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As we step into the new year, we’re reflecting on the holiday season and the well-deserved breaks our team enjoyed. From exciting adventures overseas to quality time spent with loved ones closer to home, the festive period was a wonderful time of rest, connection, and making memories. Some of our team members ventured far and…

Are you a veteran looking to boost your health and longevity? The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) offers valuable services that can help you improve your physical fitness and well-being. One of the most effective ways to enhance your health is through exercise physiology, and DVA funding can help you access these services. Let’s dive…

The team at Longevity Exercise Physiology Drummoyne,Edgecliff,Marrickville,Bella Vista, Randwick, Lindfield and Balmain understand the physical strain our bodies can endure. Today, Accredited Exercise Physiologist, Angela Vitucci, discusses the benefits of being nice to your body and participating in some low intensity, low impact activity to release stress and strain on the body and making you feel…

Hopefully, if you are reading this you are becoming increasingly confident with the connection between exercise and mental health. Brock Chisholm, former Director of the World Health Organisation famously said in 1954: “without mental health there can be no true physical health.” We have known for many years that exercise improves mental health but we talk little about the actual mechanisms by which this occurs. In this article I will detail 7 mechanisms by which exercise may assist in the prevention and support the treatment of some mental health disroders. For the purposes of this broader argument, I am referring to a wide range of issues and conditions relating to mental health including: depression disorders, anxiety disorders, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Bi-polar, Al Zheimer’s and Dementia. This also includes managing stress. This article is not intended as a cure-all for mental health. It is provided as general advice. All of our programs (in particular for individuals suffering from clinically diagnosed conditions) are prepared on an individual basis and in conjunction with specific advice from mental health professionals. My hope is that you will come to see as one psychologist put it: “that exercising when you are highly stressed should be considered as appropriate as taking a panadol when you have a headache.” Read on for the 7 theories of improved mental health through exercise:

Longevity Exercise Physiology Drummoyne, Edgecliff, Marrickville, Bellam Vista, Randwick, Lindfield and Balmain today discuss why you should consider giving golf a try as a way to increase your physical activity. Our Exercise Physiologist Georgia over the Christmas break played her first ever round of golf. After 18 holes, she came to one sure conclusion, golf is hard! However, it also…