Secrets To Preventing Holiday Weight Gain This Season

As the holiday season draws near, many people are going to start to get slightly anxious about the potential chance of packing on a few too many extra pounds with all the goodies and beverages floating around.   It may feel like everywhere you turn there’s something to tempt your taste buds and challenge your ability [...]

Flaxseeds: What You Should Know About This Superfood

Flaxseeds are one of the top ‘superfoods’ you might want to consider incorporating into your daily healthy eating regime, as there are so many good benefits to be taken from them.. but what are they and why should you include them in your daily healthy eating plan. Flaxseeds are jam packed with good nutrition and [...]

How To Beat A Fat Loss Plateau

Struggling to see further progress with your workout or diet program? Feel frustrated that what you were doing seemed to be working and all of a sudden all progress has stopped? If you’re stuck in a rut, congratulations, you’ve just reached a fat loss plateau. Fat loss plateaus are all too common among those doing [...]

Nicky Arthur – Designer Physique’s newest Ambassador

Nicky Arthur

Yoga Teacher, Author, Coach, Motivational Speaker and now Designer Physique’s newest Ambassador

Avoid Overtraining With This One Technique

If you’re serious about making the most of your workout program and moving closer and closer to your long-term fitness results, one thing that you have to be extra careful of and make sure to avoid is overtraining. Overtraining can be a very real and serious issue for some people and could take weeks if [...]

Exercise Pairings To Kick-Start Your Metabolism Into High Gear

If you are currently working out, or been around the gym long enough, you would have inevitably either heard of, or been doing, supersets with your weights. This is when you pair two different muscle groups together one after the other generally in between your reps. Supersets are a perfect way to force the muscles [...]

Six Pack Ab Success: Your Step-By-Step Guide

If you’re someone who’s on a mission to get six pack abs, it’s going to be vitally important that you have a good plan in place.  Only those who are able to properly formulate a game plan to reach this goal are going to arrive at the end stage as getting six pack abs doesn’t [...]

Tomorrows Diet Never Comes – 5 Golden Rules to Weight Loss

So you’ve made the decision to lose weight or cut out sugar or start exercising, but it’s no point starting mid way through the day so you put it off until tomorrow.   You wake bright eyed and busy tailed the next day with all good intentions and then someone or something crops up and puts [...]

Prevention of Muscle Mass Decline – Find Out How You Can Delay This Effect of Aging

By Kerry  Fitzgibbon Oh dear.. if getting wrinkles, grey hairs and sagging everything wasn’t enough.. Imagine my shock when I discovered my once muscley arms had turned to jelly!!!  Ok it does seem a little unfair, as other than the lack of muscle, I am slim, run most days of the week and try and [...]

How to Stay Motivated to Exercise in the Winter Months

Winter weight gain is a common problem with many putting on extra kilograms over the cooler months!  Let’s face it most of the mammal kingdom put on an extra layer of fat for survival and to keep warm and we certainly are no exception to the rule! It’s often hard to get motivated to train and [...]

Improve Your Body Image to Aid Long Term Weight Loss

If you are overweight you know how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off.  You’ve probably tried many diets and may have even lost a little weight but it never seems to stay off for too long and you end up really frustrated, this can lead to depression and a vicious cycle [...]

Don’t Be a Victim of Emotional Eating – Be Free of the Temptation to Binge

Have you been trying to lose weight over a long time without any success? Do you start all sorts of fad diets only to give up on them within a short while? If your eating habits are characterized by periods of deprivation followed by binges then you are unlikely to lose any weight at all. [...]

Long Term Weight Loss – It Is Possible If You Know How

Long term weight loss is the only effective way of keeping fat from coming back on but it is also very difficult to achieve. People who take short cuts to lose weight tend to pile the pounds on back again. If you suffer from a fluctuating weight problem then you are certainly in for trouble because [...]

Get Active and Live a Healthy Life

If you’re active, you don’t need to exercise every day, or constantly watch your diet to live a healthy, happy lifestyle according to personal trainer Rob Quatro. Some might say Quatro is a little controversial, but he is helping turn lives around with his refreshing approach to health and fitness and his 10 week mentoring [...]

Detoxification – Unlocking the Secrets to Good Health

One of the realities of modern life is that we are surrounded by toxins in the very air we breathe and the food and water we consume. The body tends to store these toxins which naturally cause a whole lot of health problems ranging from immunity related ailments to cancer. Detoxification is therefore a very [...]

Nutrition and Exercise – A Power Packed Combo for Weight Loss

Having the desire to lose weight is necessary.  Check.  Having a plan in place is also necessary.  Check?  Well, truth is, most people don’t really have a solid plan when it comes right down to it.  Isn’t that sort of the reason why there are so many of us trying to lose that pesky 5 [...]