Tag: Gym
Intuitive Awareness Training
What is “intuitive awareness” and how is it applied to working out? Intuitive awareness is being conscious of how you physically and mentally feel...
Juggling Fitness on a Busy Schedule
When you don’t have much time to devote to your fitness and wellbeing, you have to plan for more time-efficient workouts. In this case...
HealthZone Physio: Preventing Gym Related Injuries
With a new year comes fitness-related New Year’s resolutions and a spike in gym attendance. As a proud gym bunny myself, I can tell...
Training Principles for Maximum Results
As the saying goes, “methods are many, principles are few”.
There may be an unlimited combination of exercises, set/rep schemes and methods that we can...
Ultimate Treadmill Workout
Hopping on the treadmill for a quick warm up usually is the first thing people do when they come to the gym. However, treadmill...
Keeping the community healthy & fit
The Sir Owen G. Glenn National Aquatic Centre is dedicated to ensuring that everyone in the community, from babies through to high performance athletes,...
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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...
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...
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...
Lessons from A Silver Fern
Guest Contribution: Anna Harrison - New Zealand Netballer.
Another big year of Northern Mystics and New Zealand Silver Fern Netball commitments has come to an...
Listen and Learn: The power of knowing your athlete
In episode 27 of the Athlete Development Show, I spoke with Mystics and Silver Ferns defender Michaela Sokolich-Beatson. On the show, I asked Michaela...
