Hopefully, your answer is YES! Participating in regular physical activity can have a significant positive effect on the management of type II diabetes by helping maintain or manage blood glucose levels while decreasing risk of diabetes complications. It also has a range of other benefits...
Written by Exercise Physiologist, Alex Parsons. Did you know that diabetes is the fastest growing chronic condition in Australia, with 1 in 4 adults currently living with Diabetes or Pre-Diabetes? It is all too common that I have conservations with individuals who have been diagnosed with diabetes...
"Boosting your immune system" and improving your immunity seems to be all the rage in the media and the key to every second health kick or self-improvement. Most of these fads have little too no significant evidence behind them and the primary goal is to...
It’s a fact that Australians are on the larger side, one survey showed that 2 out of 3 Australians are either overweight or obese. Another fact is that we can all struggle to shed the kilos, and most of the time this is because the...
So…what exactly is calisthenics? Well, basically, it’s a fancy word for body weight based exercises or movements. Stuff you can do at home with minimal or no equipment. Sounds too simple to be better than going to the gym? Well actually, one of the main reasons...
We all know that exercise is important. Unfortunately, we don’t really know what that actually means. Our bodies are designed to move. If they weren’t, we would look very different physically to what we do now. Think the aliens from Mars Attacks…heads attached to little bodies...
A London study conducted by Brunel University has found that listening to Marvin Gaye’s rendition of ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ while being active, resulted in stimulation in the region of the brain associated with easing fatigue. Not only did the study reveal that participants...
Ever wondered what causes insulin resistance? IR is when their body does not respond properly to the hormone insulin. The pancreas produces the hormone insulin. When we eat food that contain carbohydrates they are broken down into glucose in the blood. The function of insulin...
When winter comes around, we feel like staying indoors and snuggling up with a hot cup of cocoa by the fireplace…. While this great, what’s even better is getting out into the cold and moving your body! We all know exercise is great, however exercising in...
Are you like the average active person? That even a when a minor injury occurs, it will sideline you from a regular workout routine? One you niggle your back, twist your knee, experience shin splits or any other type of injury – all of a sudden...