Workouts

What does it take to reach your true potential? Nic Gill, strength and conditioning coach for the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team – arguably the most successful international sports team ever – explains the value of gauging training load and the smartest way to get long-term results. EMMA HOGAN: What is training load and how do you measure […]

Modern office life – too much time on mobile phones and staring at computer screens – is giving us rounded shoulders and poor posture. This one move can help undo the damage. It’s called the Prone Cobra (great name), a simple postural improvement exercise that will strengthen all the anti-slouch muscles of your back to […]

New research suggests that pulling out your freshest dance moves could be the secret to defying time.   For many years scientists believed the brain was fully formed and at capacity from early in life. From then on, they thought, it slowly degenerated. “It was widely believed that over the course of your life you […]

If you want to shift your fitness fast, burpees will make it happen. With this one simple yet challenging move you can send your heart rate through the roof, build cardio endurance and torch fat.   Burpees are fast-paced, dynamic and never boring. You don’t need any equipment and you can do them any time, anywhere. […]

From vibrating belts and ab rollers, to the famous 8-Minute Ab craze and unfathomable waist trainers… When it comes to fads, the world of core training has ticked off its fair few. So what does the future hold? We asked a team of ab aficionados to crunch the data and identify upcoming trends.      […]

We weren’t just born to run, we were designed to. Author and runner Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid explains the art and science of running, and why it’s as good for your mind as your body.  MARGO WHITE: You write that we’re born run. Convince me.   VYBARR CREGAN-REID: The idea that we’re born to run comes from […]