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Weight Loss Management

Eating right is a lifestyle choice which results in a balance of optimum health and weight. In a time where fad diets are all the rage, it is important to understand the implications and consequences of not eating right. We each have different body types, biochemical makeup and genetic predispositions, so quite literally, ‘one man’s meat can be another man’s poison’. Complete elimination of whole food groups from our diet plans may produce short term gains but can be potentially quite harmful to our health in the long term. Our approach is a combination of various elements including the glycaemic response to consumption, (glycaemic index(GI) and glycaemic load(GL)), increasing basal metabolic rate and the thermal effects of food and exercise. We aim to create a safe energy deficit without continuous increases in levels of key regulators such as insulin and sudden reduction in levels of leptin. What you eat, when you eat and how much you eat are all key success factors to achieving optimum health and weight.

Nutritional Advice

Understanding your diet is essential to your overall wellbeing. Eating the right foods in the right amounts at the right times produces optimum nutritional health and keeps you more in tune with what agrees with your body and – most importantly – what does not. We make provision for food intolerance testing. This is crucial to maintaining optimum nutritional health, as food allergies can result in the increase of toxins in our system which can cause serious health conditions and exacerbate pre-existing symptoms. Eating the right foods not only facilitates weight loss and the maintenance of optimum weight, but can improve overall health, increase energy levels, alertness, effective brain and body function, improve skin and hair, ease pre-menstrual tension, and generally gives that feel-good factor. Based on a food diary and detailed questionnaire that is designed to understand your eating and drinking patterns and habits, we will offer advice and recommendations that will encourage alternative and healthier eating plans.

Sports Specific Training

Control of movement, explosive acceleration, lightning responses and reaction, reduced incidence of injury … all these are aspects of the sporting experience. Whatever your shape or size, whether you are young or old, professional or amateur, we can help improve your movement ability and enjoy tremendous performance improvements. Our system of progressive exercise and instruction is aimed at developing fundamental motor abilities, balance, co-ordination and ultimate complete control of body movement, plus much more.

Sports Nutrition

Your daily eating habits have a big effect on performance. What you eat as a professional athlete can be critical. Whilst the right choices can give you that competitive edge, the wrong choices can have a detrimental effect on your performance. Supplying your body with sufficient amounts of energy and fluids for sport is crucial. It is significantly important that you eat the right kind of food several days before an event to charge up your muscles with glycogen – a key energy source your muscles use during most sports activities. We offer nutritional advice on daily consumption and suggested meal plans, essential foods and foods to avoid, and recommended supplements to take. We also provide guidelines for eating before events and during all-day events

Pre & Post Natal Training

In the past, there have been various concerns regarding any form of exercise during pregnancy and a sedentary lifestyle was encouraged. Pregnancy is now more recognised as a unique time for behaviour modification and there is no doubt that exercise is good for both mother and baby subject to medical consent and the absence of any contraindications. We can help expectant and new mothers maintain their baseline fitness which can help boost energy levels, relieve backaches and improve posture by strengthening the postural chain muscles, reduce constipation, improve sleep, look and feel better, prepare your body for birth and not least regain your shape quickly afterwards.

Fifty Plus Fitness

Regular physical activity is important for health. Many of the physical, psychological and social hazards linked to aging can be slowed down, avoided or in many cases reversed by engaging in regular physical activity. We offer a variety of functional, enjoyable and achievable exercise programmes that will boost your energy levels and encourage active social integration, improve functionality in daily living, enhance emotional and mental well-being and promote high levels of self confidence.

Special Considerations

More and more people suffer from various ailments such hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes or asthma, all of which can be caused by the pressures of life, our environment, what we eat, congenital predisposition, the aging process and quite commonly, physical inactivity. Exercise is increasingly being promoted as an effective part of treatment, as correct application of exercise can in many cases help slow down, reverse and avoid future reoccurrence of symptoms. With medical consent we can help you achieve your fitness objectives safely and effectively.