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The High Performance Benefits of Muay Thai Training

Muay Thai is one of the most sought after martial arts/sports today. This amazing martial art which originated from Thailand more than a thousand years ago has since captured the attention and interest of martial arts enthusiasts and fitness fanatics all over the world. It might be quite intimidating for some to try because it’s [...]

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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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Training High: Why do the pros do it?

There has been a lot of talk lately about high altitude training, particularly in the AFL with teams like Collingwood and North Melbourne heading overseas to try and get an added competitive advantage using this method.

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To CrossFit or not To CrossFit…

CrossFit, when mentioned in the fitness industry gets a lot of mixed responses. ‘Ooooh, it’s dangerous’ and ‘isn’t that just circuit training?’ are the most common I get, I guess it’s kind of like judging a book by its cover, and I s’pose that when all you have ever seen of CrossFit is from YouTube [...]

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Injury Prevention Strategies

  Whenever you watch sport on TV you will see at least a hand full of athletes getting injured ranging from a sprained ankle, corked thigh, hamstring strain and the list goes on! These are known as soft tissue injuries which can be mostly prevented. Soft tissue injuries involve sprains (over stretching of ligaments), strains [...]