Exercise has long been known to be beneficial for physical health such as improving body composition, managing chronic conditions and treating acute injuries however the mental health benefits of exercise are often overlooked. With many lifestyle stressors such as financial issues, increase work hours, it...
You may often see someone at a clinic facility or gym completing training or rehabilitation with a cuff on one of their limbs. This is an occlusion cuff and it is part of a relatively new training modality called Blood Flow Restriction. The cuff reduces...
Iron deficiency is somewhat of a “silent epidemic” because the symptoms are often overlooked as “day-to-day” tiredness. If you’ve been diagnosed with low iron, you can surely relate to the feeling of fatigue that goes alongside it. So, what’s exercise got to do with it? Well,...
Almost 2.5 million Australians have now had COVID-19. Odds are, either you or someone you know has contracted the virus. We’ve had a lot of questions about returning to exercise after COVID-19, so we asked an Accredited Exercise Physiologist for their advice. Let’s face it; COVID is pretty...