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Take your fitness to the next level! Our Fitness section has loads of articles offering fitness tips, advice and info to keep you informed and motivated
Creating Sustainable New Year's Fitness Resolutions
We’ve all experienced the highs and lows of setting New Year’s resolutions – how the motivation of the new year fades with each passing day until you try to forget you ever set those goals.
Sweat Smart: Expert Workout Tips and Plans for Maximum Results
The goal of working out, regardless of the modality, is to stimulate, not annihilate. So, learn to push yourself just beyond your comfort zone but not to the point where each workout feels like an impossible task with these workout tips and plans for maximum results.
Discover Fun and Creative Ways to Stay Active
For many of us, physical exercise is a chore. We feel like there’s no real benefit unless we’re sweating bullets or panting for breath. But staying active can mean so much more than a trip to the gym or an afternoon run.
How Physiotherapy Can Enhance Your Training Program
When it comes to exercise and sports, recovery plays a vital role in achieving optimal
performance. It is just as important as the training sessions themselves. Without proper
recovery, our bodies won't have the opportunity to adapt and improve.
Yoga for Beginners: 10 Poses to Get You Started
These 10 poses are a great place to start if you're new to yoga. They'll help you build strength, flexibility, and calmness in your body and mind. So why not give them a try? You may just find that you love yoga!
The Most Glute-Engaging Exercises to Build Your Glutes and Butt
Have you ever promised yourself that you eventually will build your glutes and get that round, amazing butt? We have prepared a set of the most glute-engaging exercises that will shape your bum like no other.
Stop Neglecting Back Day!
Leg day, arm day, abs day… that sounds like the trainings that you should be focusing on. After all, they will give you the most desired results but here is why you should never skip the back day anymore!
How To Set Fitness Goals To Challenge Yourself
Setting a fitness goal is an important step in understanding where you want to get to and the focus needed to reach it. Without having a goal, how will you have a plan to get to where you want to be? Whether it's a simple goal, ambitious one or step by step with a reward attached, each will help you to determine how to get there.
10 Tips To Balance Your Social Life And Exercise
Trying to balance having a social life and keeping active, is totally possible! Here's our 10 top tips.
Tips and tricks to get the family moving!
Get the whole family moving with these family exercise tips to keep your body moving and help improve both physical and mental health for all.
12 Of The Best Home Workouts You Can Do During Lockdown
Motivation is hard at the best of times but during a lockdown, it can be even harder. Lockdown is no holiday though and your fitness routine shouldn't go on one during it so here's 12 live workouts you can do from home during lockdown
Why Do I Get Post Workout Muscle Soreness
You might find after jumping back into exercise and completing a hard workout, your body is left feeling achy and sore. There’s a reason for this, and it is called DOMS!
Rest and recovery is part of training too
We all know that exercise plays a huge roll in our overall health and wellbeing and daily exercise has long been associated with better quality sleep, yet not all of us get an optimal amount of sleep each night or we have poor quality of sleep.
10 Effective Workout Moves You Can Do From Home
If this past year has taught us anything, it’s that many of our everyday activities can be done effectively from home. Here are 10 of the best workout movements around, from abdominal moves to leg exercises to arm workouts.
Benefits of Combining Weight Training and Yoga
Including weight training and yoga into your weekly workout routine can provide many benefits for your body and mind - the two forms of exercise compliment each other perfectly!
Kayla Itsines Changes Name Of Her Infamous BBG Programs
Launched in 2014, the BBG Programs from Kayla Itsines that have inspired millions around the world has been renamed to "use language that feels more positive for women today" Kayla said.
15 Kiwi fitness influencers all gym addicts should follow
Whether you love it or hate it, social media has the immense power to inspire and motivate us. It’s the perfect place to pick up recipes, exercise tips and tricks, and follow other health junkies on their journeys to fitness.
Introducing the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro
This new launch marks the latest addition to Huawei’s award-winning WATCH GT 2 Series, one of the best-selling smartwatches in the world. With a rugged yet premium design, advanced sports tracking, professional health monitoring, two-week battery life and wireless charging, the new HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 Pro is set to be a big hit with fitness fanatics and casual users alike.
From Aquafit to Zumba - our fitness class round-up
So, you’ve found a new fitness centre, bought the workout clothes you’ve been dreaming of, and you’re ready to sign up for some classes. Aaaaand then you check the schedule and realise there are way more options here than you thought there would be. If you’re unsure of where to start with exercise classes, we’ve got a quick and handy guide to pretty much all the classes you can find on a gym timetable.
Maintain Your Peak Performance Like An Athlete
Being a top athlete isn’t only skill, having a proper recovery routine is vital to staying in peak shape. Having enough sleep and good nutrition can go a long way to getting you that extra 1%. See what a couple of NZ athletes do to recover.
Flat-Friendly Fitness - 8 Exercises that Won’t Annoy Your Neighbours
Want the ease of a home work out but hate disturbing your downstairs neighbours? No worries. Check out our favourite low-impact cardio exercises that you can do from the comfort of your own home.
Fight yourself fit - a basic guide to martial arts
Martial arts use the muscles of the entire body, and physical stamina and strength are boosted. But there are also important benefits for the mind: reaction times and balance can be improved, and practising the arts can have therapeutic effects on other areas, such as self-control.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN TIGHTS TO HELP AID LEG MUSCLE RECOVERY
The ‘tights’ market has become very saturated. From ‘latté fitness’ tights to compression tights, it’s important to know what to look for to cover your needs. The most technical tights in the industry are compression tights. They come with the benefit of speeding up your recovery time and supporting your leg muscles.
10min Full Upper Body Workout with MadFit
Here's a 10min Upper Body Workout you can do at home! Targeting the back, arms, chest, and shoulders in only 10 minutes. Grab a set of dumbbells and workout with YouTube star MadFit!
Skipping and Thruster Workout
Try this little workout to get the heart rate up and the legs feeling a little heavy at the end. It features skipping and thrusters (squat to overhead) to get all the different muscles activated.
25min Full Body Workout with Sarah's Day
Get ready to get sweaty sissy! The ultimate full body, fat burning, no equipment needed workout with Aussie YouTube star and one half of The Health Code Podcast Sarah's Day! This entire workout can be done in less than 25mins in the comfort of your own home!
The clothes you wear can affect your workout
Whether you're working out from home or working out at the gym, what you're wearing can play a big part in how you feel for that workout and how motivated you may be to attack it. Another big bonus is actually feeling comfortable in them at the same time for whatever your workout entails.
Under Armour Project Rock 3
When it comes to partnerships, there's few as big as the one with Under Armour and The Rock. The latest PR3 shoe builds on the success of the previous 2 releases under 'Project Rock' and is built to handle almost any workout.
New Boardwalk for Mt Eden
One of Auckland's most popular volcanic cones has a new boardwalk and viewing platform with views across the city. A perfect spot for the 'gram and making those runs around the top a little easier.
Workout with Kirsty Godso
Nike Training Club showcased workouts online so you can try them at home. Nike Master Trainer Kirsty Godso leads you through a 40min workout bringing her signature energy to high intensity training and cardio. No equipment needed!
Yoga with Nikki Ralston
Join Nikki Ralston for a yoga practice designed to bring balance to the body, mind and heart that's super doable to do while at home! This practice is focused around cultivating the static quality within.
A Beginner's Guide to Squash with John Fletcher
Squash Auckland’s General Manager, A-Grade Player, and Lifelong Squash Enthusiast John Fletcher explains why you should be playing the world’s healthiest sport and how to get started.
A Guide to Running with Rachel Grunwell
Personal trainer Rachel Grunwell, who coaches runners, and is also a yoga teacher who specialises in working with athletes, talks about getting started with running and how to stay motivated.
11 Workout Tips for Beginners
How often should I do it? What kind of exercise should I do? If you have these questions then these 11 workout tips for beginners might be worth the read!
AN AMRAP FOR THE ROAD
In our busy lives between work, travel, kids and the wet weather (you know it!), it can be hard to squeeze in the time to get to the gym or do a workout of any kind. As long as you do something to move each day. Here's a workout for the road.
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