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Trifocus Fitness Academy - cycling
What is the biomechanical analysis of cycling?
Cycling is an excellent form of low-impact aerobic exercise that burns up calories. Calorie burn ranges from 150 calories per hour for a small person travelling at 8kph to over 800 calories per hour for a larger person travelling uphill or over 32kph. Cycling technique If the saddle on your…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - stabilisation
Stabilisation and positioning in weight training
Weight training builds muscle but it may also assist with preventing disease, improving mood and aiding in losing weight. Other benefits of this type of training include increased overall strength, managing weight, building up bone density, helping the heart and better sleeping. However, to completely reap these benefits you need…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - resistance training
What are the basic principles of resistance training?
The term strength training often used interchangeably with resistance training and weight training. But, they are not synonymous: Resistance training – any form of exercise that causes the muscle to contract against an external resistance. Weights are just one tool but, there are many different methods of resistance you can…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - running
How is running biomechanically analysed?
Running is one of the top forms of cardiovascular activity as it doesn’t require any expensive equipment. In addition, you can run almost anywhere. People have different reasons for running. Some run for weight loss and others run as a sport to take part in races. It is imperative to…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - fitness
How to bring the fun back into fitness
If working out has grown to be too similar to work or if just thinking about exercising makes you want to have a nap, then you seriously need to rethink your workout routine. You know that you need to move in order to burn calories as well as get fit.…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - headache
Exercises to help alleviate headaches
The easiest and quickest thing to do – and what most of us do – when we sense a headache coming on is to reach for the medicine cabinet. While this solution is nothing to be sneezed at, if you constantly suffer from headaches, especially related to tension, you need…
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