Exercise tips, workout ideas and more to help you with your training whether it’s at the gym, in your home or doing a sport.
Children have so much energy it can be hard to keep up with them, but it’s often a struggle for mums to fit in their own exercise when kids are around. Here are some ideas to help busy mums keep up your fitness training. Exercise while they’re busy It may be tempting to do housework …
Made a great start with your exercise or nutrition plan but fell off the bandwagon and struggling to get back on track? You’re not alone. They say for the majority of people it takes six weeks to make or break a habit, but habit-formation aside, if you’ve adopted a fitness or diet regime that doesn’t …
Feeling like you could use a little help getting your health, wellbeing and fitness on track? Take a look at the latest technology, tech gear and websites to help you out! Under Armour launches UA Record app UA Record simplifies your personal health data with fitness tracking tools, connects you to your digital community and …
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Rope walking has been around for thousands of years in various forms, but over the past few decades, a challenging yet rewarding new sport called slacklining has evolved. We had a chat with Patrick Stern from the Slackline Shop to find out more about slacklining and how you can give it a go. What is …
Keep calm and move with this new holistic workout! It’s a fusion of dynamic meditation and dance that’s here to stay. We all have days when we feel rushed off our feet, right? Chakradance is an energising way to combat stress, stay grounded, and increase your heart rate in a whole new way. A complete …
Personal trainer Ange Noy is pregnant with her first child and trying to maintain her fitness level as best as possible while navigating sometimes conflicting advice from her endocrinologist, GP, midwife, family, friends, assorted fitness instructors, online forums and phone apps. When you fall pregnant, how do you keep fit while doing what’s best for …
Daily workouts aren’t enough to combat the health dangers of having a desk job, explains personal trainer and nutrition and lifestyle coach Nicola Smith. Exercising for 30-minutes a day is great – but if you spend the rest of the time sitting at your desk – you’re still at risk of a wide range of …
Finding the time and motivation to exercise can be a challenge before you have a baby, let alone after your bundle of joy has arrived. Here are some of our top tips to help you get back on track with exercise after pregnancy. Take it slowly Regardless of what exercise level you were at prior …
Purchasing exercise equipment to use at home can be super convenient and a great investment for your health and fitness. But heavy weights can easily turn into doorstops and treadmills can become clothes horses if you don’t use them often enough which is a bit of a money waster! So should you buy exercise gear …
Budding sports stars have become recipients at this year’s AMP Scholarships National Awards Evening held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on 4 December. AMP New Zealand Managing Director Jack Regan was delighted to award $200,000 in scholarships to passionate and determined New Zealanders striving to ‘do their thing’. AMP’s Chief Customer Officer, Jeff Ruscoe, …
We love trying out new kinds of exercise and our editor, Ange, recently had the opportunity to road test a Barrefigure class as part of a group lesson with Marysa Dalton, New Zealand School of Dance graduate, former dancer for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and founder of the new Barrefigure studio in Ponsonby, Auckland. …
Get health and fitness news from around the world and in Aotearoa: Survey aims to find out whether pregnant women getting enough key nutrients Pregnant women are constantly bombarded with information on what they should be eating – but there’s very little research into what New Zealand women are actually eating. Massey University Masters student …