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Strength Training vs Cardio - The Benefits Of Variety In Your Workout
When it comes to the topics of fitness and weight loss, there is a fair bit of contention over what is the more effective route- cardio, or strength training. Especially for those starting out on their fitness journey, the choice can be an unnecessarily confusing and complicated one.
Men’s Health Week 2022
To celebrate Men’s Health Week, let’s take a look at all things impacting the Aussie bloke, and more importantly, what can be done about it to improve mental, physical, and sexual health.
Training With Your Menstrual Cycle
Your menstrual cycle is more than just a period – it is a combination of the ovarian and uterine cycles which interact within the female reproductive system to make pregnancy possible.
How to train around an injury
Personal trainer Ben Andrews gives you the tools to keep training when and injury is trying to hold you back.
Lower Back Pain in Cyclists: Part 2
Part two of lower back pain in cyclists is all about exploring the various ways you can strengthen and stabilise in order to lower your risk of developing low back pain while cycling.
Principles Of Programming: Are You Structuring Your Training Correctly?
There are many things to consider when it comes to designing a program for either someone going through rehab, for general population looking to achieve physical goals, weight loss or composition change for long term health or elite athlete performance.
Resistance Training Goals What Are Your Goals And The Methods To Match
This article is aimed to help you to understand some of the different methods that can be used to achieve your goals, and ultimately, guided by an experienced Performance Coach like those at Absolute, to maximise your performance potential.
Why Diet Quick Fixes Never Work
While online coaches, magazine articles, crash diet program’s and magic supplements all have big marketing budgets, exciting headlines and massive promises, they all fail 100% of the time in the long term.
Improving Nutrition, Activity & Health Part 3 – Why Diets Fail & How Exercise Influences Nutrition
Improving nutrition, activity, and therefore overall health and wellbeing is something we should all strive for, and something that people will struggle with at different levels, over different times in their lives. But having a greater understanding about what is important, you learn how even little habit changes can have profound effects for a life time of health.
Improving Nutrition, Activity & Health Part 2 – Priorities, Planning, And Action for Nutrition
Mindful eating and establishing a positive relationship with food, avoiding guilt and fear is a must to start, but from there to move forward, and start to achieve tangible results, a clear plan is needed.
Improving Nutrition, Activity & Health Part 1 – Your Relationship with Food and the Physical Effect
It will come as no surprise to hear that as a Performance Coach I often get asked for a nutrition plan to help a client lose weight, get healthier or put on muscle. Invariably they are after a prescription of what they can and cannot eat and in what quantities.
Resistance Training and Body Image: The Critical Link
Given the adverse effects poor body image has on our physical, social and mental health, we would be silly to not spend significant time in our lives doing things that can improve our body image, and resistance training in particular is an incredibly effective mode
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.