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How to maintain fitness levels when you’re pregnant
When you’re pregnant, your body becomes more difficult to control. Your bladder, stomach, back and emotions start doing their own thing and you have to clean up whatever comes after. However, you do have control over your fitness levels and health. According to experts: “Exercise is not a process that…
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How Would You Design an Exercise Plan for Children?
Child exercise practitioners are people who take it upon themselves to promote physical activity among children. Designing an exercise plan for children is a serious matter, taking into your hands the well-being and fitness of people’s little sons and daughters. The goal of a children’s fitness and exercise programme is to…
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How Do You Promote Physical Activity in Children?
Did you know that only 1 in 3 children are physically active on a daily basis? While a little one might be bouncing off the walls, studies have shown that mere hyperactivity does not equal exercise. Physical activity is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle and must begin in…
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What are the Best Exercises for Children to do?
Children grow at the rate of knots! As we mentioned in a previous article, in their first year of life they can grow as much as 25cm and this doesn’t slow down. Their joints, muscles and ligaments are also being moulded and developed along with this phenomenal growth rate. To…
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What Foods should Older Adults Eat?
In our article entitled What Should Good Nutrition Mean to You? we looked at the concept of healthy eating and how you can implement these principles. As we get older, our bodies change fundamentally. We become more susceptible to diseases such as arthritis and osteoporosis. In addition, our energy requirements…
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Why You Would Make a Wonderful Children’s Exercise Coach!
Getting children to exercise more should be everyone’s priority. After all, childhood obesity is arguably one of the biggest threats to kids’ health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), childhood obesity has more than doubled over the last 30 years. So what are we doing to nip…
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Fitness for the Elderly
Advancing age comes with its own slew of challenges. A few of these are more noticeable than physical fitness. For many, getting older means far less time spent being active, which in itself can contribute drastically to the ageing process. Maintaining body performance is important for the health of those…
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How Does A Woman’s Body Change During Pregnancy?
Pregnancy is one of the greatest blessings any woman can experience. But with it comes an array of physical, emotional and mental changes that can be quite daunting and scary if you’re not prepared for these and don’t know what to expect. From the size of your belly to your…
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How Can Strength Training Help Women Physiologically?
Strength training offers many physical, physiological, mental and emotional benefits. This is applicable to both men and women. The great thing is that people are starting to realise this. More and more people are adding regular strength training to their health and fitness regimes for many reasons. These are, for example, to get…
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The benefits of weight training for women
Visit any gym and you’ll see the dudes lining up to use the free weights. But only one or two women (and they’re usually there with a personal trainer or a boyfriend!). Women have, historically, avoided weights and weight training, for lots of reasons. There’s the belief that weight training…
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Five types of exercise that beat depression in children
We like to think that children (and teens) are content and playful. But they are as likely to suffer from depression as any adult. In fact, experts say depression affects 20% of our population at some point in their lives. And it can be debilitating for kids. Symptoms include a…
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