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Functional training: The only fitness regime you’ll ever need

If running for the bus, lifting a suitcase or bending over leaves you short of breath then you need functional training. Here’s everything you need to know about the most comprehensive type of exercise out there.

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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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Look no hands!

Nothing to see here… just a dog, flying a plane.

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Resistance Band Workout

Pilates is the perfect way to release any kinks in the body associated with sitting at a desk. Adding a resistance band will help you achieve maximum results in half the time.

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How to train your brain for weight loss

You can train your brain to like healthy foods instead of craving high-calorie foods, say researchers in the US.

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Walk fast to fitness

Get fit fast and have fun by walking with bursts of intensity and resistance just three times a week in the great outdoors with your friends.

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Five ways to ease back pain naturally

One quarter of the population suffers from back pain. Here are five simple steps to alleviate pain and strengthen your spine naturally.

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Resistance band fitness workout

Simple & inexpensive, resistance training is a great way to use small space for an entire body workout, anywhere, any time.

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Military-style preschool toughens up its students

A Taiwanese kindergarten uses marine drills to strengthen children’s minds and bodies from a young age.

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FITNESS: Shape up

As the weather warms up, so, too, does our 
desire to tone our bodies and shed any unwanted winter weight gain. Weight training is a great way to do it, we show you how.

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Get First Aid Smart

Do you have a first aid kit at home? Daniel Code, training manage from the South Australia Red Cross College, gets us up to speed on First Aid safety

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Fitness Revival

People who are consistent with their training are the ones who are the most successful. The key to weight training is doing it two to three days a week. Mix in 30 minutes of cardio a few times a week, and you’ll experience increased energy levels and wellbeing.

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Strength to Strength fitness gallery

Resistance training doesn’t bulk you up, but it does give your muscles definition. Do these simple exercises indoors or out.

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Cooking for life

Renowned fine dining chef Rob Auger has taken on a new challenge – teaching young homeless trainees to become chefs and baristas, in order to avoid a life on the street. We chat to him about the unique and life-changing concept behind STREAT.

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Stopping homelessness, the delicious way

CEO and founder of STREAT, Rebecca Scott provides hospitality training to young people who are on the brink of homelessness.

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FITNESS: Taut, toned and terrific

What’s your reason for not exercising today? No time to get the gym? Too wet outside to go for a run? No energy after a long day? Can’t afford that dance class? Well, it’s time to put all those excuses aside: Personal trainer Darren Hogan has devised an all-over toning workout that you can do anywhere, anytime, and it takes only 30 minutes 
(skip that TV show, wake up a bit earlier, 
or take a lunchbreak – yes, you can find 
the time somewhere).

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Mastermind

Stop ageing in its tracks by caring for your brain. Follow these seven steps for a long and healthy life, MiNDFOOD reports.

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The Makeup School

Gabrielle Jones and Dianne Ensor from The Makeup School in Auckland on make-up trends and training courses, on MiNDFOOD.

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Five minutes with: Jeff Losito

We question Jeff Losito, Bioelements International Training Director, about the latest Biolements products and treatments and his first-hand knowledge of the professional skin care industry, on MiNDFOOD.

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Five minutes with: Sherrill Towner

Sherrill Towner, international training manger for Dr. LeWinn’s, offers advice on cosmeceuticals, MiNDFOOD reports.

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