Working Out at Home? Common Mistakes That Can Lead to Injury

16/01/2025

Taking our workouts virtual is just another one of the adjustments we’ve all had to make this year. And while continuing to exercise at home is important for maintaining our physical and mental health, it also presents the opportunity for injury.

Not having a trainer by your side to keep you in check means that you could be performing...

13 Healthy Late-Night Snacks Recommended By Nutrition Experts

13/01/2025

Let's face it: Late-night snacks get a bad rap, but sometimes, they're simply necessary. Maybe you work irregular hours or ate dinner earlier than usual. Or perhaps you had a busy day and weren't able to eat a satisfying evening meal. (Hey, it happens to the best of folks.) Even being more...

9 Best No-Cook Recipes to Help Keep You Cool This Summer

10/01/2025

The hot weather is the perfect time for picnics and pool-side chilling, but the sun can dehydrate you and cause you to lose your appetite. That's why it's so important you stack your summer menu with hydrating foods that are light, nutritious, and full of flavor. The best part about these recipes? They don't require any cooking...

7 Basic Exercises You Can Do on Your Yoga Mat

07/01/2025

Many of us assume you need tons of heavy weights and expensive equipment to flesh out a home gym. But the truth is, all you really need is a yoga mat. Sure, it may seem strange that you could get a gym-quality workout with a $30 piece of equipment. But there are so many yoga mat exercises out there that you actually can...

Runners, You Should Strength Train in the Off Season to Return to the Start Line Stronger

04/01/2025

It’s been a long season. You’ve competed in numerous races, some good and some bad. Now it’s time to hit the reset button before you get back to the grind. While you might feel ready to turn your brain off before you think about next year’s goals, you also might worry that too much time off could end up hurting your performance down the road...

The 7 Best Breakfast Foods for Brain Health, According to Dietitians

25/09/2024

You already know you should be eating breakfast every day—and that doesn’t mean ordering an oat milk latte and calling it good. Hear us out: Putting actual food into your body every morning is not only about refueling your energy tank. Eating a high-quality, nutrient-filled breakfast will actually help you perform better at work (and at play)...

Control Compulsive Eating

22/09/2024

What is it about food? Serve us a plate with normal-sized portions and no other food on the table, and we'll eat it and likely be quite satisfied. But put us before an all you can eat buffet, and suddenly our hunger sensor goes on the blink and we eat until we have to loosen our belts...

Shocking Revelation About Overeating and Obesity

19/09/2024

Conventional wisdom about weight gain and obesity has long pointed to what's called the "energy balance model" as a root cause—meaning you're taking in more calories than you burn. But a new perspective published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition challenges that assumption, claiming that it's not how much you eat that leads to weight gain...

Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D for Winter? If Not Here’s How to Fix This

16/09/2024

Vitamin D is often referred to as the sunshine vitamin, and is the vitamin which helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in your body. This in turn keeps our bones, teeth and muscles in good condition, not forgetting that it is really beneficial for protecting your immune system too.

So what happens when the winter months creep in...

5 Moves That Will Work Your Core and Glutes at the Same Time

13/09/2024

Scroll through any digital fitness platform or boutique studio schedule, and you'll be hard-pressed to find one that doesn't have some sort of "Abs and Ass" class on its roster. The reason? These two muscle groups (your glutes and your core) are responsible for so many of the movements that you make in your day-to-day life, and exercises that work...