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At Vision Personal Training we use group training as a way of complementing your Personal Training sessions with extra activity during your week and added variety offering more than 10+ sessions a week. Group Training provides members with a motivating environment where you can make new friends creating a positive circle of influence and it enables you to maintain exercise habits long-term. Marketing guru, Seth Godin, refers to this as creating a tribe - each of us wants to belong to a group, which connects us to others who share similar traits and characteristics.

I recently had a fabulous week of skiing in northern Japan.

Successful fat loss can be understood as a simple equation: calories in < calories out. That is, we are consuming less calories than what we are burning.

TECHNIQUE IN EXERCISE

TECHNIQUE IN EXERCISE

High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) involves repeated repetitions of high-intensity exercise lasting 10 to 120 seconds followed by rest or reduced exercise intensity.

Inflammation is the body's immediate response to tissue damage, germs, physical injury, and dangerous chemicals. The tissue around the ankle joint, for example, becomes inflamed following a common sprain. Chronic inflammation -  an important risk factor of cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke - results from chronic metabolite stress due to obesity, insulin resistance, high blood pressure and cigarette smoking.

Some of the simplest foods are sometimes the healthiest. Cinnamon is a popular kitchen spice used to flavour oats, desserts, coffee and hot chocolate. It also promotes insulin metabolism and improves blood sugar control.

Australian scientists, led by Matthew Schubert from Griffith University, found that supplementing caffeine 90 minutes before and 30 minutes after a one-hour bike ride (65 percent of maximum effort) increased caloric expenditure and fat oxidation more than exercise (plus placebo, fake caffeine) alone.