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For most of my 20's and 30's, I was doing it backwards. I was training hard — weights, boxing, everything I love — and eating carefully. I thought "carefully" meant disciplined. I thought keeping my portions tight and staying lean was the smart play. I was focused on making weight for my competition, not on what my body needed to do the things I was asking it to do. What I actually was, was chronically under-fuelled. And it was costing me. My recovery was slow. My attention s

Estimated read time: 6 minutes Mark runs four days a week. He has done for years. He tracks his kilometres, watches his heart rate, and eats reasonably well. By most measures, he is an active 42-year-old. But his weight has not shifted in three years and in fact, he’s developing love handles and losing his bicep definition, and is noticing his energy crashes by mid-afternoon. Last month he pulled something in his lower back getting out of a car. Sarah is 38 and returning to s

Sarcopenia isn't just a fitness issue. It is a metabolic and hormonal one. When we lose muscle, your insulin sensitivity declines too - meaning your body becomes less efficient at managing blood sugar. Your resting metabolic rate drops. Your risk of developing diabetes Type II increases. Inflammation increases. And your risk of falls, fractures, and metabolic disease rises significantly. For women navigating perimenopause, this is compounded further. Declining oestrogen accel

Even as a kid I was the one who would enter the athletics days, the swimming comps, the cross country runs. I wanted to win everything! Every sport that was on offer - netball, rugby, swimming, baseball, softball, cricket. My number all favourite thing to do though was rollerblading. That was something I couldn’t ‘win’ so to speak, and I loved every minute of being on my skates. In the 1990’s I went on to compete in kickboxing and then later in the 2000's became serious abou

Absenteeism and presenteeism. Your staff’s health impacts your business productivity and profitability.