injuries or disabilities.
Lift To Look After Your Mental Health In Lockdown
During this lock down period there has been a drastic increase in demand for mental health services as well as increases in suicide rates. Access to gyms, team sports, physical activity and the socialisation that goes along with it plays a critical role in positive mental wellbeing.
Strength Training for Menopause
Exercise interventions are becoming one of the go-to alternative treatments to Hormone Replacement Therapy for treating symptoms and reducing health impacts of menopause. In fact, there is evidence to suggest pairing HRT with resistance training can increase the effectiveness of both interventions.
Sleep Hygiene: Top Tips on How to Get a Good Nights Sleep
Sleep hygiene is an important daily task that everyone should consider as vital to overall well-being. Not taking care of our sleep hygiene can be seriously damaging to our health and can result in motor vehicle or workplace accidents, development of depression or anxiety, weight gain, chronic disease and decreased life expectancy.
Exercise and Anxiety: Why We Should All Be Exercising Regularly
It has become common knowledge that exercise has immensely positive affects on mental health, with this, it would be logical to commence structured training to ideally attenuate anxiety and provide a rather organic avenue for positive change, both physically and mentally.
Training Guidelines During Pregnancy: What you can do safely through the stages
Not that long ago it was recommended bed rest was the only course of action during pregnancy, an idea since thankfully thrown out the window as science and research has advanced.
Coach vs Personal Trainer: Understanding Why They Are Different
Not a week goes by where the Performance Coaches here at Absolute don’t get referred to as personal trainers. While it doesn’t overly offend, or concern me, I know it does for other coaches, as it is something that needs clarity if our industry is to gain greater respect as a profession within the general public.
Lower Back Disc Rupture: What is it and What are my Recovery Options?
Many people suffer from back pain and sciatica. Unfortunately, a variety of terms are used to describe this, common descriptions include “slipped disc”, disc bulge, disc protrusion, disc herniation, and disc rupture. These terms really all mean the same thing, with the exception being disc rupture, as this does indicate a more damaged disc that frequently has a worse prognosis (at least in the short-medium term).
Improving mental wellbeing in the workplace through movement
The challenges facing today’s workforce are well documented and dealing with depression and anxiety in the corporate world is increasingly commonplace due to increasing time and financial pressures.
In order for us to improve and maintain positive mental wellbeing there are some core habits we should try and implement in our day to day lives.
Lower Back Pain and Sciatica: How to Relieve Your Own Pain and Prevent Reoccurrence
Everyone will know good friends and family members who will try and tell you how to fix your back, based on their own experience. The trouble with this is back pain is not a diagnosis, it is a symptom. And it will require a specific tailored solution.
Part 1: Stress, What Does it Do to Your Body?
Stress is a part of our daily human experience and is associated with a range of emotional, mental and physical demands. Pressures placed on the body by exercise, financial matters, emotional situations, poor nutrition and inadequate sleep all are processed as stress in your body. That is, our body processes are identical despite the great variability in our experience.
Muscle and its Role in Health and Disease
Strength training not only has the obvious benefits of getting stronger, creating lean tissue, which we will talk about more, but it has cardiovascular benefits too. Strength training, all of course when performed with correct technique, taught by a highly skilled and educated Performance Coach like the Absolute team, is the most efficient and effective form of training for overall benefits that exercise gives you.
Training Through Injury, and Why its Important to Work Around It
Gone are the days of wrapping yourself in cotton wool and waiting out the storm. Through smart, well planned training modifications there are always ways to work around to keep you active, providing ongoing benefits for the mind, body and spirit through the recovery process.