Plyometric training is a form of resistance training that uses jumps, throws, hops and other movements to develop muscular power.....

It has been acknowledged for many years now that “obvious” poor foot function can be a significant causative factor with overuse injuries particularly affecting the foot & lower limb.....

Ergogenic aids are defined as work- producing substances or phenomena believed to increase performance..…

Eating disorders are complex psychological and behavioral disorders that occur in susceptible persons, usually during periods of physical and/or psychological growth or change.....

Much of our basic knowledge of exercise physiology comes from studies on young males and adults, as these are readily accessible subjects. Relatively, little research has been performed with elderly subjects...…

The knee is one of the major weight bearing joints. It transmits the large forces generated by movements of the body to the lower legs....

As more research into the area of low back pain and stabilisation began to emerge more recently the gymball is now be seen as a valuable tool in health and fitness training...….

No matter the level of participation, athletes want to be injury free and massage therapy can prove to be a valuable tool in injury care and prevention....

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The purpose of dietary assessment is to estimate food consumption / nutritional and caloric intake in individuals. Why would we do a nutritional analysis ?.…

It is important that the fitness professional view the movements of boxing as a kinetic chain of integrated functional movement....

Sporting injuries can be broadly classified as either acute or overuse. Acute injuries occur from a direct blow from an object or opponent or from a fall....

It has been suggested that increased public interest in natural therapies has resulted in more GPs showing an interest in their use.....

One in four Australian children is classified overweight or obese and children as young as ten are suffering high blood pressure and cholesterol...

Many of you either have considered starting a Personal Training Business or are already operating your own Personal Training Business....

Training for a “Peak Performance” requires careful planning and consideration of the interdependence of a number of factors....

Before you start to organise the structure for your business and then promote it you need a clear direction which client base you want to target...

Stress can be good or bad. The ancient Greeks had two words for stress – “eustress” (meaning good stress) and “dystress” (meaning bad stress)...

People who operate businesses in the Health and Fitness industry need to develop an understanding of the forces that are affecting the industry....

Water Training is a rapidly growing area of the fitness industry. It incorporates a variety of exercises and training regimes that are performed usually performed in a vertical orientation in shallow or deep water...

All of us at some stage have experienced fatigue to varying degrees after participating in aerobic exercise...

From birth, the heart maintains its size in relationship to body size. That is, it grows proportionally in concert with general body growth. At birth, resting heart rate (HR) is around 132 bpm, gradually slowing to about 78 bpm at 13–14 years. After maturity, the child’s heart rate decreases at a rate of 0.7 to 0.8 beats per minute per year of age.....

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Water based programs have for a long time been used as a rehabilitation or therapeutic device for injured, and those with chronic physical and mental problems....

Potentially dangerous and ineffective resistance exercises explained

As modern society becomes more and more focused on body shape and body image many myths and fallacies are being perpetuated on the uninformed populace....

Is the path you are on getting you the results you want? If you are pursuing a goal within the health and fitness industry potentially this may help you fast track your results. As Paul Zane Pilzner, Economic futurist suggested in his book, "The next Trillion Dollar Industry" is the health industry. Do you want a piece of the pie? .....

Although anecdotal evidence supports the notion that stretching helps to prevent musculo-skeletal injury, research in this area remains controversial.....

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Current exercise science research suggests that fitness trainers with advanced qualifications are likely to be more knowledgeable than those trainers who have completed basic, entry level fitness education programs...

Exercise scientists have realised that exercise performance and training adaptations change over the lifespan of an individual and depend upon the stage of physiological, psychological and social development of the individual........

With so many products available on the market currently it is difficult to tell which ones are derived from natural sources and which ones are synthetic....

Professionals involved in exercise have accepted this notion as intuitively correct and ongoing scientific data continues to support it....

The real "bottom line" for all professional service providers is a clearly articulated personal vision, the ability to see current reality clearly and a commitment to creating the desired results......

Physical therapists and personal trainers alike are more willingly and openly considering the effectiveness of the water environment as a tool for developing fitness and a supportive tool for treating and managing pain and injury.....

Circuit weight training has been a popular form of training for many years. It has often been described as the ideal training method, with the ability to develop strength, power, muscular endurance and aerobic capacity....

One of the most common training errors is the failure to regularly change the training stimulus - variation is important, the body adapts to change....

When starting a business you have many choices and decisions to make. In essence there are three types of business operators .....

As one of the oldest recorded sports in the world, boxing has been producing well conditioned bodies since the time of the Pharaohs. Few sports can match the competition intensity and physical preparation that boxing offers....

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The scope and variety of group exercise fitness classes have expanded considerably over the past decade. The term aerobics is no longer applicable or appropriate as a means to describe the vast number of classes now available in the fitness centres....

Even though the term massage is quite new, the art and science of massage therapy can be traced as far back in history as 3000 - 2000BC when Chinese literature mentions massage and exercise for the treatment of disease and maintenance of health....

In Australia 10,000 work-related injuries are notified for workers' compensation every year. Many injuries and accidents are not reported, so this figure under-estimates the actual incidence of workplace injuries...

Sporting injuries can be broadly classified as either acute or chronic injuries. The most common chronic injuries observed in recent times are those that are caused by overuse....

Over the past decade much has been written about neutral spine and functional stability. There is a wealth of information explaining the anatomy and function of the trunk muscles and those muscles concerned with trunk stability....

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