A Complete Guide on Plyometric Training: What It Is and How It Can Boost Your Fitness
Looking for an extra challenge in your workouts? Then it may be time to look into plyometric training. Here’s a complete guide on what it is and how to start.
General Health & Fitness
8 Reasons to Exercise and Increase Your Activity Levels
As someone who’s always lived life a little on the larger side, I know all too well the struggle of losing weight and trying to keep it off. But look, you can’t blame a man for loving his grub! Growing up I was never one to turn down food and always had a huge appetite, and that never …
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INVEST IN A HEALTHIER, HAPPIER YOU!
Give yourself a fighting chance in 2020 by investing in a healthier, happier you. Being physically & mentally fit is the ultimate investment opportunity, such rewards that money can’t buy. Never has our health and wellbeing been as important to us, so why wouldn’t you invest in your future? Our mission is to create ‘A …
WORKOUT BLENDING
The closing of gyms and leisure facilities have affected each one of us in some form or another. People use the gym to unwind from stressful days, preparing to step on stage for a competition or just simply to keep your fitness levels up. The way I look at it is a time to try …
The Importance Of Vitamin D
Light from the sun is essential for getting a good source of Vitamin D. This means that soaking up some rays will help boost immunity and fight infection; help keep your teeth and bones strong, and promote a healthy heart by supporting your circulation. An adequate level of sunlight also gives us a positive outlook …
Home Exercises Supporting People with Disabilities
The Aura Holohan Group and Irish Wheelchair Association have teamed up to launch an online home exercise programme to support people with disabilities to stay fit and healthy during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Aura Holohan Group, which operates over 15 leisure centres and gyms nationwide, is working with Irish Wheelchair Association to design and deliver …
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Exercise is the Antidote
This time of uncertainty brings an overwhelming sense of fear, panic and worry. Words like isolation, pandemic and lockdown are causing huge stress and anxiety. We are all struggling to cope, we want you to know we are are all in this together and we must not allow it to over power us. Although we …
7 Simple Steps to Sleeping Like A Baby
For many of us, getting the right amount of sleep is a luxury that slips through our desperate grasps. Likewise, the poor quality of our sleeps leaves us feeling drained, lethargic and sluggish. We all know the feeling of having an amazing nights sleep and the head start it gives you going into your day! …
Should You Exercise When You Have a Cold?
There’s nothing more frustrating than catching a pesky cold especially at this time of year, when the festive social calendar is building up and you’re trying to fit in your exercise routine around silly season. We all do it.…we google our symptoms and the next thing you know we’ve diagnosed ourselves with a rare form …
5 Reasons Why You Should Start Group Exercise Classes This Winter
Slugging it out on your own in a gym can sometimes feel like climbing a mountain. No matter what gym you train in or whoever you talk to in the fitness industry, we’ve all been there. Solo training means you are not only accountable to yourself but your very own mindset. There is no external …
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Powering Through Your Excuses
Why is it people decide to make excuses?Whether we like it or not, many of us love to make excuses when we face adversity or a challenge. A lot of the time it is because familiarity gets the better of us, we doubt ourselves, we’re scared, or we simply don’t feel ready. We can be …
7 ways to overcome Gymtimidation
For many people, one of the biggest hurdles they’ll face on their fitness journey is actually stepping into the gym. If you feel insecure about yourself or daunted about how to use equipment in the gym, it’s so easy to feel intimidated by others who look like they were born there. People fear they will …
How to Lower High Blood Pressure
We’ve all heard about the risks of high blood pressure and how it can negatively affect our health. High blood pressure has for a long time been identified as a leading cause of heart attack and stroke, two of the leading causes of death in Ireland.
4 Tips to Keep Festively Fit and Healthy Over Christmas
Festive Season is officially upon us, a time where most of us sleigh down the slippery slope of overindulgence. Our exercise routine tends to be compromised by social invitations and tipple temptations. But instead of falling off the bandwagon altogether and feeling pretty awful come the end of December, we have 4 easy, smart and …
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