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These 9 Foods Will Help You Lose Weight

Achieve your weight loss goals by adding these nutritious foods to your diet.

Bag The Benefits Of Cross-Training

Use your body in a different way with cross-training and reap the full benefits of your fitness regime.

What You Should Be Eating Post-workout

10 foods to eat after working out.

Wise Up To Exercise

Even a single work-out may have beneficial effects on a wide range of brain functions.

5 weight loss strategies to avoid

Made a New Year’s Resolution to shed some kilos? Here are some weight loss traps to avoid.

The Negatives Of Sitting and Exercises To Help

The science is in and it’s bad news for most of us – sitting is a bummer.

Kiwibums’ global charity cycle for suicide prevention

Two New Zealander’s have cycled from London to NZ to raise money for suicide prevention.

Celebrating International Parkrun Day

Parkrun is a deceptively simple concept – it’s a free, weekly, 5km timed run. This Saturday 7 October marks Parkrun’s 13th birthday.

What can an exercise challenge teach us about resilience?

MiNDFOOD fitness writer Anne-Marie Cook explains why putting your body through a challenge ultimately yields up mental benefits.

Equip yourself for adventure

Going on a hike? Here are seven products you need for your adventure.

The world’s craziest workouts

Immerse yourself in another culture’s weird and wild exercise practices.

Nigella’s secret weight loss revealed

Despite a healthy appetite, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has revealed her recent weight loss is down to stretching and yoga. […]

Yoga for Weight Loss

Known for it’s ability to increase strength and flexibility, yoga can also aid weight loss. Here are 5 simple poses to get you started.

A Naturopath’s Guide to Surviving the Silly Season

How can you survive the silly season a little less scathed and still able to enter a new year feeling fabulous? BioCeuticals Naturopath, Corinne Bett gives us her top five health survival tips.

This is how your body reacts after just two weeks without exercise

Regular exercise is encouraged for everyone but not everyone can stick to a routine that includes a regimented fitness regime. […]

Exercise can beat disease, but you do need a lot more of it

Five to seven times more activity needed than World Health Organisation recommends, Australian researchers say

Smart Moves: Tone and Strengthen

Take a step towards a leaner and more toned body with these simple exercises. Perform each in turn and then repeat the circuit up to five times. You can increase your repetitions as your strength builds.

Believe it or not: exercise does more good if you think it will

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: people who believe working out is good for them experience more health benefits

Always read the label: US toughens rules for packaged food information

First major changes in 20 years focus on calories, serving size, added sugars and vitamins

Best exercises for arm strength

Targeting the two major muscle groups of the upper arm, these exercises to flex the triceps and biceps will power your posture and provide the added strength to work your way through a busy day.

Step By Step

They hear our heartbeats and sum up our strides – health tracking devices and apps are popular, but do they give us an accurate picture of how much exercise we’re doing?

Work those muscles now

New study finds that working our muscles now, gives us a huge advantage later on in life.

The low-down on high intensity training

Trainer and author Tiffiny Hall says that High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is one of the most effective ways to get fit fast.

Time For Tabata

Fire up your metabolism with this super-short, high-intensity workout. Known as Tabata training, each exercise is performed for just 20 seconds with a 10-second rest in between. Four minutes of these moves is all you need.

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