Tag: physical activity
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Our Obsession with Counting Calories
Calories, calories and more calories. We have an obsession with counting calories. Look at any food label and right there at the top, usually bigger than anything else, are the calories. And in recent years restaurant menus also include the calorie count in many parts of the world. It’s as if food is only good…
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Turn Your Exercise Program into a Lifelong Habit with Fitness Coach Karina Inkster
Regular exercise can reduce your chances of getting disease and also make you feel better. Yet nearly three-quarters of us are not active enough. For most of us, it’s not the starting of the exercise program that’s the problem, it’s keeping it going for the weeks, months and years, and building it into a lifelong…
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How To Start Exercising
Congratulations. You’ve decided to start exercising. A fantastic first step. Exercise is great for your health. Not only does it reduce your chances of getting disease and early death, it also improves your mental wellbeing and even one session will refresh you and make you feel better. But where do you start? Do you sign…
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Why is fitness important?
Fitness and physical activity. One would think these two go hand in hand. Because of course you can’t get in good shape without being active. The two are closely related but not the same and that’s why fitness is important as much as how active you are. While physical activity is a behaviour defined as…