What should our maximum heart rate be during exercise?

You have your runners on, your FitBit is charged, but now what?   Determining an optimal heart rate […]

Why Lifting Weights Can Be So Potent for Aging Well

Written by Gretchen Reynolds (New York Times) People who discovered that they enjoyed and felt capable of completing […]

Exercise vs. Drugs to Treat High Blood Pressure and Reduce Fat

Written by:  Gretchen Reynolds (Gretchen Reynolds writes the popular ‘Phys Ed’ column for the New York Times.) Exercise […]

Can exercise reverse the ageing process

Written by:  By Stephen Harridge & Norman LazarusKing’s College London While many in their 80s and 90s may […]

Exercise can be beneficial for sufferers of migraines or headaches

Recent studies have highlighted the beneficial effects of exercise for headache and migraine sufferers. Two recently published scientific […]

5 reasons why dancing is good for your health

Read the full article here: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/08/health/health-benefits-of-dancing/index.html

New study offers ‘strongest evidence’ yet that exercise helps prevent depression

Does physical activity reduce depression, or does depression reduce physical activity? It’s a quintessential chicken and egg scenario […]

Posture – Standing Proud

Good posture is more than just sitting up straight with shoulders back.  Improving your deportment can lead to […]

How can I start becoming more active with pain? 

When people have pain, it can be easy to slip into thinking about “how pain limits my activity”.  These […]

Posture: To relax or not to relax

Kids can contort their bodies around a chair in ways adults find uncomfortable or just wrong…..yet, adults are […]

No place for ageism in exercise prescription

Counter to advice in a recent Reader’s Digest article, the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) advises that exercise programs […]

Is bad posture the cause of back pain?

Interesting facts about exercise and back pain

You are NEVER too old to exercise

Helene Miller proves that you’re never too old to try something new!

Facts about exercise and back pain

The “drug” with the ability to improve your health without taking a pill

You have a “drug” in your medicine cabinet with the ability to improve your health without taking a […]

The benefits of Sleep

As you sleep, your body starts its night-shift work: Healing of damaged cells, boosting your immune system, recovering […]

Relax and Breathe

Learning how to breathe properly is an excellent way to reduce stress. This enhances blood flow and circulation […]

Raising the bar – Strength training at any age

No matter what your age, strength training can be beneficial to your health. Try some strength training for […]

Supercharge your exercise regime

Over time, the body becomes very good at adapting to regular physical activity and results will start to […]

How can I make it easier to wake up in the morning?

Feeling a bit groggy this morning? Especially because it’s a Monday? Do you have pain that seems to […]

Exercise can change brains for the better, study finds

“Even a healthy brain, past the age of 40, deteriorates by about 5 per cent per decade,” Firth […]

10 mindful minutes

When is the last time you did absolutely nothing for 10 whole minutes? Not texting, talking or even thinking? Mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe describes the transformative power of doing just that

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