Welcome Grayson, Longevity’s new Exercise Physiologist!

At Longevity PT we take our responsibility to be healthy and fit role models very seriously. Video 1 includes 3 members of our team (Jarrat, James and Jack) during the first round of a 40min paired workout at Hive Active, Lindfield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfT9vDZu1ZE   Video 2 is one of the final rounds of the workout about 35mins in. I think…

Strength Training 101:

I’ve blogged before about the 4 sessions everyone should be doing to improve their cardiovascular fitness. This week I take a look at the basics of strength training and give my top tips for putting together an effective training program. First of all, I feel it is important to point out why strength training is important. Strength or resistance training promotes muscle cell growth (hypertrophy), increases bone density, prevents muscle wastage with age (sarcopenia) and bone loss with age (osteopenia and osteoporosis). Resistance training has been proven to be beneficial for people of all ages and genders. The difficult part is knowing what to do and how much of it to do. Here is a great starting guide:

The team at Longevity Personal Training and Exercise Physiology Edgecliff, Lindfield, Marrickville and Randwick strive to achieve client and personal bests. On 10/11/19, team member, Mitchell Hooper competed at the National Powerlifting Titles in Perth.   Mitchell came 1st in his 120kg weight class with outstanding results, achieving 2 national records! Congratulations Mitch!   Squat:…

Injury Management 101

As a personal trainer, you get a terrific perspective on people’s lives through shared experiences. This week has given me pause to think about the trials and tribulations we all face. We are all prone to a setback here and there. We all have birthdays, parties, Christmas, New Year, Easter, the list goes on. We all get colds. We all get the occasional flu. We all have personal emergencies, relationship trouble, work stress. And we all get injured. Whether you’re a professional athlete or a couch potato. Throughout your life you will often have times when you have a muscle, bone, joint, tendon or ligament injury. Not to mention the variety of all other medical setbacks, check-ups, tests, procedures and surgeries.

This article delivers to you the basics of how to manage those injuries appropriately and safely, to not only recover but MAXIMISE your recovery.

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: