Find it hard to train on holidays? Sick of doing the same old exercises all the time? Want to stretch your imagination and try something new? Maybe you should join the resistance! You may have seen what looks like large coloured rubber bands in the gym. No, these aren’t taken…

I was born like that. It runs in my family. I got it from my mama. Have you ever heard or said these before? We all have genetic traits that we have inherited from our parents and grandparents and so on. Adaptations occur over generations and are passed on through…

One of the most common muscles injured in sport is the hamstring, as the hamstring muscles are very susceptible to tears and strains. Hamstring injuries are most common among sports that require a high degree of speed, power and agility such as soccer, basketball, tennis and football to name a…

High blood pressure & hypertension High blood pressure (or hypertension) is the most common of all the conditions of the circulatory system. Blood pressure is the force exerted by the blood against the walls of blood vessels, and the magnitude of this force depends on the cardiac output and the…

Fun in the sun! As you all have probably noticed, the weather is heating up, and with summer just around the corner and all the beautiful days we have been experiencing lately there is no excuse for you to be stuck indoors all the time. Just being outside is a…

Matthew* started personal training with Jarrat and Nicola at Longevity Personal Training and Exercise Physiology in September 2015. He had a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 31.2, a body fat percentage of 31.0% and a body mass of 102.3kgs. 13 months later, Matthew reached his goal Body Mass Index (BMI)…

Following an interesting conversation with a client on Monday, I thought it would be good to do a blog about a specific science related topic which is definitely applicable to those of us who keep ‘unusual’ hours in their lifestyle (frequent travellers anyone?). Hope you enjoy this one! Do you…

This article recounts the beautiful story of a person that, from the depths of depression, decided to stand up for what’s right. From a near-death state, Stav decided to turn her life around, and against all expectations, run the Athens marathon. This is the story of how Stav managed to…