The Benefits of Boxing for Exercise
While boxing is a high-profile sport that divides opinion, it can also be used purely as exercise for fitness. This involves no concerns about long-term injuries from receiving punches while offering an excellent means to get fit. Here are a few of the many health benefits of boxing for exercise. Improving Your Cardiovascular Health The [...]
Everyday Fitness — Supporting Your Gym Sessions
So you’ve started going regularly to the gym and you’ve established a programme with a trainer. Congratulations — it’s the single most valuable thing you can do to get fit, whether your aim is to build muscles or lose weight. That doesn’t mean, though, it’s OK to be a couch potato the rest of the [...]
High Intensity Interval Training — Less Time, More Effect for Weight Loss
There are many approaches to exercising for weight-loss, but one that’s growing in popularity is high intensity interval training (HIIT). It’s received a boost this month with research, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, which suggests that HIIT may be 28.5% more effective than alternative approaches. What Is HIIT? HIIT is an approach [...]
Six Small Lifestyle Changes That Can Bring Big Results
So we’ve all overindulged at Christmas, and we’ve all promised ourselves a “new year, new me”. Hopefully that’s going well, but we all know the real challenge isn’t making resolutions — it’s sticking to them long term. Nothing can replace a well-planned exercise and diet regime, but small lifestyle changes can support it. Here are [...]
Enjoying Christmas Without Going Flabby
It’s not easy to stay fit over the festive season. What with the parties and dinners in the run-up, the overindulgence and TV marathons at Christmas itself, celebrating New Year — the temptation is to throw fitness to the wind and start again in January. It doesn’t have to be a choice between celebrating and [...]
How Does Going to the Gym Benefit your Mental Health?
The majority of people go to the gym in order to achieve physical goals. Common aims are losing weight, building muscle, or strengthening the heart and lungs. All of these are fantastic reasons for staying active! Exercise is also one of the most effective ways to improve your mental health, in a number of ways! [...]