fitness

Five of the best: Health & Fitness Apps

From private yoga classes to guided meditations, your iPhone provides you with everything you need to get up, get out and get moving. In this week’s Health & Wellbeing blog, Lizzy Wood brings you the five apps that help keep her on track.

Get Fit at Home – Fitness gallery

It’s hard to find the motivation for exercise when you’re busy. Try to find 30 minutes and do a workout in the comfort of your own home. Personal trainer Nardia Norman shares some exercises to get you off the couch and into fitness.

Chop and Change – Karate fitness

Karate student Briar Fleming will be competing in the Shoto World Cup in Bangkok in August. Here, she shares how the martial art has shaped her perspective and demonstrates some of the principal poses.

Introduction to Kundalini Yoga

Singer and yoga teacher Kathryn McCusker reveals how practising kundalini; the yoga of awareness, can help us unlock our creative sides and create a sense of balance.

6 stretches to warm up and cool down

6 exercises to increase your strength

Got a stopwatch? It’s time to work out to the clock. Aim to repeat each exercise for the recommended time, adding another 30 seconds as you get stronger.

Physically fit students top of the class

Getting students to exercise more might not just address obesity issues but also improve their test scores, MiNDFOOD reports.

Man boobs

Fitness expert Monique Rana talks about some solutions to a problem becoming more and more of an issue for men throughout the western world – ‘moobs’, or man boobs, MiNDFOOD Radio presents.

Sneaky strategies to get kids moving

To get that texting, tweeting, gaming child up and exercising, a new book suggests parents try sneaking fitness into the day-to-day routine, reports MiNDFOOD.

Exercise protects the brain

Two new studies provide more evidence that regular aerobic exercise not only staves off the problems with thinking and memory that often come with age, but it can actually help turn back the clock on brain ageing, MiNDFOOD reports.

Arms race

Tone, sculpt and strengthen your arms with these simple exercises – all you need are light hand weights and a good posture for optimum results, MiNDFOOD reports.

Find the right gym for you

One person’s dream workout venue can be another’s waste of money. Here are a few tips on how to find just the right facility to add inspiration to your perspiration.

Why Diets Fail

Try these basic Cognitive Behaviour Therapy tools to avoid diet traps and revitalise your exercise and meal habits this new year.

2010 workout trends

Money, or the lack of it, changes everything, and that includes how people will be working out in 2010.

8 Steps to Easy Fitness

8 Steps to Easy Fitness, brought to you by MiNDFOOD.

State of calm

State of calm: yoga poses, brought to you by MiNDFOOD.

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