Sarah Clasen admits it: She doesn’t have the motivation to exercise by herself. She has good intentions but they never eventuate. Her thinking changed when she found her exercise motivation; she joined a fitness boot camp.
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Superwoman with SUPERPOWERS
How does a woman go from being an average every day woman to an unstoppable Superwoman? One who can destroy anything in her path, can ensure that everything she touches turns to gold, and to capture the hearts and minds of all of those she comes in contact with?
ACT Now: HOW ACCEPTANCE COMMITMENT THERAPY CAN HELP YOU REACH YOUR GOALS
Even the most dedicated athletes and fitness professionals can find it hard to maintain motivation. Whether it’s losing those last few kilos to increase your performance, or encouraging your clients to maintain a healthy weight, there will be times when the going gets tough. How you handle those challenges is the key to your success and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) may be just what you need to succeed.
POWERHOUSE WOMEN: HEALTHY WOMEN BUILD HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
One of the biggest health issues facing our nation is the obesity epidemic. It’s fast becoming a public health crisis. In fact, obesity rates have more than doubled in Australia in the past 20 years and alarmingly, more and more of these people are children.
YOUR DESTINATION: FITNESS GOALS
Hands up how many of you have, at some stage in your life, not managed to reach your fitness goals. How many of us make plans for a fitter future with bounding enthusiasm and a host of admirable, but strangely familiar goals? Familiar because they were the same goals we set for ourselves 12 months ago.
WIN OR LOSE, YOU CHOOSE. The mind dynamics for peak performance.
Every morning when you wake up you have the power to choose your thoughts and decisions for the day – your attitude, your diet, your exercise routine, who you spend time with, etc. These decisions shape your destiny and create the world you live in, and it is vital you understand that winning or losing is a process that can be learnt and inserted into our blueprint.
DIGITAL THREATS FOR THE FITNESS INDUSTRY
The concept of the ‘screen environment’ is a hot topic among many modern scientists. According to some statistics, the average 12-year-old racks up: 7,000 to 8,000 hours in the classroom; 9,000 within the family environment; and as many as 19,000 hours in front of a screen, be it watching television, playing computer games and/ or communicating via social networking sites.
MAKING STRESS WORK FOR YOU
The biology of why we do and don’t perform our best. Our brains are incredibly fussy machines. They need precisely the right amount of stress to perform at their best, and when they don’t – when we are not mentally ‘on our game’ – it has huge impacts on performance.
The Success Recipe
While we used to be able to get by on talent alone to become hugely successful, 25 years later, the recipe for success has increasingly more ingredients.
Face the future by Training your Internal Warrior!
Most of you reading this article engage in some sort of physical activity or exercise routine on a daily basis. We pound our bodies day after day by running, punching, lifting, swimming or whatever you do to stay fit, to ensure we look amazing on the outside. We spend hours per week ensuring we have a great physical exercise regime and we
stick to it with stealth like precision; we are conditioned to make sure we get this physical exercise completed before the weekend, because if we miss a workout we often feel guilty and not our normal selves.
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