Starting your weight loss programme

When you start out exercising to lose weight, forget intensities, heart rates, and training zones. Just get out there and move. If you start by pushing yourself to the limit every day you may not last very long so take a long-term look at your goals. Start by just getting your body used to exercising again.

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Nutrition and food

Learn more about what food you put into your body, how it effects weight loss and energy. We look at the top foods to avoid for weight loss plus the top foods for healthy eating!

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Nutrition for Marathon / long distance / fun run running

As a runner, your diet is important not only for maintaining good health, but also to promote peak performance. Proper nutrition and hydration can make or break a workout or race, and also greatly affects how runners feel, work and think.

A balanced diet for healthy runners should include these essentials: carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Here are some basic guidelines for a nutritious, healthy balance.

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Nutrition for muscle growth

Learn more about why protein is essential for muscle growth? What you should be eating in order to maximise muscle growth? What foods to eat to maximise carbohydrates and protein?

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Obesity and related illnesses

Overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions in Australia. Many tend to look at it as a physically unattractive, cosmetic problem without considering the many related illnesses that go along with it. But the health ramifications are far more serious even though the psychology of weight image does come into play physically due to how you feel about yourself.

Don't become a statistic, you can make the changes to help yourself.

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