TEST Fire up your fitness

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TEST Fire up your fitness

Identify the types of exercise you genuinely click with and discover how to keep your muscles and joints in good shape so you can keep on being active.

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Benefits

More motivation to move
Better sleep, less stress and improved mood
Fewer exercise-related joint and muscle niggles

Making physical activity an everyday ‘thing’ delivers a huge (and wide) range of health perks – no surprises there. But what you might not know is that there are two things that’ll make exercising regularly easier than ever.  

The first is finding a way to move that you genuinely enjoy, because when you do that, you’ll not only get a bigger kick out of it, you’re more likely to keep doing it day after day after day.  

And the second is doing what you can to keep your body in ‘exercise-ready’ shape. Which is all the more important given that four out of five Australians say some type of pain or ‘niggle’ is limiting their ability to participate in everyday activities, including maintaining their physical fitness .   

Luckily, you’ve come to the right place – this 4-step action plan has been designed to help you do both.

Having clear direction will keep you focused.
To avoid letting your fitness level plateau, set a new goal or challenge to achieve. It could involve working towards an event like a marathon or ocean swim and achieving a personal best time.
Find your purpose: do you want to get stronger, run faster or improve your flexibility? Having a clear direction to focus on will help keep you motivated.
Get healthy eating tips, tricks and recipes to help fuel your workouts
You can’t train effectively without decent petrol in the tank. High-intensity exercise calls for good nutritional choices. Refuel and replenish depleted energy level and aid your muscle recovery by choosing mainly plant foods rich in antioxidants.
Plus, we’ve included links for easy-to-follow recipes to make healthy eating even easier.
Learn the importance of rest and recuperation, plus how to keep going when you find your motivation waning.
No-one wants to be all work and no play: it’s important to rest and recuperate when training hard.
Discover effective recovery tools such as hydrotherapy and the occasional sports massage. Go on. You deserve it (plus it may help prevent injury).
It’s easy for fitness levels to plateau, especially if you’re doing the same activities week after week. Throw in interval training – short, sharp bursts of hard-core, high-intensity exercise and watch your fitness levels soar.

Having clear direction will keep you focused.

To avoid letting your fitness level plateau, set a new goal or challenge to achieve. It could involve working towards an event like a marathon or ocean swim and achieving a personal best time.

Find your purpose: do you want to get stronger, run faster or improve your flexibility? Having a clear direction to focus on will help keep you motivated.