Healthy Eating on the Go
By Zoe Bingley on
Healthy eating can be tricky to maintain. While we may eat balanced meals at home, upholding the standard can be hard when we are out on weekends or during a busy work week.
It is easy to be tempted by the cheap and nutritionally empty food when we are busy and on-the-run. “Fast food” is quick, effortless and hard to resist, especially when in the company of someone who is not health-conscious.
However, the problem with fast food chains is that they promote overeating. This prevents you from digesting your food properly and is generally an unhealthy way of living.
While it is unrealistic to stick to a strict diet all of the time, it’s important to take note of exactly what we are putting into our bodies, and choose the best options...
What is Work Life Balance?
By Golden Door on
1. What is work/life balance?
Golden Door philosophy centres around finding a healthy balance of the mind, body and the spirit. To achieve a healthy work life balance often means acknowledging where we are currently positioned in life – how much time do we actually spend working or doing work-like things, versus the time we spend relaxing, being creative, enjoying laughs with loved ones. A healthy balance is finding your perfect combination of these two areas in your life.
2. Why is it important?
People will often talk about finding “balance” only after they have realised that there is a strong disparity between how they are spending their time and how they want to be spending it. There are some very telling signs, physically and...
The Right Footwear and Tips When Choosing Shoes
By Sam Christie on
With Dry July ahead, it’s a great opportunity to start a new exercise regime to support your new health lifestyle. But if you are just getting back into running or getting into it for the first time, you need to really think about what shoes you are going to wear.
When we are running, it’s our footwear that is making contact with the ground so our shoes play a pivotal role controlling the high impact forces that pass from the ground to the lower limbs at each step.
Sam Christie- a Sports Podiatrist from PodMED Podiatry, Double Bay- has seen potentially pathological footwear all too often. “People let their footwear get too old and compressed or women are running in fashionable casual trainers. Don’t buy on aesthetic alone or assume...
5 Cleansing Yoga Poses
By Claire Obeid on
There is a reason why we feel the need to clean our homes post-winter. There is alot of dampness, mould, dust and general waste that builds up when we are in a confined space taking shelter from the cold.
Our bodies do much the same. Junk builds up within us that needs some serious detoxing. We cleanse through three of the body's main systems. The circulatory system pumps blood throughout the body – taking oxygen to cells whilst carrying the waste away. The digestive system processes the food we eat – absorbing the nutrients we need and eliminating anything we don’t. And then we have the lymphatic system, which collects fluid from our cells and sends it to the lymph nodes to ditch any harmful bacteria.The ...
TRX Suspension Trainer
By Antonio Pagano on
In today's day we spend way too much time sitting, either at work, in a car or at home on the couch. With very little time to workout to fight the effects of today's sedentary life, we need to think about the how, when and where we train?
This is where the concept of functional training comes in, basically functional training are exercises which involve training the body for the activities performed in daily life. A key element to functional training is a strong core, and with a strong core we will develop better stability and therefore better mobility.
Among some of the tools that Keep On Track uses to train we utilise Kettlebells, TRX Suspension Trainer, TRX RIP Trainer, Battle Ropes, Elastic Bands and body weight exercises,...
A Beginner's Guide to Fitness
By Kirsty Welsh on
I’ve worked in the health industry for long enough to know the biggest goal when an individual joins a gym is, ‘I want to get fit!’
What does this even mean?
If you want to ‘get fit’ you need to start with a good definition of what fitness means to you, otherwise where do you even begin? It can be overwhelming!
Here’s a little bit of help to get you going. Physical fitness can be defined as the ability of the body to perform with energy and alertness. (Yes please, where do I sign up!)
Fitness to me is not just physical; although we normally focus on the physical, I prefer to look at fitness as a blend of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health. The beauty of physical activity is that movement allows us to think...
Goal Setting
By Mel Ingram on
Many of us set ourselves tasks and goals to achieve what we feel will make a difference to our lives. Sometimes we find it difficult to achieve these goals as the journey becomes too long, too hard or it simply gets overshadowed by other ‘higher priority’ tasks and therefore these goals are pushed to the side.
Start by asking yourself some simple questions that can help you take control of your life and achieve your goals –
· - What are you trying to achieve?
· - What are your habits and what do you want to change?
· - What have you achieved in life?
· - Do you live in the moment?
What are trying to achieve and what is your ultimate goal? Is it to live cleanly, train for a 10km fun run, sleep better, lose weight, drink...