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- 5.5 Ways to Change the Shape of Your Body - Fast!
- Expert Answers: Spin Classes and RPM Classes. How Many Calories Will I Burn? And Other Questions.
- How to Improve Core Stability Part 2 - The Spinal Neutral Test
- How to Improve Core Stability Part 4: Functional Exercises - The Plank and Its Wacky Variations
- Last Minute Preparation for a Marathon, Half Marathon or Fun Run
- Over 50s Exercise - Seniors Training With Logan Franklin
- Take the Body Type Test- What Body Type are You?
- Workout Music: Music for Your Ipod to Listen to While Exercising
- Crazy Fitness Crazes, Fads, and Gadgets
- Running: Working Out Your Race Pace With McMillan's Calculator
- Workout Music: Amelia’s Workout Playlist for Your Ipod
- When is the Best Time of Day to Eat?
- Why Aren’t I Losing Weight? Reasons Why You Are Exercising But Not Losing Weight
- The Fat Tax. Is it the Answer to Our Obesity Epidemic?
- Do You Have Adrenal Fatigue?
- Celebrity Diet Fads
- 7 ways to lose weight subliminally in the kitchen
- Can You Be Fit at Any Size?
- Tips to get motivated and stay motivated
- Body fat and Composition Scales: Tanita BC1000 Product Review
- Phaedra: Dear Amelia You should think twice before recommending kangaroo to eat. Do some
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- Pooja: I really need to lose weight, starting to feel my confidence level go down as we
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- Byron Bay Beach Weddings: Are you planning a wedding soon? Have you booked a beach venue for your big day?
- amber: ill be starting the new year to be healthy and lose some weight, and using your
Increasing Bone Strength. Exercise and Diet Tips for all Ages
14 November 2010 10:03 am
When we’re in our twenties and thirties often the last thing we think about is the health of our bones, yet one in two women over forty are worried about developing weak or brittle bones. It’s a sharp increase and that’s because osteoporosis affects over 2 million Australians every year. So maybe we should be paying more attention to our skeletons! Here Kerri-Anne and I discuss some of the crucial factors affecting bone strength (attention all those dieters who think milk is the enemy!). I explain my top diet tips for calcium intake, as well as my favourite exercises to help slow down bone loss as we age.
Tagged As: Bone, Kerry Anne Kennerly, osetoporosis
How to Measure Your Waist and What it Means?
9:43 am
Editors Note: This post is written by our elite performance specialist Andrew Verdon. Andrew has completed a Diploma in Exercise Science, Certificate IV in Fitness, Level 1 Strength Coaching Qualifications with ASCA. He is currently completing a Post Grad Diploma in Applied Science (Elite Sports Training) and will go on to do a Masters in Recovery.
Want a really simple way to check your body fat levels and the level of health risk this could put you at? Here is a reliable and easy test you can do at home with a tape measure (and a note pad).
With a tape measure held horizontal take it around your waist at the level of your belly button. Keep your tummy muscles relaxed and take the measure. The most accurate way to get the measure is to get someone to hold the tape and sight the measure on the right hand side- not the front. If you doing it by yourself then place your finger on the number on the right of your body and let the tape go and record where your finger was- simple!
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Tagged As: waist measurement, Weight loss
Can Foodies Be Fit? Matt Preston Battles the Bulge with Me
13 November 2010 10:30 pm
Read the Full New Idea Article here.
Recently New Idea Magazine has uncovered Matt Preston’s latest project – weight loss! He has enlisted yours truly to train him both face to face and online as he strips off 25kg and embarks on the quest to go from fat foodie, to fit foodie! New idea (23rd August 2010), and has outlined my training plan, nutrition plan and Detox that Matt has embarked on. Watch this space for more updates as we embark on what will no doubt be a whirlwind adventure between the Fitness Freak and the Foodie.
Tagged As: Amelia Burton, Foodie, Masterchef, Matt Preston, Weight loss