Tag: fitness
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Win 12 Training Sessions With Virgin Active SA
Virgin Active South Africa is giving away 12 training sessions with a personal trainer to one lucky winner – and it could be you! Submit your details below in the competition and win! T’s and C’s apply. Competition terms and conditions • All participants must be over the age of 18 and be a resident…
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Protein Powder and Your Skin: What You Need to Know
You hit the gym, eat plenty of fruit and veggies, get your rest and take advantage of some many men’s skincare products now on the market. It’s all part of a healthy lifestyle that should leave you looking and feeling your best, right? You’d think so, but if you’re regularly adding protein powder to your…
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Wimbledon: How Do The World’s Top Tennis Players Stay In Shape?
Wimbledon is coming to an end and as usual it has been thrilling. While each of the world’s top tennis players gives their all during the world’s biggest tennis tournament, we’re breaking down how they prioritize their health and well-being both on and off the court. Wimbledon Player’s Health Secrets Johanna Konta While the 28-year-old…
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Yoga: The Amazing Benefits of Daily Practice
Often than not, life can get busy and stressful – leaving no room for one to maintain an active lifestyle. There just doesn’t seem enough time in the day for you to grab your trainers and head off to the gym. However, you don’t need to carve out an hour of your day to keep…
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Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) Training: Is It Hype Or Hope?
Look up EMS training, and you’ll find it hailed by one lean and lithe celebrity after the other, including Heidi Klum, Elizabeth Hurley, and Madonna. But can you really replace your five-times-a-week, hour-long gym sessions with just 20 minutes of electronic muscle stimulation and simple resistance movements? As it turns out – depending on what…
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Why You Should Use Bulgarian Bags Like Halle Berry
Actress Halle Berry’s Instagram page is a fitness realm filled with images of the actress working out alongside her trainer Peter Lee Thomas. Each post displays a new chapter in her fitness journey and her latest post showed her working out with gym equipment that Thomas had recently introduced her to – Bulgarian bags. …
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How To Stay Fit While On Your Period
It’s a fact: exercise makes everything better. You sleep deeper, you enjoy your meals more, you move with more confidence and your skin has a healthy glow. However, for a few days each month, the last thing most women feel like doing is hitting the treadmill or even doing a few laps in the pool.…
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7 Science-Proven Ways Exercise Can Alleviate Anxiety
Stress is inevitable and, over the last forty years, anxiety has spread much like an epidemic. Ever since 1980, when Generalized Anxiety Disorder first appeared as a diagnostic category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, nearly everyone seems to have “caught” the disease. In fact, anxiety disorders are the most common mental…
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Calisthenics Workouts: Why Everyone Should Be Doing It
The sight of calisthenics athletes doing amazing pull-ups and incredible muscle-ups may be a deterrent for you to try out this form of exercise. You might be thinking that it would be impossible for you to ever succeed in performing these calisthenics exercises, so why even try? But while these moves do require immense strength…
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Jump Rope Is A Seriously Underrated Total Body Workout
Jump rope is probably an activity you remember doing as a child with your schoolmates. And it’s most likely not something you’ve tried in a while. That needs to change because just 10 minutes of jumping rope can torch calories! This is by far one of the most underrated forms of exercise. Yet, it is really…