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Foundation Series: Training

Training is what the body needs to adapt and develop. Consider that without sunlight plants struggle to grow, similarly, without training our bodies will not develop and grow much.

Your body needs training as a stimulus to take it outside of its normal comfort zone, which ultimately means the body has to make changes to develop. You may only be able to do a bodyweight squat at the start of your training, but after the body is exposed to training consistently and repeatedly it will get stronger and you might be squatting with a barbell on your back after several weeks.
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Foundation Series: Supplementation

Supplementation is the use of specific vitamins, minerals and ingredients to achieve a targeted outcome in your health and fitness. Our current environment and lifestyles mean it is hard to get everything we need from food alone, which would be ideal, and thus the targeted use of supplements can be of benefit to your health. There are some supplements that are useful for everyone to take, and this article will elaborate upon supplement basics.

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Foundation Series: Recovery

Recovery is essential all the things that you do outside of training, it includes sleep and stress management which are vital to good health, but recovery also extends to enjoying your hobbies and making time for yourself. So getting 8 hours of sleep with good quality deep sleep is integral to recovery, as is going on a long walk which you enjoy, reading a book or spending time seeing your friends and family.

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Nutrition: Understanding we are what we eat

Nutrition is the catalyst to excellent health, strength and body composition. Nutrition is crucial for physical goals (i.e. fat loss) and more health and lifestyle-oriented goals (for example, better focus, energy, detoxification, and blood sugar control).

What we do in training needs to be matched by how we eat and recover, and the saying “we are what we eat” still holds.

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Foundation Series: Gut and Brain

The body is very highly connected and there is a link between the organs of the gut and the brain which is termed the ‘Gut-Brain Axis’. The link between the two works both ways, the gut and the things we digest can affect our brain function and similarly stresses to the nervous system can affect our gut. Research in this area originated in around 2004, and since has gained a lot of momentum in the scientific community (1), and can impact your health in numerous ways.

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The Fight against Toxins: How to Improve Your Odds

Ever feel fuzzy, have trouble concentrating or remembering things? How about problems sleeping or losing weight? You may have toxin overload.  

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Essential Tools for Recovery

Have you heard of zeitgebers before? If not, you should learn about it because it’s intrinsically linked to your health, performance, and recovery.

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Optimising Your Methylation Cycle: Why It Matters

Want to get rid of toxins? Feeling stressed? Not sleeping well? See why healthy methylation affects your overall health.
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The Gut Health Connection: What you Need to Know

Excess gas, bloating, belly discomfort after eating, problems with your poop? Think it’s all in your gut? Find out more about the gut-health connection and how to improve your health.

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Blood Sugar Management and its Effects on Your Health

Are you waking up tired, even after 8 hours of sleep? Always craving something sweet? Your blood sugar could be out of whack.

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