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Mental & Physical Challenges to Overcome this New Year

The new year gives us a chance to reinvigorate our zest for fitness. Particularly if we have had to endure physical and mental challenges that may have resulted in failure to achieve fitness goals which were set last year. Here are a few tips on how we can get the better of these challenges to become healthier and stronger versions of ourselves this brand new year.

Fitness Goals To Include In Your Bucket List

A large number of us have created bucket lists for ourselves. Some create ones with long-term goals that must be concurred, while others add in New Year resolutions. One of the most popular wishes to be incorporated in any bucket list is ‘fitness’. Here are six fitness goals that could be part of your bucket list and how you can get yourself ready for them.

Movember is Here

If men’s health is a cause that you identify with passionately, then you probably have already head of the global movement Movember. Held annually in the month of November, the campaign aims at encouraging men from around the world to grow a moustache to raise funds in support of numerous issues related to men’s health.

Physical Activities for Cancer Patients

Cancer treatment which includes chemotherapy can take a huge toll on your body physically, draining you of the energy that you need to go through each day. Thus, it is vital that you engage in physical activities to keep your body strong during the cancer recovery process.

What Is Your Indigestion Trying To Tell You?

You know that uneasy feeling when your stomach feels all queasy and churned? A very normal looking day can turn upside down due to an upset stomach. Despite knowing that feeling, you are unable to do anything about it. While you may not easily know what your stomach is trying to tell you, here are a few symptoms that may help you understand your upset stomach better.

Leaky Gut - What Is It

A healthy gut denotes a healthy you! If your gut is unhealthy, you become prone to various diseases which drag you to sickness. Leaky gut is one of the most annoying diseases of the gut.

Intellectual Fitness

Physical fitness has been on top priority in order to stay healthy. While physical fitness is definitely important, intellectual fitness is equally necessary. Physical fitness can be achieved by regular exercises like endurance activities, resistance training, balance exercises, and flexibility exercises. Intellectual fitness involves exercises for your brain in order to stay mentally fit.

How Much Cardio Is Too Much

Cardio is essential when it comes to a fitness journey, especially one that is focusing on weight loss. But what one doesn’t realise is that extreme cardio can be detrimental to a fit body. In such a scenario, how much cardio is enough?

5 Ways To Better Core Health For New Mothers And Mothers To Be

The great changes that pregnancy and childbirth place on the body take time to recover from. For new mothers and mothers-to-be, practising Pilates eases you through pregnancy, labour and speeds up recovery after delivery.

4 Sneaky Signs of Stress

Every individual is affected by stress at some point of time in life. What exactly is stress? Stress is your body’s and brain’s response to any stimulus like exercise, work, school, life changes, trauma, etc. Stress can take a huge toll on your health and hence it is necessary to deal with minor and major stressful events of your life.

Should You Exercise When You Are Sick

When you are feeling out of the blue, should you continue your exercise or sit this one out to rest and relax? You have been very regular and particular about your exercise routine but now suddenly you develop fever or some other illness. What should you do? Should you skip your treadmill or that yoga class for an afternoon nap?

Headache Types: What Does Your Pain Mean?

Headaches are one of the commonest medical ailments which are experienced by most people at some point in their life. Headaches occur regardless of age, race, gender etc. As per the WHO report, almost half the adults worldwide experience a headache every year.

Tracking Progress Is Essential - Here’s How to Do It Right

Irrespective of varying workout goals from weight loss and gaining muscles, to getting a toned body, measuring your progress is a must. The whole point of measuring your progress is to take note of significant data that you can utilize, based on which you can decide your next steps to attain your goal and stay motivated.

6 things about microresolutions and how they can help you score your fitness goals sooner

By downsizing your ambition in small, simple steps, you can try to reverse engineer the behaviour that holds you back.

Cellulite and Its Causes

What do you know about cellulite?

How to know the best way to train

Whether you’re built for speed or endurance, DNA testing can help optimise your workout

5 reasons why you should sign up for personal training

How a Certified Fitness Coach can really up your quality of life

How DNA testing can personalise your workout

Here’s your body’s user manual

Best Workout Plans To Start At The New Year

It is normal to run into challenges that make it difficult for us to stick to new year fitness resolutions. This usually occurs when you aim to hit goals which are too ambitious in nature. For example, beginning a fitness program with an exercise plan that is too intense. A better alternative would be to concentrate on short-term objectives that can be accomplished by tailoring them towards specific breakthroughs throughout the year

Get A Head Start On 2020

One of the reasons new year resolutions tend to fizzle out so quickly is because we just can’t sustain the energy and find the motivation to keep going. This happens when we attempt too many changes in our lives at one go – our bodies need to adjust. As such, you should work your way up into these changes. Ease your way in by making small steps this December. If you are planning some fitness-based resolutions come 2020, here are some ways where you can get a head start to help with the adjustment.

How To Get Back Into Exercise After Injury

An injury can occur to anyone at any time, regardless of age. Apart from the physical discomfort, it can curtail you from going about your daily life and physical activities, especially if you are someone who loves exercising.

Body After Baby: 4 Things to Know

The first six months of motherhood are the most difficult and pass by in a blur - between the feedings, diaper changes, sleep deprivation and the new challenges which come up daily. Many new moms wish to get back to their active life despite the new responsibilities and are ready to exercise to regain their strength and energy. Your body undergoes many changes during pregnancy and after delivery, which will take time to heal. Give yourself enough time to get adjusted to your new body before you start any kind of physical exercise and activity.

7 Tips for New Moms Who Need a Little Extra Workout Motivation

Nothing like a newborn to make you seize the day

5 Ways to Find Your Work-Life Balance

Yes, we can. Work it out.

5 Ways to a Healthy Body Image

What to do when your Instagram feed is packed with too many influencers

What’s the game plan?

Decide what you really want, then score the fitness goals that make your life meaningful.

How to Set your SMART Fitness Goals?

First, know the rules of the game

Top 5 Nutritional Resolutions for the New Year

Creating new year fitness resolutions are a norm these days. Unfortunately, many of us fail to keep up to them by February as they are not incorporated as part of our daily activities like food habits. As such, here are 5 meal resolutions that you can include next year so you achieve a healthy lifestyle and reach your fitness goals

Nutritional Benefits of Festive Foods

The festive season promises a surfeit of delicious traditional foods. This could cause us to stray away from our overall health and fitness plan. Luckily, not everything presented during the celebration is harmful to your health. Here are a number of nutritional values incorporated in some common festive foods that can benefit your body.

Guilt-free Foods to Try this Rainy Season

When it comes to satisfying food cravings, Filipinos are determined individuals. Especially so during the rainy season, when changes in temperature may cause our palettes and cravings to change as well. Therefore, here are a few guilt-free comfort foods that you can enjoy during the rainy season while maintaining your fitness goals.

Food Safety for Cancer Patients

As a cancer patient, your dietary plan should include fruits and vegetables, pulses, beans, whole grains, lean meat and low-fat dairy to improve your body’s strength and immune system. If your dietary plan meets all these requirements, focus should then shift towards ensuring that the food safety standards meet all the recommended guidelines as well. The proper preparation and storage of cancer-fighting foods varies based on the type of cancer that you have, your treatment and the ability of your immune system to fight off disease-causing bacteria and viruses present in food. Here are a few important food safety steps, which, implemented correctly, will allow your body to stay protected from food-borne illnesses and help you fight the battle against cancer.

Are You Using The Right Cooking Oils?

If you prefer cooking at home, you have definitely given some thought to what kind of oil would best suit you and your family. Whether you want to fry, sauté, or just drizzle, research proves that some oils are healthier than others and using the right oils for different types of cooking can benefit your health in more ways than one.

5 Mistakes You’re Making That Sabotage Your Fat Loss Efforts

We’re all on the same journey - one that leads to a healthier lifestyle. Gym workouts, cardio, diet - we have tried it all. But somehow, they all tend to hit a plateau stage. And we’re back to square one. Losing weight may seem like a lot of work - and it sure is - but that doesn’t necessarily make it hard. If you want to shed kilos and keep it that way, it is about the smaller and more permanent lifestyle changes that you need to make. Often, in the hurry to lose weight, we avoid the things that affect our health the most - without even realising it! Here are 5 mistakes you make that sabotages all your fat loss efforts

How To Eat Right For Your Age

Growing up isn’t easy and given the current lifestyle and food habits, a healthy growth is far away. Nothing is constant and hence the continuous change causes changes in your nutritional needs going at every different life stage. In order to stay fit and healthy, you need to eat right for your age. A varied diet of fruits, vegetables, whole grain, legumes, dairy foods, and lean meats are a must to meet your body’s basic nutritional requirements.

The Fitness First Breakfast Series

How to eat like a champion

All You Need to Know About Water and Your Workout

Don’t just gulp it down and take it for granted

How to deal with cholesterol in a smart way

Surprise! It’s not considered as fat

6 super healthy snacks

How to whip up simply scrumptious workout nibbles

Six Best Meal Prep For Your Workout

How to prep super-nutritious meals and cook them right

6 Reasons Why You Can Eat During Any Party Season

How to lose fat if you need to

3 reasons you need fat

High-performance fuel to boost your workout

Know These 4 Simple Things to Eat Sugar Healthily

Eat whole foods to avoid the sugar rush and sugar high. And crash.

5 Things You Need to Know About the 80:20 Rule and Dieting

How to strike a “win-win” deal with yourself

Time To Make A Change: Adjusting Your Goals

Goals give us a sense of purpose and helps guide us in the direction we want to head towards. It keeps us engaged in the activities we’ve set out for ourselves, and hopefully, lead us towards a more balanced and happy life. However, life is full of obstacles and our best intentions don’t always win. As humans, we are also constantly changing so what we thought worked for us at one point might not work for us after that. These changes are very much part of life and more than okay; we just need to pause sometimes to readjust out goals to accommodate them all.

Staying Fit During The Holidays

As the year comes to an end, we often find that our fitness routes can get warped along the way. It may be tempting to just give in, but you don’t want to start the new year with regret and wishing you had done it all differently. Here are a few suggestions on how you can stay fit this December.

Fat Loss Workouts For This Festive Season

The festive season does not only bring change to our environment, but can also influence our emotions. This could result in us losing track of our fitness goals amidst the celebrations. Exorbitant consumption of unhealthy food can result in you gaining weight significantly if not balanced with the right amount of exercise. Here are some fitness tips that you can follow to keep fit throughout the holidays.

It's November, Time To Plan For The Perfect Holiday Itinerary

To survive working in the 21st century, navigating your work-life balance is an essential part of life. Holidays are a great way to shut down for a while, and there’s no better time that now to think about your next break as we inch towards the year coming to a close. Here are some suggestions on how to plan your next trip before you start packing.

How to Stay Fit and Healthy During the Festive Season

The festive season provides us with a variety of food options at open houses, hotel buffets and restaurants. The situation can be especially challenging if you wish to stay fit and healthy at the same time.

How to Grow the Perfect Movember Moustache

Growing facial hair is commonly associated with a sense of manliness. Perceived visually over time to be a sign of being more masculine as compared to clean shaven men, the trend of growing facial hair has risen to prominence significantly over the past few years.

Five Tips for Cancer Survivors’ Mental Health Improvement

If you have survived cancer, then you would know that it is only natural to feel sad, afraid, angry or all these emotions at once during the course of your treatment. Some cancer patients spend a lifetime battling the disease, being constantly preoccupied with chemotherapy and other forms of treatment to fight for another chance of living. And though they may have been able to free themselves from the shackles of cancer physically, most survivors never really break away from the damages to their mental health. If you are a cancer survivor struggling with mental health, it is important that you continue to fight daily till you attain complete mental soundness. Here are 5 steps to take in your journey towards mental health recovery.

Ways To Improve Posture At Work

Sitting at the desk all day seems to be the new trend for the working generation. Add to that poor posture which easily becomes second nature causing recurrent episodes of back and neck pain. Are you affected by all this and more? Well, the main factors that affect body posture and ergonomics are within your own ability to control and are relatively easy to change.

What Is Metabolism – And How Can You Speed It Up?

To a layman, metabolism is simply limited to the breakdown of food that has been consumed. However, from a scientifically accurate perspective, the term metabolism encompasses two fundamental processes namely; catabolism and anabolism. While for some, a speedy metabolism is inherited but for others, it can be different because of their gender, age or even just the way their body responds. We sure can’t control our age, gender, or genetics but there are ways with which you can boost it.

Not Sure Why Your Muscles Are So Sore? We’ll Tell You Why

Let’s admit it--working out is a challenging task. It begins with making time for exercise, charting out a balanced diet and setting realistic goals as per one’s level of fitness. However, the additional impact of a phenomenon called ‘muscle soreness’ can further demotivate you to continue your fitness journey. Muscle soreness is basically the result of indulging in a new workout that results in pain in the muscles. Our muscles are made in such a way that they are bound to experience pain when we try do physical activities that our body is not used to, especially for the first few days or weeks. What are the causes of muscle soreness?

8 Sneaky Reasons Why You’re Always Hungry

It doesn’t matter what you eat or how much you eat, you know you are feeling the need to fuel up even if you’ve just finished a meal. If you can relate to this, we’ll have all the answers to why this happens in the first place. We’ll also, of course suggest ways to deal with it in the right manner.

6 Tips to Stay Focused At Work

Your average attention span is about 8 seconds. This number has reduced over the passing years thanks to the increased screen time and digital connections. Human survival depends on focus and your ability to pay attention to what’s important and moving. Focus is a muscle which can be built. Follow these few techniques to learn how to eliminate your distractions and focus on your work.

6 simple things about mindful eating

How to get the best from what you eat

5 reasons why you need rest

If you can’t be still, you’ll just burn out

4 good reasons to join a group fitness class

You’re missing out if you only fly solo

8 things about heart-rate training that are prosperous for your fitness

How to know if you’re putting enough effort into your workout plan

3 ways to beat the post-holiday blues

How runner’s high can make your headspace a nicer place to be

7 ways to get back into your workout after a break

It’s tough, but it can be done and will make you better

8 ways to keep your New Year resolutions alive

Banish fear and anxiety by breaking them down

5 simple habits to stay healthy this festive season

How to simply carry on with the workout routine and healthy diet plan

8 things you need to know about sleep

Why sleep is important for your workout

8 things about cardio training that will lead to happiness

How to live long and prosper

7 ways to improve your digestion and feel lighter on your feet

Peak fitness begins from the inside out with your gut health

Sore Neck? Here’s what to do.

Sore neck or neck pain is the one felt from the base of the skull that radiates to the upper part of the back and extends sideways to the shoulder region.

6 Easy-Peasy Tips to Improve Your Sleep

Doesn’t everyone like to sleep? Read on how you can easily improve every single night.

Can you hack that home workout?

It’s all about good etiquette:

Play nice with everyone. Good etiquette takes you places.