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Congratulations to all of our clients and contenders in the City2Surf this year. I want to dedicate this post to everyone who took part in the City2Surf last Sunday and performed so well. It’s one of my favourite Sunday mornings of the year as the text messages of results roll in and there is always a little story behind everyone’s performance. Click ‘read more’ for the full wrap:

The countdown to Christmas is on — the parties, the food, the chaos, the “I’ll start next year” promises… sound familiar? But here’s a little secret: you don’t have to wait for January 1st to start taking care of your health. In fact, there’s no better time than now. At Longevity Exercise Physiology, we’re here to help you finish the…

Have you brought yourself or a loved one a massage gun, or have you received one as a gift? There are so many options to pick from, with people saying it’s a better option than heading to the stores for a massage.   Today, Annabel and the Longevity Exercise Physiology teams at Drummoyne, Edgecliff, Marrickville, Bella Vista, Randwick, Pymble, Balmain…

You might recognise the image above from your favourite social media platform. This image went viral and was a demonstration by Melanie Ventura about how easy it is to fake a before and after shot. You can read about how Melanie did this by clicking here. 

Also this week a friend of mine (thanks Kelly) wrote an enthusiastic and well constructed rant regarding the (health and) fitness industry.

“Rant: The fitness industry promotes a sort of body fetishism that produces a strategy for narcissistic survival and supposed emancipation, but that is simply bringing about a ‘cultural revolution’ that reproduces the very worst features of the constrained and superficial civilisation that the industry seeks to criticise. Fitness is not about youth and sexiness. It’s about fitness. Stop showing me sexy people who happen to have abs and can lift their foot above their botoxed face without sweating. Show me someone who can do their first triathlon, or who has put off osteoporosis for another 10 years.”

The unfortunate truth is that this argument is one that I find very difficult to refute.

The Longevity exercise physiology team at Edgecliff, Marrickville, Randwick, Lindfield and Drummoyne take another look at fuel selection and how it is affected by intensity. In part 1 of this blog series, we covered exercise duration and fuel selection in 0-5 second, 5-30 second and 30-60 second efforts. This is the amount of time it takes…