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Exercise is beneficial both during and after cancer treatment or recovery. Longevity Exercise Physiology Drummoyne, Edgecliff, Marrickville, Bella Vista, Randwick, Pymble, Balmain and Neutral Bay  discuss the many benefits of exercising after cancer and how you can get started.    Cancer survival rates vary from cancer to cancer, but overall survival rates are improving (AIHW, 2021). Exercise has been shown…

Today, Ketki, an Exercise Physiologist at the Longevity Pymble location shares why she decided to work for Longevity. ‘There are a multitude of reasons to transition from one job to another. My previous few roles as an Exercise Physiologist, while valuable in many aspects, lacked the alignment with my core values and beliefs. I had…

“Is morning or evening the best time to work out?” It’s one of the most common questions we get at Longevity — and one that’s surrounded by myths and misinformation. You’ve probably heard it all: Here’s the truth: there’s no one-size-fits-all answer — and chasing the “perfect time” to work out might actually be holding…

I love hearing from people who are experts in the field and asking them about the little quirks of life that their experience has given them a certain controversial opinion on. I recall a conversation with a surgeon who mentioned he would never want to own or encourage anyone he knows to buy a motorcycle given that he has been responsible for harvesting organs from a number of motorcycle fatalities throughout his career. I recall hearing that according to author Jared Diamond, Papua New Guinean tribes never sleep under dead trees and he was able to decipher that a significant number of people in Papua New Guinea are killed by falling trees and branches every year. In his own life he likens this risk to having a car accident or falling in the bathroom and consequently is now exceedingly careful in these areas of his life. So if you ask an experienced personal trainer what do overweight people have in common, what would he say. Well, here is my list and yes it is controversial and includes some generalisations but I bet you or someone you know falls into many of these weight gain traps:

Hi everyone! I’m Ryan, one of Longevity’s newest interns. I’m a third year Exercise Physiology student at the University of Sydney, and I am three weeks into my time as an intern at the Edgecliff location.  Coming into the internship, I was a bit worried about my time, as I know working while being a…

About 3 years ago following my 60^th birthday my GP recommended I have a comprehensive heart check. Although I felt fine, it disclosed that a lifetime of relatively sedentary but stressful work, sporadic exercise and undisciplined eating and drinking, had wrought the usual havoc-moderate coronary and carotid artery disease, blood pressure and body weight outside normal limits. 

Although the treating doctors did not suggest I was about to die, they prescribed a pot pourri of daily medications and gently hinted that changing my life style might be a good idea-otherwise…. I was, however, quite shocked: whatever remained of my youthful illusion of immortality vanished overnight. I was just another middle aged (elderly?) male on the downhill slide to oblivion. In short it was a wakeup call.

By chance I stumbled into the Regenesis Gym at Edgecliff and met up with Jarrat Wood, Personal Trainer.