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How to make your fitness resolution stick

After weeks of overindulgence in mulled wine and turkey stuffing, it possible that you’re ready for a fresh and healthy start to the new year. If you’ve set yourself the new year’s resolution to get fit, here are some helpful tips to ensure you’re exercising long after the rest have thrown in the towel.

Healthy new year's resolutions you can stick to

Not all new year’s resolutions need to be wildly optimistic lifestyle changes. With these small but easy to stick to new year’s resolutions, you can have a fitter and healthier 2019.

Your essential guide to fall fitness

Despite the colder and darker days, Autumn in all its glory is not only one of the most beautiful times of the year, it’s one the best seasons to exercise and add some spice to your workouts. From idyllic weather to deliciously sourced local produce, here's your essential guide to fall fitness. 

Why you should forget the gym and exercise outdoors

While the gym does have it's perks, it simply can't compete with the variety, views and constantly changing environment of the great outdoors. Whether you're a newbie exerciser or a seasoned pro, the great outdoors has everything you need to get fit.

9 reasons you’re always tired!

With increasingly busy social lives, family commitments and work schedules, feeling tired at times is perfectly acceptable. If however, your fatigue is constantly getting the better of you, it may be time to make some lifestyle changes.

How to Stay Lean as you age

Confused and frustrated that despite your best efforts to exercise and eat right, keeping trim is not as easy as in once was? Thankfully with a few tweaks to your diet and exercise plan, keeping lean as you age is not as ambitious as it seems. 

How to make your New Year's fitness resolution stick

A new year, a new you!? 

After weeks of overindulging in all that the festive season has to offer, the year has come to an abrupt end and all that's left to remind you of the good times is a wobble around you waistline / spare tyre wrapped firmly around your waistline.

Every year, thousands of us, vow to make the new year our healthiest and fittest ever. Yet a colossal 73% of us throw in the sweaty towel before the month of January comes to a close.

Diet hacks - how to structure and prioritise your diet

If the input is larger than the output, then more gets retained than depleted, and vice versa. Even though our bodies are not as simple as a basic math problem, because nutrition has several variables, we can use this principle to define human metabolism.

Each of the nutritional variables has its own place in this process. Some of them are more important than others and you need to adjust them accordingly if you wish to get the best possible results.

Morning vs evening - which is best for exercise?

When we exercise is very rarely something people consider when beginning any sort of exercise program. People exercise when it is convenient for them and rightly so. However, if you're serious about sustainability and optimized results, it could be worth taking a look at not only how you workout, but also when.

Running in the city survival guide

Urban running has never been for the faint-hearted. It’s an activity that involves the cat-like reflexes of a puma, the lungs of a Kenyan, and the legs of any sort of mammal that has more than just two. Put those intimidating facts aside and you've got a beautiful sport, done anywhere, at any time, with friends or alone and with nothing more than your worn-out Nikes and a Spotify account.

Here's what you need to watch out for when taking to the streets of any major city to pound some pavement:

TGI Friday - how not to crash your diet this weekend.

It's Friday, You've been training mean and eating clean all week. The drag of the mundane 9 till 5 work-week is almost over... until Monday at least and you're raring to go!

Before you divulge yourself into a weekend of poor health and potential diet ruining decisions, make sure to read this article on how not to throw all of your hard work out of the window this weekend.