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Strength Training for Long-Distance Runners
Today, Longevity Exercise Physiology Drummoyne, Edgecliff, Marrickville, Bella Vista, Randwick, Pymble, Balmain, Neutral Bay, Coburg – Melbourne, and Barrie, Ontario – Canada discuss strength training for long distance runners. Strength training is any form of exercise involving resistance or weights. Strength training builds muscle size and strength and protects your bones and joints. Long distance…
Meet Longevity’s newest team member, Stuart!
Longevity Exercise Physiology is excited to introduce our newest team member, Stuart. Stewart is the Exercise Physiologist working out of our Longevity Exercise Physiology Coburg, Melbourne location. Stuart has experience across elite sport, private practice and occupational rehabilitation. He is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist and Exercise Scientist after completing a Bachelors…
Bell’s Broadcast: Routine… is it important for exercise?
To ensure that we set good exercise habits, it is important to have good routine. Everyone at some stage will find it hard to get into an effective exercise routine or even maintain their current habits due to day-to-day commitments. If we do fall out of our routine, it is…
Ask Annabel… “I don’t have time to exercise”: Is it a Myth or Reality?
“I don’t have enough time to exercise” is one of the most common reasons people use to justify why they cannot participate in exercise. But is being too busy to exercise a genuine problem or just an excuse? The real reason people aren’t working towards their health and fitness goals…
Osteoporosis and exercise
Today, Longevity Exercise Physiology Drummoyne, Edgecliff, Marrickville, Bella Vista, Randwick, Pymble, Balmain, Neutral Bay and Coburg, Melbourne, discuss the effects of and how exercise can help people living with osteoporosis and osteopenia. It is estimated that 924,000 Australians have osteoporosis, roughly 3.8% of the population. This number jumps to…
Ask Annabel… Smart Watches – they are popular but are they accurate?
Wearable devices have dominated the market in the last couple of years for fitness monitoring and other health related metrics – however the accuracy of these trackers still plays a large role in health promotion. Data that is collected by these fitness trackers could help in improving the health and…
International Men’s Health Week
Today, Longevity Exercise Physiology teams at Drummoyne, Edgecliff, Marrickville, Bella Vista, Randwick, Pymble, Balmain, Neutral Bay, Coburg – Melbourne and Barrie, Ontario – Canada reflect on International Men’s Health Week. International Men’s Health Week is an initiative to increase the awareness of preventable health conditions, mentally and physically. This includes improving knowledge surrounding the availability…
Scoliosis & Exercise
Longevity Exercise Physiology Drummoyne, Edgecliff, Marrickville, Bella Vista, Randwick, Pymble, Balmain, Neutral Bay, Coburg – Melbourne and Barrie, Ontario – Canada discuss scoliosis and exercise. Scoliosis is a term used to describe any abnormal, sideways curvature of the spine found either in the lumbar, thoracic, and/or cervical spinal column regions (Day et al., 2019). A typical…