Lifetime Personal Training

10/10/2022

https://fb.watch/g3BRxz51qD/

24/11/2021

A new study found that exercise increases endocannabinoids in the body which is associated with a decrease in inflammatory biomarkers and positive changes in the gut microbiome.

Endocannabinoids reduce inflammation and could potentially be used to help treat certain inflammatory conditions such as arthritis, cancer, and heart disease. 🏋️‍♂️

Exercise increases the body's own cannabis-like substances, which in turn helps reduce inflammation and could potentially help treat certain conditions such as arthritis, cancer and heart disease.

29/08/2021

“We all think of weights as a route to toned muscle, but there’s far more to them than that. Studies have shown that lifting weights is among the most important steps we can take to preserving our health as we age. “It is extraordinarily good for us,” the trainer Zana Morris says. “It affects our muscles, bones, mood and mind, and is an extraordinary fat blaster. I can’t think of a reason why anyone wouldn’t benefit from using weights.”

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The Sunday Times

We all think of weights as a route to toned muscle, but there’s far more to them than that. Studies have shown that lifting weights is among the most important steps we can take to preserving our health as we age. “It is extraordinarily good for us,” the trainer Zana Morris says. “It affects...

24/04/2021

Yet another reason to exercise!

Physical inactivity is linked to more severe COVID-19 infection and a heightened risk of dying from the disease, finds a large U.S. study.

16/03/2021

An excellent podcast (backed by science!) explaining the health benefits of using the sauna regularly.

Regular sauna use benefits include:

🌱 Improved immune function
🌱 Detoxification
🌱Increased metabolism
🌱 Weight loss
🌱 Increased blood circulation
🌱 Pain reduction
🌱 Improved sleep
🌱 Stress management
🌱 Lowers inflammation in multiple studies including inflammatory biomarkers and c-reactive proteins (Alzheimer’s and cancer)
🌱 Increases endorphins and can help with depression
🌱 Similar effects to moderate intensity exercise

If you haven’t listened to the “found my fitness” podcast I highly recommend.

Dr. Rhonda Patrick (PHD) uses scientific evidence to promote strategies that increase health span, well being, cognitive and physical performance.

‎Show FoundMyFitness, Ep Sauna Use as an Exercise Mimetic for Heart and Healthspan - 16 Sep 2019

04/12/2020

“Exercise remains the single most important thing we can do to enhance health and self-preservation. Yet the way we work out is key and can improve — or worsen — the odds of injury or of having to go under the surgeons’ knife in our forties, fifties and beyond.”

During his 40-year career Bill Ribbans has tended to many of the top names in sport. Among the walking wounded that the Northamptonshire-based orthopaedic surgeon has helped to steer back to glory are the Olympians Jessica Ennis-Hill — he treated the ankle fracture that ruled her out of the Beijin...

16/11/2020

Advice for meeting Australia's physical activity guidelines:

🌟 Adults should do at least 150-300 minutes of moderate intensity exercise each week, or 75-150 minutes of vigorous activity. Gradually build to this.
🌟 Do resistance or weight training at least two days a week.
🌟 Aim to be active on most (preferably all) days every week, even if only for a few minutes.
🌟 Remember to warm up before each session and finish with some stretching.
🌟Consider starting with body weight supported exercises, so cycling and swimming instead of running, or using seated weight machines instead of free weights.

Getting back into an exercise regime is rarely pleasant. But from the moment you start, your body begins complex processes to rebuild its fitness.

30/10/2020

“We are now in the era of personalised nutrition where most of these outdated diet guidelines can be consigned to history.
We can now measure food responses in real time with glucose monitors, and check fat levels with home blood tests. Meanwhile, testing your gut microbes offers a good prediction of your likely responses to different foods. It’s important to realise you are unique. Listen more to your body, and less to outdated dogma. If you eat a wide variety of plants and aim to keep your gut microbes happy, you can’t go far wrong. “

We all know that fat is bad for you and veganism is super-healthy, right? Not necessarily. Read on as we bust some of the biggest, most-enduring food myths…

21/10/2020

Exercise is fundamental to slow down the aging process! How to keep your immune system and body strong as you age ⏰ 💪

As with nearly everything else to do with our bodies, the effectiveness of the immune system declines with age. From our twenties onwards the body’s ability to fight infection decreases at a rate of about 2 to 3 per cent a year, gradually leaving us more susceptible to diseases, says Janet Lord, a...

03/10/2020

Intermittent fasting... possibly just another diet trend?

“there was no statistically significant benefit from intermittent fasting in this study either for weight loss or for other health outcomes.
The only distinction for fasting, in fact, was a negative side effect. Participants on the intermittent fasting diet lost significantly more lean mass than fat mass, compared to those who had regular meal times.”

Cardiologist Dr. Ethan Weiss has long been an advocate of intermittent fasting, recommending it to patients for weight loss and health benefits and practicing it himself for over five years. But Weiss said he quit fasting after his new study showed it has no apparent benefits compares to a normal ea...

17/08/2020

A great article about how to grow muscle mass and how long it takes to see results 💪

What to expect when you start lifting weights.