The actual definition of fitness is a rather vague one describing the condition of being physically fit and healthy. Of course, the word carries much more weight than that, and to complicate things even further, the concept of ‘physically fit’ means different things to different people. I might consider myself…
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For a long time, weight training was considered to be a workout just for guys. This was mostly because women were afraid of becoming too muscular. Luckily this silly pre-conception has been squashed in recent times and weight training is fast becoming extremely popular among women. This is awesome news…
Read MoreA social media influencer earns money by developing a strong follower base and selling their own products and service or otherwise promoting someone else’s. A big part of this 21st century career is the fitness influencer. They set the trends for diets, exercise and training. As a personal trainer, becoming…
Read MoreChoosing and settling into a career choice is something that will determine, to a large extent, how satisfying a life a person leads. This makes sense since we spend roughly nine hours a day, forty hours a week, two-thousand and eighty hours a year, or ninety thousand hours over a…
Read MoreWe’ve all heard it before: lift with your legs and not your back. This is common knowledge when attempting to pick up anything heavy, especially those massive weights at the gym. But when we’re well into a weight-training session a lot of us are still guilty of not adopting the…
Read MoreIf you are looking to become a personal trainer then you have no doubt been scouring the web for options in terms of courses you can attend and what they have to offer you. South Africa has a range of approaches to entering into the professional fitness world; and while…
Read MoreMental conditioning is something many athletes, from amateurs to professionals, require to perform at their best. Self-limiting beliefs are an athlete’s kryptonite. When this happens these negative thoughts start to affect performance. This is when a sports psychologist steps in. Here’s a definition of the profession, who should be seeing…
Read MoreThese days it seems like every person you know is either downing kale smoothies or wearing some sort of step counter. While the products may change through the years (remember Zumba?), being fit and healthy isn’t just the latest fad. Fitness is a sustainable lifestyle choice that you need to…
Read MoreThere are many ways to exercise the human body. Specific groups of exercises can help to achieve specific fitness goals. Runners focus primarily on cardiovascular and endurance exercises, while body builders tend to keep things in the free-weight section. To vary things up a little, they also head for the…
Read MoreWe know the feeling, the morning’s come a little later and the sun sets that much easier, and as the cold wind blows in it tends to make us want to do less; get tucked up under a blanket watching Netflix and vegging out. While that does sound enjoyable, there…
Read MoreOnline personal training is the process whereby personal trainers use Internet-based services to plan, promote and execute personal training sessions. The idea that only wealthy people with premier gym contracts have access to personal trainers is a myth. In fact, with the rise of Internet-based communication, anyone with a computer…
Read MoreWhen trying to meet your fitness goals while running solo, it isn’t uncommon to lose momentum and wonder where the progress is going. Fitness is a continual process of pushing your body harder, and when you plateau, you’ll find that you stop seeing results, your motivation weigns and those fitness…
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