Weekly Health and Fitness Roundup: 14th – 20th May, 2012

Ever wondered about how the brain benefits from exercise, and how your mindset affects your health and training outcomes?  This week’s Inspire Fitness Health and Fitness Roundup will help answer your questions!

Sitting Is Killing You: The Health Risks of Sedentary Behaviour

It is well-established that regular exercise and a nutritious diet are critical to living healthy, living long, and living strong.  But did you know that excessive sedentary behaviour puts you at greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease and metabolic conditions such as diabetes? What is sedentary behaviour? Sedentary behaviour is activity that is only marginally…

Weekly Health and Fitness Roundup: 7th – 13th May, 2012

This week’s Inspire Fitness Health and Fitness Roundup looks at the science behind posture-based neck pain, the benefits of low glycaemic recipes, and common limiters to success!  Read on… “Don’t Stick Your Neck Out!”: At Inspire Fitness, we specialise in corrective exercise.  Many of our clients have postural and movement imbalances that can be corrected…

Throw Out The Scales: Why You Should Care About Fat-Free Mass

Here’s an all-too-common scenario that I’m sure many of you have encountered in your personal health and fitness journeys: Week 0: First weigh-in.  You record the number on your scales, then resolve never to see that number ever again.  You set a goal weight to achieve, with diligent training, healthy dietary choices, and the guidance…

Weekly Health and Fitness Roundup: 30th April – 6th May, 2012

It’s already May, and with the colder weather upon us, it is becoming easier and easier to make excuses to skip the gym.  But training consistency is one of the most important requirements for a healthy lifestyle, so stick with it!  This week’s Inspire Fitness Health and Fitness Roundup covers some simple tips for staying…

Now That I Have Diabetes, What Do I Do?

I was recently diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes… You have recently recognised that your waist circumference is growing, you stopped exercising long ago due to work and family commitments, and regularly eating healthy meals is something of the past. You recently went to your doctor where you were diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. You have…

Weekly Health and Fitness Roundup: 23rd – 29th April, 2012

We’re almost through with the first third of the year!  With that said, let’s get on with this week’s Inspire Fitness Health and Fitness Roundup: “The Incredible Power of Small Fitness”: To make big changes stick, break it down into small changes that you can do on a regular basis.  The secret to effective lifestyle…

Core Stability: Performing the Bird Dog Exercise

Core stability is a vital component of effective and functional movement.  Your  trunk muscles need to be active and strong in order to support your spine, absorb impact forces, and safely transfer forces through the body when performing compound movements (involving multiple body regions in one movement, e.g., a squat). At Inspire Fitness, one of…

Weekly Health and Fitness Roundup: 16th – 22nd April, 2012

This week, the Inspire Fitness Health and Fitness Roundup brings together links on meditation, personal development, and establishing a consistent and sustainable habit of morning workouts: “How to Meditate Daily”: Brendan’s post on meditation is one of the most popular posts on the Inspire Fitness blog.  Here, Leo Babauta of Zen Habits outlines some simple…

Oxfam Trailwalker 2012

Setting fitness goals for our clients to achieve is a critical part of my role as a personal trainer at Inspire Fitness, and a vital component to the success that we achieve with our clients. This Friday 20th April,  I will be undertaking the Oxfam Trailwalker 100km challenge with three gym members who have dedicated the last 5 months…

Who are we?
Inspire Fitness is a friendly gym with personal training in Balwyn North.  Our Award Winning Gym and personal trainers provide a high level of support and individual attention so that you reach your fitness, lifestyle and weight loss goals faster.  The Inspire Fitness gym team is comprised of Exercise Physiologists, Exercise Scientists, and Personal Trainers with over 30 years of university study and over 50 years of personal training experience.

  

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