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When women think about strength training they see huge muscular women with bulging muscles and decide that is definitely not for them. The truth is women just don’t have the testosterone required to easily build large amounts of muscle. Yes, it’s possible but usually there’s an element of drug use such as steroids required to [...]
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With the summer fast approaching we are once again thinking about the size and shape of our bodies. It’s at this time of year that people start to think about what they will look like in a bikini. Sometimes when we look in the mirror what we see isn’t what we’d like to see. Many [...]
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After much begging and pleading from my clients I’m going to bite the bullet and create my own Pilates product. After reviewing one Pilates For Beginners program after another I can’t find one that I’d recommend for complete beginners. Sure there are thousands of different books and DVD’s on the market many of them written [...]
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A new study has revealed that skinny teenage girls may be running the risk of developing the brittle bone condition osteoporosis in later life. Research from the Children Of The 90s project claims that not only muscle is important in building bones during the teenage years, but also body fat has a significant role to [...]
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Once again we are back to January. Christmas is over and we’re all thinking less about Santa and more about how to get rid of all that extra weight we’ve put on guzzling Christmas pudding and mince pies. To help us,as usual at this time of year, there is a rash of new celebrity workouts [...]
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The Royal Veterinary College has recently been awarded a grant of over £100,000 to fund a study on the beneficial effects of exercise for horses and ponies that contract laminitis. Laminitis is very painful condition that affects the feet, mainly occurring in ponies that are turned out on grazing that is too rich and lush [...]
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Belfast Leisure Centre has become one of the first to adapt Workout Equipment within their gym for wheelchair users so that they can exercise alongside the more able bodied. The new equipment, which includes several types of resistance machine, has been adapted so that the normal seat can move out of the way leaving enough [...]
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Fitness Wales, a foundation set up were 40 years ago to get people exercising and to encourage more people to train as fitness instructors, say that you shouldn’t wait until New Year’s Day to put in place your New Year resolution to lose some weight. The run up to Christmas means that most of us [...]
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The high level of staff absence within the NHS is currently under the microscope as government and managers try to see what they can do to reduce the number of days staff have off sick each year, which costs the NHS millions. The average NHS staff member has up to 10.7 working days off sick [...]
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It’s well known that regular exercise has definite health benefits no matter what age you are, and a study has recently indicated that men can significantly reduce their risk of having a stroke by exercising. Men must however exercise at a moderate to vigorous level to gain these benefits — for example playing tennis or [...]
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