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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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. 

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