How to perform under pressure
Have you ever succumbed to pressure after setting yourself a big task, or being involved in a challenging sporting event?
If the answer is yes, you are not alone.
Dr Google – friend or foe?
The Internet is positive for people wanting to take more interest in their health. Who hasn’t dropped in on “Dr Google” to search a health complaint? The improved access to health professionals – especially the ability to reach remote locations – is fantastic.
Seven exercise recovery secrets everyone should know
Most focus in training is on performance and technique – how to get bigger, faster, stronger, better. Yet these goals cannot be reached without proper recovery.
Five mental secrets to great exercise
How are your New Year’s fitness resolutions going? Are you still persevering, or thinking about giving up? Perhaps you’ve already thrown in the towel?
Quick guide to injury
A key to avoiding injury is understanding our bodies go through three zones during physical activity: Green, Yellow and Red Zones.
Drugs don’t work for back pain according to study – so what’s the answer?
A new study has confirmed the danger in relying too much on drugs to treat back pain.
After treating many thousands of people with back pain over the years, we at Elite Akademy aren’t surprised. We often see people who are at their wit’s end after trying drugs without any improvement.
105-year-old cyclist shows benefits from higher intensity training.
We were inspired to see the story of 105-year-old French amateur cyclist Robert Marchand. Not only is it incredible to see a centenarian on a bike, a study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology shows he is more aerobically fit than most 50-year-olds. And higher-intensity training might be playing a part.
Essential steps for avoiding holiday back pain
Every January and February we see a spike in people needing treatment for back pain which occurred on holidays. Holidays are a danger time for backs, when people either develop a new issue or exacerbate an existing one. Most ‘holiday back pain’ issues stem from either sleeping in different beds or over-exercising.
Smart strategy to make New Year fitness resolutions come true in 2017
The most common reason New Year’s resolutions fail is that people choose an exercise they don’t like.
Choosing something that you enjoy doing is absolutely critical to your chances of staying with the new exercise regime and getting the most out of it. If you enjoy the exercise, then everything flows from there.
What are your fitness ‘hotspots’ for preventing injury?
A big fitness mistake we often see when people are injured is they believe there is only ‘one’ issue at play.
If you’re feeling pain in one main area, then it’s understandable to see an injury as just that – for example, a rotator cuff issue, hamstring strain, back spasm, disc bulge/prolapse, calf strain and so on.