Tag: Exercise
Gym Manager Sam’s Warrant of Fitness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GLOtO2dl9g
Following my lead in last month, we’ve had a lot of people ask about what the Human Potential Clinic does, so I thought I’d...
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What does the Human Potential Clinic do?
The Human Potential Clinic (HPC) is a leading provider of clinical exercise physiology services in New Zealand. This...
Exercise as medicine: Parkinson’s disease
The health benefits of exercise have long been extolled. Heart disease treatment and prevention, cancer, and mental health are amongst the most commonly known...
Exercise as medicine: How prescribed exercise helps disease prevention and management
The benefits of exercise are well known, but these become additionally important for people recovering from medical events or chronic conditions. Exercise can provide...
Iliotibial Band Syndrome (Runner’s Knee)
Often referred to as Runner’s Knee, Iliotibial Band Syndrome (ITBS) is the second most common running pain and the leading cause of lateral knee...
Hit the road, Jack!
It's 7.30am on a Wednesday morning, and Jack Atkinson is perky and cracking jokes. To others struggling to move out of first gear and...
How to stay fit while injured
It can be very frustrating when you are playing sport, training for an event, or simply exercising to try to live a healthy lifestyle,...
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50 Questions Every Youth Athlete Should Ask Themselves
Asking good questions is an excellent way to assess your performance and become more in tune with what to focus on to get better.
At...
5 Reasons Why Competition is Good (and bad) for your Child
What does the word ‘competition’ bring to mind? Is all competition a good thing? How do you distinguish between helpful competition and that which...
The Menstrual Cycle and How It Affects the Female Athlete
It’s well-known that sex differences between men and woman exist. Differences that affect your physiology.
But what’s not so well known is how these differences...
Making strides
Every morning, AUT Millennium's Sports Hall is buzzing with noise. Music acts as a backdrop to the array of obstacles and equipment laid out,...
What makes sport fun?
The positive benefit sport can provide kids is highly dependent on one thing: continued involvement.
If a child drops out, which evidence suggests is happening...
