For people with long-term health issues, regular exercise can be a daunting prospect. Just getting to a gym or a fitness class can be an effort, let alone actually putting a body that is constantly in pain through yet more stress.
However, advice from health, fitness and medical professionals all suggest that doing regular exercise can help alleviate many of the symptoms and pain suffered by people with chronic conditions.
H.I.I.T stands for High Intensity Interval Training and the idea behind this type of fitness session is to work as hard as you can for a set period of time, with very little rest in between each set. It is a great option because it can be adapted to suit your fitness level and fitness requirements.
The Free Weight Gym tends to attract people who are very serious about their exercise programme. Found on the same floor as the Kelsey Kerridge reception and Climbing Wall, the Free Weights Gym is an area dedicated to people who want to use free weights to build muscle, tone existing muscle and develop strength in parts or all of their body.
The sandbag – it is often the overlooked piece of kit on the gym floor, largely because people are unaware of how effective this simple piece of equipment can be. Go to the functional fitness area of the Outlooks Gym and you will see it – a bag shaped like a duffel bag. But just how challenging can that be? Well, the answer is ‘very’.
The least we can do is make sure that we start each day well. If you can take control of the manner in which you start each day then, by the time you hit the study or workplace, you will be in the right frame of mind to face whatever our 24/7 society can throw at us.
This week, we thought we would offer some words of advice to people who are looking to shed a few pounds and swap a few inches of fat for some well-toned muscle. But this is no article on what you should be eating, but more about the attitude we adopt towards food.
Skipping or jump-rope as it has now become known as, is a perfect workout to tone abs, legs and arms in the most space, time and cost-effective way. Whether you want something new to try at the gym; a simple exercise to do in your lunch break or a simple way of keeping fit while travelling – jump rope is the perfect answer.
Boxing is one of the best activities for all-round fitness. Whether it is a boxercise class or a punchbag workout, it provides a high-intensity workout that helps with weight management as well as aerobic and anaerobic fitness. Not only do the shoulders and chest area get worked but also the abdominals and legs.
For the past few years we have been more or less constantly bombarded with the idea of mindfulness. It’s sort of ironic that everywhere we look – Facebook, Twitter, online websites, health magazines etc – we are told to be ‘mindful’, when actually what we need to do is to stop being bombarded with instructions about mindfulness and instead be given time to be mindful.
It’s holiday time.Time to down tools, walk out of the office and not think about anything except tan-lines and where to get the next glass of sangria.
The problem is, if you are anything like me, two days into your relaxing holiday, the muscles start to twitch, the legs feel full of energy and you know you are beginning to miss your daily work out.
