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What to Include in a Balanced Fitness Routine

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Whatever your fitness level from beginner to an experienced gym-goer, creating a fitness plan that is balanced is key to succeeding in achieving your goals. While you may want to have a stronger focus on certain areas such as building muscle, losing weight or improving heart health, you should incorporate several aspects of fitness to ensure your workout routine is maintainable and balanced. With that in mind, there are five key things to include in your workout regime: cardio, strength training, core exercises, flexibility/mobility, and rest. These are five pillars of a well-structured fitness routine and in this blog, we’ll run through why you should include them all.

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5 Benefits of Swimming for Injury Rehabilitation

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When injury strikes it can be extremely difficult and frustrating, especially for those of us that like to keep active. While the road to recovery can often be a long one, many people tend not to make the most of one of the best tools available when recovering, and that tool is swimming. Swimming is an ideal way to not only maintain or even build fitness when injured but it can also speed up your recovery time. In this blog, we’re going to paddle through five key areas that being in the pool can benefit you while you aid an injury.

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6 Key Reasons Your Child Should Learn to Swim

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Whether you’re a swimmer yourself or not, you should definitely teach your child to swim. Swimming is an activity that is not only fun but can save a person’s life. While we encourage people of all ages to learn how to swim, especially if you are an adult who never has, the earlier you start the better. There’s so many benefits in picking up the skill of swimming, but for now here’s a few of the standouts for your child.

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6 Things to Consider When Starting a Fitness Routine

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Beginning your fitness journey or starting back after a while away can be both exciting as well as daunting. With that in mind people often have the best intentions when kicking off their fitness adventure before ultimately giving up due to a lack of motivation, results or a combination of things. However, we’re here to help you get started on your fitness mission and stick to it with some simple tips. In this blog we’ll run through six considerations to make to ensure you achieve your ultimate fitness goals, so let’s jump right in.

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5 Perks of Joining Aura to Kickstart Your Fitness Journey

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Whether it’s the start of January and you have a new year fitness buzz or the middle of the summer when you have a craving to build you fitness levels, it’s always a good time to start at Aura Leisure. While there are other gyms and leisure centres out there, we offer a combination unlike anywhere else in Ireland. Our goal is to build a healthier, happier Ireland and that’s why we want to provide our members with everything they need to succeed in any fitness target they have. While there are many perks to joining Aura here are 5, we know you’ll love.

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A Quick Guide to the Most Common Swim Strokes

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Swimming is not only a vital life skill but also an incredible way to stay fit. Whether it’s adding it in with your gym routine or just heading for a swim each day, swimming is a low impact exercise that lays claim to many benefits. With that in mind, it’s a good idea to know what the most common swimming strokes are, how to perform them, and what benefits each holds. So, we’ve put together a quick overview of the four most common swim strokes below to help you learn more.

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The Impact of Sleep on Your Workouts

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It’s no surprise to anyone that getting a good night’s sleep is beneficial for your general health and wellbeing. The HSE recommends that adults get seven or more hours sleep each night to have a healthy sleeping schedule. However, in this busy world we live in, it can be difficult to squeeze in enough sleep, while trying to stay fit on top of it all. Although it’s hard, consistently getting a good night’s shut eye, isn’t just good for you in general, it’s vital to reach your peak during your workouts and we’re here to explain how.

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3 Reasons You Should Add Swimming to Your Fitness Routine

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When it comes to staying fit, we’re all looking for that magic formula. However, everyone is different meaning there’s no single method on how to get fit and stay fit, but what most people focus on is hitting the gym along with their diet. While these are things that you should be concentrating on, people often overlook swimming as a key method to reaching their fitness goals. While swimming has a huge number of benefits, we’re here to shed light on three reasons you should definitely consider adding swimming into your fitness routine.

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When is the Best Time of Day to Work Out?

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It’s an age-old question when it comes to fitness, when is the best time of day to work out? There’s been plenty of research done in this area and with time and different variables the answer seems to be changing. However, if you’re struggling to choose what time to work out each day, we’re here to help! We’ve put together the pros and cons of working out in the morning vs later in the day to help you decide what’s best to achieve consistency!

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How to Start a Fitness Routine

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Whether you’re someone brand new to fitness or a person that’s taken a break away, getting a consistent routine that keeps you motivated to come back time and time again can be daunting. However, we all know the vast number of benefits mentally and physically to working out on a regular basis, so why wouldn’t you want to make a plan that you can stick to? We’re here to help with some top advice on how to not only kickstart your own fitness routine, but also how to ensure you make it something you can continue with. So, let’s dig into some of the ways we recommend you build a fitness routine.

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What is HIIT?

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High intensity interval training or HIIT as it is commonly known is something that’s become hugely popular in recent years, but what exactly is it? We’ve all heard that it provides many benefits, but with so much effort involved it can often scare people away from trying it. However, in our blog we’re here to explain not only what HIIT is, along with its benefits, but why it is also something that everyone can get involved in. So, let’s get started with the simple answer to what HIIT is all about.

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A Quick Guide to Endurance Training

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When we exercise, we often hear about building endurance, but what does that actually mean and how do we do it? This blog will provide a brief overview of exactly what endurance training is, the different types of endurance training and what exercises help. We’ll also run through some of the benefits that enhancing your endurance can provide. So, let’s jump right in.

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5 Simple Steps to Boost Your Recovery

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When it comes to fitness, we are constantly hearing that we need to give our all during every workout to be as fit as possible, which is a key factor in reaching your fitness goals. However, an area that lacks respect is that of recovery. While it is important to push yourself in your workouts, it’s equally important to allow your body the time it needs to refuel, in order to hit your next workout just as hard and we’ve got some top tips on how to make the most of your recovery time. We’ve put together five key ways that you can boost your recovery after each workout, so let’s jump right in.

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