Fitness Keeps You Decades Younger
The important role that fitness and exercise plays in maintaining your health, improving your strength and function; minimizing your risk of many chronic diseases and improving your quality of life has been written
Does Obesity Contribute to Muscle Loss? (Metabolic Double Jeopardy)
One certainty in life is that everyday you will grow older. The rate of this change however occurs for each person at different rates and in different ways. This is largely determined by the lifestyle choices
Effect of Exercise on Fatty Liver Disease
Your liver is the largest internal organ of your body. Its major function is to filter blood coming from the digestive tract before passing it to the rest of the body. As such, the liver plays a role in detoxification,
7 Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
Fasting is the process of restricting your calorie intake for a specific time period. In the medical literature this is known as intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting can help your body fight off disease,
The Role of Sleep in Exercise Recovery
Few people understand the importance of sleep as a factor in achieving exercise and training goals. Most people focus on exercise strategy and nutrition to achieve their optimal health; while they ignore the
Why is mobility training important for your health?
When you think of exercise do you immediately consider aerobic exercise and strength training? Are you aware there are other components to your training which contribute to your overall health and well being?
Benefits of exercise for executives
Written by: Nathaniel Christoforou (Exercise Science student, Deakin Unviersity) Why you should dedicate the time to incorporate physical activity into your lifestyle Many Australians hold demanding jobs
How physical activity transforms your brain
We know the positive impact exercise has on our physical health, but did you know that physical activity has a positive impact on your brain? A recent study conducted on nine masters athletes aged between 50-80