Tips and advice for beginners new to exercising with NZ Real Health.
When you’re busy it can be hard to find the time to exercise. As a business owner and a mum to two young girls, I get it! However, getting your body moving is important, so if you training sessions aren’t happening, you need to shift your mindset and perhaps try a different approach. Train short …
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Finding a decent sports bra when you’ve got a large bust can be difficult – if not near impossible! For those of us who have big boobs, exercising can be really uncomfortable, and I’m starting to realise how much of a deterrent this can be for some activities, especially anything high impact, upside down or …
QUESTION: Do I need to train hard to get results?ANSWER: It depends.Figuring out your goals and nailing your reason why helps; also having an idea of where you want to be in the future. One of the key reasons people don’t reach their fitness goals is a lack of consistency. So how do you need …
Ask Ange: Do I need to train hard to get results? Read More ยป
๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ ๐๐๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐๐ง’๐ญ ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ? I’ve been taking myself through my own 8-Week Find Your Balance programme which aims for sustainable results across nutrition, fitness and wellbeing and today measured my halfway point results for the end of the fourth …
Find Your Balance challenge update – Week 4 – Half way there! Read More ยป
Feeling unmotivated with your training now that winter is here? It’s common for group fitness class numbers to dwindle, and gym-goers and outdoor exercisers to pause their routine in the colder months. But just because it’s colder, darker in the morning/evening and sometimes rainy outside doesn’t mean you need to stop moving your body! Here …
My workout of the day ๐๐ช I almost deleted these pics. The critical me saw the rounded 1-year-postnatal belly, maternity bra that doesn’t quite fit right any more (thanks to unpredictable breastfeeding boobs!), not in my workout clothes, pool inflatables and toys all over the show. Not social media worthy… Maybe? Not the chiselled personal …
Sick of making the same New Year’s resolutions every year and getting off to a great start only to have them dwindle away by mid-February? You’re not alone. Whether your resolution is to lose weight, eat healthier, learn a new language or stockpile some savings, recent research suggested that just 9.2% of people studied felt …
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Last Christmas, even though our daughter had just been walking for six or so months we decided to get a big family present that year and buy a trampoline. Get outdoors, have some fresh air and family time, develop coordination and bone strength… What’s not to like about trampolines? I wanted one so much when …
Although we would like to think that Kiwi kids are an outdoorsy and active bunch of children, statistics are increasingly beginning to show otherwise. The 2015/2016 New Zealand Health Survey showed that 11% of children (aged 2-14) were obese with a further 21% being overweight. This is partially resulting from inadequate levels of physical activity …
Have you thought about signing up for an obstacle course event? If you enjoy a sense of adventure, variety in your training and potentially being pushed to your limits, they can be a great challenge. Tough Mudder is a mud run like no other; with no podiums, winners or clocks to race against, emphasis is …
Fitness – like just about anything these days – goes through fads or fashions. One of the latest to gain traction is HIIT, or High Intensity Interval Training. Although the actual concept of interval training is nothing new, HIIT is now being marketed in pretty much every gym, it’s all over internet-based training sessions, and …
We hear it all the time from yoga teachers, doctor’s offices, pregnancy books and health magazines; yoga is supposed to be one of the only physical forms of exercise that is safe for everyone – and more literally, every body. So why are an increasing number of people finding themselves getting injured while doing yoga? …