If there was to be a single, across the board, test that would quickly reveal how strong, fit and healthy you are and how long you are likely to remain like this in your lifespan, then the grip strength test is exactly that test. Studies show that grip strength is a strong biomarker for a…
Lifting a weight to make your muscles adapt to the resistance it presents them with and therefore grow stronger is such an intuitive thing to do when you do it that it is hard to imagine that you may need help to start. Yet, most of those of us who started lifting dumbbells have had…
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is probably the only shortcut there is when it comes to building strong muscles and losing weight. But HIIT training is also a high, external stressor that tires us out significantly, makes it harder to be able to train the next day and, if we are carrying extra weight or…
Since June 1905, when Ernest Starling, a professor of physiology at University College London, UK, first used the word ‘hormone’ in one of four Croonian Lectures[1] we’ve come to better understand the role hormones play in the control of many body functions, such as growth, mood, repair and reproduction.[2] Hormones[3] are the chemical messengers that…
Imagine never having to worry about your fitness ever again. Never having to worry about being able to physically do the things you want to do each day, never having to worry about putting weight on as you age, never having to worry about losing mobility and capability over time. And all of that without…
We’re used to qualifying workouts and, indeed, exercises, as Resistance, Cardio or Aerobic. This broad categorization is fine when we need a quick way to choose the type of exercise we are going to do but really, once we get down to it and look at things in more detail the distinctions stop being so…
The brain is the body’s most complex organ.[1] It interprets sensations, regulates emotions, controls movement and modulates behavior. It is therefore key in exercise in almost every way you can imagine: from a biomechanical point of view where signals are sent by the brain so the body can move, from a neuronal point of view…
The brain is the body’s most complex organ.[1] Part of that complexity arises from its unique architecture and function and part of it is the result of the complex bi-directional list of interactions that go on all the time between the brain and the body and the external world. While firmly locked inside the protective…
