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Exercise, Posture & Rehab

Exercise, fitness, posture & rehabilitation.

exercise

Exercise helps people to keep their weight at an optimal level and can help to lower the risk of some diseases. Exercising to maintain a healthy weight decreases a person’s risk of developing certain diseases, including type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.

What are the benefits of regular exercise? It tends to increase appetite, reduce constipation, and promote quality sleep. The benefits of exercise diminish within months after a person stops exercising. Heart strength, muscle strength, and the level of HDL cholesterol decrease, whereas blood pressure and body fat increase.

 

The importance of good posture cannot be stressed enough in modern times. It extends far beyond our outward appearance and aesthetics. Posture refers to our body’s alignment and positioning with respect to gravity. Gravity exerts a force on our joints, ligaments and muscles whether we are standing, sitting or lying down. Good posture distributes this force through our body with minimal muscular effort and so that no one structure is overstressed. Sitting or standing with proper postural alignment allows us to work more efficiently with less fatigue and strain on our body’s ligaments and muscles.

Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra is described as the waking sleep, as it can take the participant to a state of conscious deep sleep. It is a systematic method of inducing complete physical, emotional and mental relaxation. The practitioner appears to be sleeping but the unconscious mind is functioning at a deeper level. It...
yoga teacher
Finding downdog difficult? You could be in the wrong class! Here are the top 5 tips for choosing the right yoga teacher. The rise of yoga in Australia has been meteoric in recent years. A 2015 study in the American College of Sports Medicine has found yoga has climbed from 20th to...
how to improve your immune system
I’m sure by now you’ve either used one yourself or seen these long or short cylinders, they are most often blue. You would have most likely seen them at physio, chiro, in the gym, Pilates or even watching sportspeople train or play. They are being rolled onto various parts of...
Performance
Participation in something athletic is a great way of keeping active; whether it’s a round of golf with business colleagues, going to the gym to do weights or yoga, jogging along the waterfront, tennis, swimming or biking at the weekend. Conditioning to improve performance is the best way to achieve...
Core Stability
Core Stability is a frequently used phrase in the health, fitness and the sporting industries. But when I look around at the quality of training that presents itself, I can see that training the "Core" is a very misunderstood subject. What Is The Core? If you take away your arms, legs...