Putting the FORCE back into your LIFE through group fitness programs

So you are doing your work outs well, and making a great effort, excellent!

You are starting to feel fitter and better as time goes by? You are starting to feel some of those endorphins kick in after training, but your weight may not be changing and your energy is not always as good as it could be?

This is where your Nutrition comes in to play. Unless your nutrition is good, you will not see great results!

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60 Seconds: Squats

50 Seconds: Step Lunges Read the rest of this entry »

What did you just think of when you read the word BOOTCAMP?

It’s too hard,                     Too much for me!

I can’t do it,                     I’ll Feel like a failure!

I’ll be yelled at,                Sworn at!

It’s too scary,                    Nasty instructors!

I’ll get injured,                  Be pushed too much!

I bet these are just some of the thoughts & feelings that come to mind the moment you think of “Bootcamp”. And you know what, we don’t blame you! From Private Benjamin with Goldie Hawn & Stripes with Bill Murray in the early 1980’s Read the rest of this entry »

When someone tells me what they want to achieve from the sweat & tears from their hard earned Strength and Fitness Training, they nearly always say that they want to Tone Up, or they want to look Toned & then I get shown the specific parts that need Toning. Unfortunately there are too many businesses in the health & fitness industry that only concern themselves with making money, without the concern of actually delivering on the promise that they make to their clients.

If someone wants to ‘Tone’ their stomach for example, what they are really saying is that they want muscle definition – they want to be able to see the muscles in their stomach. So the average Trainer promises to deliver the results & Read the rest of this entry »

We all want to feel ‘normal’ don’t we? Although we are all unique, you want to know that that our body is healthy & functioning like it should be. But what is ‘normal’, how do we know when we have achieved a ‘normal’ body type for example, when also have different body types & make-ups?

This is why the Body Mass Index, or BMI, was developed, to give us a guide to let us know if we are on the right track or not. The BMI uses 2 simple pieces of information about ourselves, our height & weight. A short person would weigh less than a tall person (if they are proportionally similar of course). However if the short person weighs the same as the tall person, then they could easily be deemed as overweight.

However it is important to understand that it is a guide & not to be used as a sole indicator for good or bad health. There are several variables that must be taken into account, the short person may weigh the same as the tall person, however it may not Read the rest of this entry »

Why is the word “Diet” such a dirty word? When somebody mentions losing weight, the first thought is always “oh no, I don’t want to go on a boring diet! I love my food & drink too much” & the second thought is usually “& then I have to run 10 painful kilometers every day!”. But why is the word ‘Diet’ only mentioned with weight loss, when the dictionary definition is

the foods eaten, as by a particular person or group. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/diet.

So if you eat 20 hamburgers for breakfast, that is your diet! Not a particularly good one, but that is your dietary intake diet never-the-less.

What if I was to tell you that you can still eat amazing foods, drink world class wine & lose weight. It’s true, you just Read the rest of this entry »

Keeping fit and healthy is all about your body right? Wrong. Mind and body are interlinked in so many ways you wouldn’t believe!

Synergy is described in Wikipedia as

Synergy, in general, may be defined as two or more agents working together to produce a result not obtainable by any of the agents independently.

So when life begins to get on top of us, why not use this to our advantage. Read the rest of this entry »

Although most people will hate to hear it, ‘running is the best form of exercise for burning energy’, bar none!

Someone running at 12km per hour will burn a massive 4141 kilojoules per hour, compared to high level sports such as playing football (2452 Kj) or high impact aerobics & swimming (2146 Kj). It also has the added benefit of the ‘negative feedback effect’ where by the more body fat you have the harder it is it run & the more energy you burn.

How come then, if it’s SO GOOD for you & perfect for burning fat, why doesn’t everyone do it? BECAUSE IT’S Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most frequent comments that I hear from new clients is “I just can’t do sit-ups, or push-ups or squats”. We all want to get stronger don’t we? Wouldn’t you like to know how to be able to do these exercises so you can feel like you’re making improvements towards functional strength & injury prevention &/or rehabilitation?

Before considering going into detail of the techniques of these exercises, the first thing that needs to be covered is; ‘how to activate your core muscles to provide the foundation for the working muscles’.

Without a doubt, the most important muscle groups of the entire body are your deep core muscles, namely the Transverse Abdominals (TA) & Pelvic Floor muscles. Why? Let’s look at a simple daily action of picking up a box off the Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t know where to start when planning a healthy eating plan?

Below is an example of someones daily meals that easily covers all the bases when considering;

• What to eat & when
• How to include all of the 5 foods groups
• Tasty suggestions
• Increasing metabolism for high energy & weight loss &
• http://lifeforcetraining.com.au/shopping-list-for-food-diary/ for the shopping list for every meal.

Example-1 of Food Diary