fitness
Fitness regimes, advice, and trends in the Longevity health and wellness sphere.
Aerial Fitness Will Be Your New Obsession
At a young age, my mother used to take me to showcases on the Southbank and around London. She worked with the London arts council and ran her own carnivals within schools, taught dance, marked arts awards training, and generally spent a lot of time around the London creative scene. I've always been artistic, largely due to her. My grandparents on my mum's side are both artists. My dad I credit my musical ear to; he brought me up listening to every kind of music possible, took me to concerts as a child all the way through to now. I was blessed to have parents that loved the arts, and in turn, passed their love on to me.
By Samantha Bentley8 years ago in Longevity
#PointeYourFuckingToes
We've heard many of our pole teachers shout this during class even when you think your toes are pointed… it's not enough! When it comes to exercise, most people overlook two of the most important parts of their body — their feet. They train upper body, lower body, and core without even thinking to strengthen their feet. Having recently competed in Pole Theatre, a key part of my training was to improve the pointe in my feet as well as strengthen my ankles to avoid sickling (explained later), mainly because I did not want any pictures or the video to come back showing flexed feet or half a pointed toe! (Some would call this vain but I call it being a perfectionist!).
By Louise Pole8 years ago in Longevity
Top 3 Tips on How to Get a Six Pack
I haven't always been fit and healthy, I struggled with weight, fitness and health throughout school, and when I moved away from home for university I realised I was free to be who I wanted to be. I quickly decided I would join the gym, it was something I needed to do to change in my life, and I believed that it would improve my mental wellbeing and outlook on life as well as my physique and fitness. It has made a dramatic and immensely positive change in my life, and although I do an abs workout almost every gym day, I am still working on my final goal, to get my six pack.
By Gregor Findlay8 years ago in Longevity
Tomorrow Never Comes
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” It is one of the most famous quotes in the world, yet it is one we so easily forget. Humans are masters of excuses and procrastination. It can become so easy to sit back and say, “Oh, I can just get to it tomorrow.” However, when you fall into that habit, it is easy for “tomorrow” to never come.
By Vanessa Cherron Riser8 years ago in Longevity
Intermittent Fasting 101
The History of Eating Let’s backtrack a few years. More like 10,000 or so years, back to the dawn and ripening of our human civilization. For starters, we can agree that life back then was not near the glamour and advancement that life in the 21st century is today—not even close. Back then, the average life span was, on average, say twenty years. That's considering you weren't mauled by a Saber Tooth tiger or suddenly died from the common cold that, in today's world, is fixed in nearly two days with modern medicine. Clearly, life back then wasn't a walk in the park, nor was it pleasant in any shape or form. Nevertheless, we are still the same people on the insides, and in terms of our DNA structure and, more specifically, our metabolic functions. As a kid, I’m sure most of us were taught the famous "Darwin’s theory” and how, through natural selection and random variation, the genetic sequences cause us to, in a sense, "upgrade" our DNA and become more fit for survival. For the most part, this is true. Our evolution since the dawn of our civilization has made us a taller species, immune to many of the viruses and plagues that originally wiped out half of our population, a larger brain to body ratio (a sign of greater intelligence), and many others. Despite these changes in our genetic code, the one thing that has had little change since the start is our diet. Back in the early days of our species, we were hunter gatherers. Now you may be asking yourself why the f*** does that matter and why I’m talking a bunch of nonsense and when am I going to start talking about diet already. Well, this is where it comes from...
By Scott Taylor8 years ago in Longevity
Review: Sweatcoin
I initially downloaded 'Sweatcoin', sceptically may I add, a week or so ago, having seen a friend post about it on Snapchat. The app boasts the ability to pay you as you get fit as it hands out its individual cryptocurrency, 'sweatcoins,' for every step you take, which can in turn be exchanged for various goods on the sweatcoin market.
By Hannah Marland8 years ago in Longevity
