FUNCTIONAL TRAINING WOMENS BLOG
Women's Fitness Training and Gym in Brookvale, Northern Beaches.
How much sugar is in your daily yogurt?
Happily consuming your morning yogurt with the belief you are doing your body good? Well it may not be as good for you as you think... Coach Elle delves into hidden sugars in supermarket foods like yogurt in this short video:
Listening to your body and what it’s trying to tell you may be the best thing you every do for yourself.
Your body communicates with you all the time. It tells you when your tired, when you need to refuel and hydrate, if you are getting sick and need to sleep or if you are too stressed.
However, in recent times its become clear that we deliberately ignore our bodies messages to be able to deal with modern day pressures.
Here is what I do for breakfast a lot of the time! I cook on Sunday, cut up for the week and glad wrap, then I have a delicious, nutritious breakfast every day! If you are organised it'll save you money, time and be good for you waistline! :)
Body image in our modern society is a large part of our daily life. We obsess over how we look and how we can look better.
With unrealistic expectations placed on us to reach an unachievable look, a worrying 90% of women are unhappy with their body image. This pressure causes a whole host of problems for people like eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, suicidal thoughts and general unhappiness.
Sometime if you haven't used your wrist often in training, when you start olympic lifting and gymnastics, you can find your wrist getting sore
Coach Elle reveals some great stretches for your wrists and arms which can help ease tension on your wrist at training!
15 quick questions for our Head Coach Elle Belle! Find out:
'What did she eat for breakfast?' 'How fast can she do 100 burpees?' 'What's her favourite hobby?'
And more!
Women and weightlifting – not always the prettiest picture comes to mind or even a picture at all. Well I’d like to change that.
Why?Because weightlifting is an amazing sport which has heaps of benefits to your body and mind.
Your bed feels pretty warm and fuzzy at 5am doesn’t it? It’s cold, dark and the thought of getting up makes you really angry.
However, you do have a little motivation behind wanting to train in winter. Didn’t anyone tell you?
Summer bodies are made in winter.
Mobility is an area of health and fitness, which is all too often sorely (pun intended) over looked. There are now studies, which prove how important mobility is for longevity. They show that the more mobile you are, the better quality of life you will have and the longer you will live.
