Category / Improving Fitness
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Heart Rate Training

Monitoring your heart rate during exercise is a fantastic way to judge the intensity of your workout. It also provides you with some excellent information as to how much your fitness is improving from session to session, day to day or week to week.

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What’s all the fuss about CrossFit?

CrossFit South Melbourne

CrossFit is hugely popular worldwide at present with over 2000 facilities offering CrossFit training. With this kind of rapid growth and popularity comes much speculation, criticism and acclaim. Unfortunately, most people don’t understand what CrossFit is and isn’t. Let’s dig a little deeper. What is CrossFit? The CrossFit training program is a revolution in modern [...]

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Test yourself and your fitness

Fitness testing is really important when undertaking a fitness program as it gives an idea of your base fitness. This base fitness then allows an exercise instructor to provide feedback on your progress or the success of a training program. The idea of performing fitness testing prior to undertaking an exercise program is to identify [...]

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High Intensity Workouts Away From The Gym

If you find yourself extremely busy with work and other aspects of life, it doesn’t have to affect your fitness goals. It is always possible to get a good workout without having to head to the gym and can be completed in a short period of time. The key is, of course, intensity.

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Why do we puff and pant during exercise?

Do you ever drive past and look at people running along and think “How do they make it look so easy? How come their not puffing and panting? How can they run for 2 hours and I can only run for 2 minutes? ” The key is oxygen!