Meet Planet Belmont’s latest More Than a Number, Paul! Have you always been involved in fitness or exercise? No, up until my mid 30s I was a couch potato. However, over the next 15 or so years I was an exercise fanatic. What exercise have you done previously? In those 15+ years I ran over 100...
When it comes to working out, are you doing it correctly? We asked our in-house fitness fanatic, Body Attack instructor and Barre Babe, Phoebe Parsons how to lunge, squat and plank correctly. Here’s what she said… The Lunge Correct technique: – Neutral spine – ...
Upending conventions about how best to strength train, a new study finds that people who lift relatively light weights can build just as much strength and muscle size as those who grunt through sessions using much heftier weights — if they plan their workouts correctly. Strength training has long be...
Some days, you hit your workout feeling energised and powerful. You finish knowing you gave it your all, leaving nothing on the table. Other days, you struggle immensely with major workout fatigue. You work as hard as you can, but you’re exhausted. You try to shake the fatigue and gr...
Researchers have identified a substance in muscles that helps explain the connection between a fit body and a sharp mind. When muscles work, they release a protein that appears to generate new cells and connections in a part of the brain that is critical to memory, a team reports Thursday in the jou...
