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"Activate your core" …have you heard this before?

The cardiovascular system requires very complex control to maintain blood pressure and blood flow to the muscle during exercise. The maintaining of optimal blood pressure is critical for survival as a drop in blood pressure can cause passing out, which in turn can cause the brain to start dying as there is not enough blood flow reaching it. On the other end of the spectrum, an increase in blood pressure causes the heart muscle to pump harder and if it cannot cope with this increase in pressure complications can occur for example heart attack.

We use the Bioscan to identify areas in which we can target in your program or build upon depending on the result. 5 of these top measurements we can make a focus upon include your Skeletal Muscle Mass, Total Fat Mass, Visceral Fat, Mineral Density and the Bioage. In this article we will look at what each category involves, why it's important to focus on the area to better your health and how we do this!

Do you find yourself nervous and anxious on race day?

We're all familiar with the idea that we should be exercising so why is weight training for over fifties an important factor that is often over looked? More importantly, why do we need to exercise?

Office workers find it difficult to make the most of their training and lifestyle changes because there is no physical activity throughout the day due to their long hours in office. Generally, 8-12 hours are taken in a day with work then no activity usually happens to and from work when commuting. Also, there is no time outside of this because the workplace might be far from home travel takes time.

There is nothing new in using a diary to plan your day, week, year however do you take the time to plan your training and make sure it's in your diary.

Everyone has a DANGERTIME where they forget all their healthy eating principles and start munching away mindlessly. For some people it's that afternoon slump, for others it's meal preparation time and for some it's the late night supper snack.

Firstly, if you are not aware what interval training is, it is an alternate method to aerobic exercise that has gained vast popularity in recent times. The most common type that you may have heard of is High intensity interval training (HIIT). In HIIT training you combine short bouts (10-30 secs) of high-intensity exercise (>85%intensity) with recovery periods (20-60 secs) at low or moderate intensity (50-75% intensity).  Regardless of your gender, age, experience or fitness levels the structure of interval training allows someone to perform at high-intensity for extended periods of time, which activates metabolic pathways that are not usually worked in continuous training. So, what does this mean?