Fitness

So you wanna go wild? Make sure you have the hiking right gear. Start here, with five of our fave editor-tested items… 1 Hi-Tec Lady Desna Jacket Don’t let anything rain on your parade (aka hike). This jacket is waterproof, but still breathable with all the necessary ventilation. Plus, the design has incorporated reflective elements

Just started mountain biking and want to improve your skills? Or maybe you’re doing your first mountain biking race? Here are 10 top mountain biking tips from SA pro and coach Sarah Hill. Elite mountain biker Sarah Hill is based in Joburg, but competes all over the country… and world. She and her partner won the

This is box title Managing fitness employees starts with a self-aware manager. Great managers build trust and respect with their staff through good listening and communication. Recognizing and affirming employees for their hard work goes a long way! A fitness manager must always be learning and keeping up with new trends. Almost everyone is striving

Flabby arms are the bane of many, especially if you want to wear short-sleeved dresses and tops. Women’s Health Next Fitness Star finalist and certified personal and group fitness instructor Renché Seyffert has a home exercise programme that’ll get your arms in shape for summer. Perform 12-15 reps of each move with as little rest

Get the Basics… Practical Experience is a Necessary Complement to Formal Education Understanding and Digesting Come Before Implementing and Integrating Building Customization into Your Program Design for Athletes Starting your own fitness business is an enormous endeavor that will be challenging and time-consuming. That challenge will be even more difficult if you think you know

If there’s one part of your fitness wardrobe you shouldn’t be snoep about, it’s your shoes. Budget tights might get you far, but shoes that don’t fit well and aren’t properly designed for your chosen activity can hamper your performance, give you blisters and even set you up for injury. Noted… buuut it’s also getting

Get the Basics… There are two types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic Set achievable goals and a reasonable plan that inspires the client Keep workouts fun and interesting and the mood positive Build community in the gym and team unity so relationships and accountability drive motivation Work towards intrinsic motivation so clients experience results past

Get the Basics… Pursue Mentorship Practice Positive Mentality Prepare Methodically Starting a fitness practice that has lasted over three decades and that has given one access to hundreds of celebrities and athletes is quite an achievement and liable to make one arrogant and complacent. John Bezerra, however, is not your typical celebrity trainer. Despite the

Get the Basics… Fitness and Fun Fitness and Fact-Checking Fitness and Food Fitness and Fear of Failure There’s an old quote attributed to John D. Rockefeller stating, “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” This adage hints at the potential dangers of going into business with close friends and

Get the Basics… Research the best fitness practices Evaluate the best fitness practices Combine the best fitness practices Implement the best fitness practices There’s an old quote attributed to John D. Rockefeller stating, “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” This adage hints at the potential dangers of going

All right, ’fess up — how often do you wash your workout gear: After every single sweat session? Every couple of trips to the gym? Whenever you start noticing a stench lingering on your favourite high-waisted leggings? Nobody’s here to preach about how you should be sudsing up after anytime you sweat. Truth is, there’s no

TBH, doing a triceps dip can be pretty tricky. But I’m going to teach you everything you need to know about the upper-body exercise — the benefits, form tips, variations, and more! The basic triceps dip is a bodyweight exercise. Translation: it’s a move that uses your own mass as a tool to build muscle,

What do you call a trail runner in a tutu and a pink wig? You call it Cally Silberbauer. I’m a sucker for dress-up parties. You know that scene in Mean Girls where Cady goes all-out for that Halloween party? That would 100% be me. So when I heard that the Namaqualand Flower Festival does not

CEO and co-creator of the POUND fitness movement (the first and only full-body drumming workout) Kirsten Potenza, who’s based in the USA, is all about making exercise fun. POUND workouts have become popular globally, and if it sounds familiar to you, it’s probably because, in 2017, it was introduced to South Africa in various Virgin

Get the Basics… From Urban Planner to Fitness Professional Serving Seniors in Fitness Quest of Constant Improvement Choosing to start your own fitness business is a hard mountain to climb even if you’ve always known from a child that you wanted to run your own health club. Making the decision to become a fitness professional

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the words twitch and muscle? Spasms, perhaps. You’d hardly be alone in thinking that. But when it comes to fitness, it’s most commonly associated with fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles, the two main types of muscle fibres that are activated whenever you exercise, or

Get the Basics… The Pursuit of Progress and Evolution Lifestyle Transformation through Habit Building Mutual Trust as Foundation of Training Relationship Finding the proper motivation to start and finish a workout can be difficult, cant’ it? Choosing to take the plunge and start your own fitness business can be an even more daunting task with

Hands up if you’re a fitness-tracker-toting gal. Then we bet you can relate to at least one of these last-ditch attempts to get in those 10 000 steps… “I Run Midnight Laps Around My House” “So, confession time: I count steps on an app not a gadget (totes old school), so I often don’t realise

Started cycling and experiencing butt pain, numbness or saddle sores? My personal journal with butt pain I’ve been cycling for just over two years and I’ve become well-acquainted with my butt during this time. The truth is, your butt always hurts in the beginning. Like with any new sport, your body has to get used