Virgin Active Australia Launches New Global Fitness Direction

“Nearly twenty years ago, we launched Virgin Active with an aim to help everyone live a healthy and active lifestyle, and the understanding that life sometimes gets in the way," Richard Branson explains. "Fast forward to today and our lives are even more demanding and fast-paced than ever. To start and stick to exercise, people…

ByThe Carousel15/10/20180Comments

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How to Cure That Pesky, Nagging Headache at Work

Nothing will bring your productivity to a grinding halt quite like a headache. Tension headaches are the most common of the up to 150 different types of headaches - they cause mild to moderate pain and can make it hard to concentrate. While a tension headache will go away on its own over time,…

ByThe Carousel08/10/20180Comments

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Transitioning – What Happens If I Leave It Too Late?

Over the course of our lives, we go through a number of significant transitioning periods. Going to school, primary to secondary, leaving school, going to University / getting a job / doing some study, getting promoted, changing jobs, starting your own business, children, selling your business and retirement; how many of these areas do we…

ByPaul Farmer20/09/20180Comments

Fitness Health Technology

Back In The Game: Samsung and Netball Australia’s Newest Fitness Series

'Back in the Game' is a programme made to promote and share experiences that encourage people to achieve active and healthy lifestyles. It connects Australia's top athletes with audiences and is led by Samsung's netball role models Laura Geitz, Sharni Layton, and Caitlin Bassett. The series revolves around the topics on nutrition, fitness, and well-being with…

ByThe Carousel30/08/20180Comments

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Meet Australia’s Inspiring Marathon Man, Trent Morrow

Introducing Trent Morrow, Australia’s Marathon Man who has completed more marathons than any other Australian in history and holds a World Record for running the most marathons across 7 continents in 1 year, and he’s not stopping there! By the end of the year, Trent aims to bring his total number of marathons to 350 in…

ByThe Carousel29/08/20180Comments

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Take A Brain-check With The Mind Makeover Retreat

Change your life in ways you may never have thought possible on The Mind Makeover Retreat, the latest pioneering retreat launched by Health and Fitness Travel, the wellness holiday specialists. Led by international master of mind-improvement and celebrity coach, Steve McKeown, this ground-breaking wellness retreat promotes positive mental well-being and launches this September at the luxurious Macdonald Monchique Resort…

ByThe Carousel21/08/20180Comments

Wellness & Health

Sally Obermeder’s 5 Top Tips To Living A Healthy Lifestyle

TV host, blogger and best selling author Sally Obermeder discusses her top tips for living a healthy lifestyle... Tip 1 - Make exercise a habit I try to think of exercise like brushing my teeth, it's something you just to, every day. You don't have to punish yourself, just a little…

BySally Obermeder10/04/20180Comments

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Tummy Troubles: Why What’s In Your Gut Matters

A healthy gut supports overall health and wellbeing in many important ways. The gut plays many more functions than simply digestion, and is closely linked to the health of many other systems within our body. For example, approximately 80 per cent of the immune system is located within the gut. Frequently referred to as an…

ByRebekah Russell01/02/20180Comments

Health Survey Shows The Serious Side Of Bladder Leakage

Eight in 10 Australian women affected by bladder leakage fail to seek help for the problem, with 72 per cent preferring to laugh off the health issue, according to new health figures. A national health survey of 1,000 women aged 30 years and older found that, although they were prepared to admit to bladder leakage in…

ByThe Carousel06/07/20170Comments

Mood and Mind Wellness & Health

10 Steps To Projecting Confidence And Boosting Self-Esteem

It seems strange and incomprehensible, but sometime in the near future, the issues you have now and worry about most, will be the things you laugh hysterically about with your friends later on. It’s true. Being considered cool by others requires you to follow a simple formula. First of all you need to like yourself and…

ByThe Carousel05/07/20170Comments