The festive season is well and truly upon us and Christmas day is just around the corner. Finding the perfect present for friends and family members can be tricky, so we’re here to help! We’ve come up with a health and fitness inspired Christmas wish list that will be sure to give you some great Christmas…
Steve’s Reflections from the Asia Fitness Conference
The Asia Fitness Conference celebrated its 10th year anniversary in 2018. The 3 day conference and exhibition was held in Bangkok from the 5th – 7th October. It was a significant milestone and representative of the evolution of fitness training in Asia over the last decade. The Conference attracted exercise professionals from a wide range…
How Social Media Has Influenced the Fitness Industry
Social media has had a huge impact on the fitness industry from the instantaneous interaction we can have with people all over the world to content being accessible to anyone and everyone. We live in a world where we have never been more connected and influenced by social media. We have so much information readily…
How to Recover like an Elite Athlete
Recovery techniques have become an integral component of high performance sport, with new methods continuously being investigated and introduced to give athletes a competitive advantage. Adequate recovery has been shown to result in the restoration of physiological and psychological processes, with the aim of reducing fatigue and enhancing performance. Utilising recovery techniques should not however…
What are the best health and fitness-related apps?
With Apple’s recent announcement of GymKit, which “allows Apple Watch users to sync data with gym equipment with a simple tap, displaying information from your personal profile on the equipment’s screen while also sending analytics from the equipment back to your apps.” So with that in mind, and for those that don’t have an Apple…
The Rise of the Insta-famous Insta-fitness Trend
The growth of social media, especially amongst the younger generation, has seen the rise of an all new type of famous, one that wouldn’t and couldn’t have existed just 10 years ago. It’s known as being ‘Insta-famous’, people who are famous through Instagram. In the health and fitness industry qualified personal trainers are using the…
F45 – The Fitness Trend Taking Australia by Storm
F45 – you have probably heard of it, the new fitness trend that is taking Australia by storm. F stands for functional, 45 for the length of the class (makes sense), and the workouts are getting members coming back for more… Set up in a ‘boutique’ style studio, classes focus on high intensity interval training,…
Top 10 fitness trends for 2017
Each year since 2006, the American College of Sports Medicine have conducted a global fitness trends survey. The survey was sent out to over 24,000 people, from all over the world. This year the survey received 1,801 responses—a good response rate by anyone’s standards. With 2016 almost at its end, we look to 2017 to…
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