A unilateral exercise is where you would use one side or one limb like a ‘step up’ and a bilateral exercise would be a ‘squat’ where both feet work together. Balance Doing a single leg or arm exercise requires much more balance as it has a smaller base of support. This means that more stabilising...
How to Get Stronger Legs by Using the Box Squat
If you’re looking at changing up your Back Squat routine then try adding in some Box Squats. These can be done with a Barbell on your shoulders or if you find that’s too much or your shoulders and upper back are tight and you can’t grab the barbell, then go for a kettlebell or dumbbell. Advantages...
Popular Weight Loss Supplements – Are They Safe?
Recently WA man Matthew Whitby used two of what he thought were safe and regulated weight loss supplements but ended up with liver failure and an emergency transplant. We have many consumer protection laws and agencies in Australia so on face value it seems reasonable to expect that if a product...
Setting Goals – The Key To Success
Are you forever setting health and well-being goals and not achieving them? If so, you are one of the many people we see each day who are trapped in a cycle and often express feelings of despair, dis-empowerment and desperation. Its usually at that point that we can be vulnerable to impulse buying...
How The Right Kind of Exercise Can Keep You Young
Did you know that our metabolic rate (body’s energy expenditure) starts to decline after the age of 25? How many times have you heard ‘I used to be able to get away with this or that’? Now you know why. But don’t despair, you can prevent the dreaded ‘middle age spread’ and stay young on the inside...
CHAPTER TWO – STUPID DIETS I HAVE TRIED
Before becoming a Coach I tried quite a few diets and crazy exercise regimes; I’ve decided to share these experiences with you… The Soup Diet My brother told me he had found an amazing new diet that was going to change his life and help him lose a heap of weight. At this stage I had never dieted...