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Trifocus Fitness Academy - gymnastics
What impact does gymnastics have on your joints and bones?
Gymnastic exercises develop your physical agility and coordination. These can improve your bone, muscle and cognitive health. In addition, these types of exercises target all muscle groups for total-body strength and flexibility. Gymnastics also fights metabolic and immune disorders by lowering blood pressure and releasing antioxidant enzymes in your body.…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - good posture
Exercises to maintain good posture
While a good posture can shave off a few kilos and make you look confident, it also helps to improve your body’s strength and balance. Bad posture often means that some joints, muscles and bones take on a lot more stress because they have to compensate for your imbalance. Not…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - muscle imbalance
What is muscle imbalance?
Normally, muscles use a combination of contraction and relaxation to enable body movement. When muscular imbalances occur, two or more muscles don’t contract and relax as they should. For example, when the biceps muscle on the front of the upper arm contracts and the triceps muscle on the back of…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - back strength
Exercises to increase back strength
Your spine is responsible for supporting your entire body. Whenever you lift something, your back needs to make sure you don’t fall over from the weight. To support your spine, there are about 140 muscles. These muscles can be trained to make sure your spine doesn’t get hurt. Here are…
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Trifocus Fitness Academy - life skills
Life skills: The right tools for the job
In South Africa, we have added many words to our own vocabulary over the past few decades. One important buzzword in education is upskilling. The word may look awkward but it tells it like it is. Upskilling is about taking individuals’ abilities to a higher level, upwards from where those…
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