The results of Harvard’s epic 75-year-long Grant

Our team is always growing! This week our Longevity Exercise Physiology Drummoyne, Edgecliff, Marrickville, Castle Hill, Randwick, Pymble, Kingsgrove,Neutral Bay and Coburg teams asked Grace, Accredited Exercise Physiologist at Edgecliff, to give us some insights into her first year of Exercise Physiology work. My first year at Longevity – Grace’s Experience It’s hard to believe it’s already been 8 months since…

Meet Alice! Alice is one of our Longevity clients at our Marrickville location. She has been a part of the Longevity family and has been reaching milestone after milestone for 2 years now. Why is Alice doing the City2Surf with Longevity – has she done it before? Alice set one of her goals this year…

Talking About Glutes Following on from our hamstring blog, we’re now going to discuss the role of the glutes in the body. We will discuss the difference between the 3, their importance in injury prevention, athletic development and especially rehabilitation. At Longevity in  Edgecliff, Lindfield, Marrickville and Randwick, we often have clients coming to us with knee pain, hip…

While bread is an excellent source of carbohydrates, fibre and energy, try to choose the healthier varieties – heavier, darker and grainier. http://bit.ly/1SFss3v

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.

Longevity Exercise Physiology Drummoyne,Edgecliff, Marrickville,Bella Vista, Randwick, Lindfield and Balmain are Registered NDIS Providers and love helping Participants improve their lives through structured Exercise Physiology treatment. We currently do this by offering gym based, home visits and telehealth sessions. Starting an exercise program when having a disability can be challenging for some, however with guidance from…