The path to weight loss, better health and wellbeing starts with understanding your greatest gift…
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When we take the first tentative steps on our health and wellness journey, we have certain expectations. We can grasp the importance of regular exercise and sound nutrition, and we recognise that to make progress, we’ll need to make changes in these areas. Many of us are surprised to learn that we are neglecting an – equally important – tenet of health, sleep!
Given that we’ll spend over thirty percent of our lives asleep, we pay little attention to what happens when our eyes close for the night. Find out more about how sleep affects your health, how to assess your own sleep, and how to improve your sleep in our blog three-part Sleep blog.
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When we take the first tentative steps on our health and wellness journey, we have certain expectations. We can grasp the importance of regular exercise and sound nutrition, and we recognise that to make progress, we’ll need to make changes in these areas. Many of us are surprised to learn that we are neglecting an – equally important – tenet of health, sleep!
Given that we’ll spend over thirty percent of our lives asleep, we pay little attention to what happens when our eyes close for the night. Find out more about how sleep affects your health, how to assess your own sleep, and how to improve your sleep in our blog three-part Sleep blog.
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When we take the first tentative steps on our health and wellness journey, we have certain expectations. We can grasp the importance of regular exercise and sound nutrition, and we recognise that to make progress, we’ll need to make changes in these areas. Many of us are surprised to learn that we are neglecting an – equally important – tenet of health, sleep!
Given that we’ll spend over thirty percent of our lives asleep, we pay little attention to what happens when our eyes close for the night. Find out more about how sleep affects your health, how to assess your own sleep, and how to improve your sleep in our blog three-part Sleep blog.
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Life is busy.
How can we juggle our career, family, finances, hobbies, and social life, while still finding time to invest in our own health and wellness?
If it sounds impossible, that’s because it is. Try as we might, we can’t have it all. Refusing to accept this leads us to feel under pressure, like we don’t have enough hours in the day. We rush from one task to the next, spending little time or energy on the things we really care about. Over time we become stressed and can feel unfulfilled.
What if we could eliminate the distractions? What if we could focus only on the essential components of our lives? What if we chose to do less – but better? Read on to find out how…
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In November 2022, the Scottish Health Survey (2021) published findings that 67% of adults living in Scotland are overweight (2/3 of the adult population), and 30% are obese (almost 1/3 of the adult population). As nutrition is an important contributor to achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight, it is deeply concerning that the dieting world is loaded with confusing and contradicting information. With so many diets widely promoted, it is difficult to know which is best.
Is there a best diet for weight loss? What about health and wellbeing? Find out more in our blog, ‘The best diet for health and wellbeing.’
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Do you find it difficult to make a change and stick to it?
Often, even the smallest of lifestyle / habit changes require far more time and adjustment than we anticipate or plan for. The result is that this new change requires a lot of effort, which is ok in the short term but unsustainable over a longer period – leaving us right back where we started.
Here are three great practices you can apply when trying to make a lifestyle / habit change that will help you to sustain the change longer term…
Read MoreFor many years we have consumed animal milk; predominantly cows’ milk, however in recent years we have seen a rise in the number of consumers choosing a plant based / non-animal / dairy-free milk alternatives. So how do these alternatives compare to animal milk?
In this blog we will look at both sides of the coin; by listing the benefits of animal milk, reviewing the alternatives, and finding out why consumers make the choice to switch from conventional animal milk to a dairy-free alternative.
Read MoreDue to the vast array of food and drink that we can freely purchase and consume in our daily environment, many people find healthy eating a challenge. This has led to an obesity crisis in the UK and throughout the World; in fact 2.8 million people are estimated to die annually as a result of obesity (WHO Obesity Fact Sheet). The introduction of nutritional labelling is one example of an intervention which uses text and colours to convey specific information about products and their nutritional information.
Read MoreLow back pain (LBP) is something which the majority of us will all experience at some point in our life time. You can be certain it will interrupt your job, family life and exercise. However, what you also need to know is that when this does happen, in the vast majority of cases it is nothing serious or life threatening and it will resolve with time and proper management. LBP is a symptom, not a disease, that can occur due to a number of complex interactions between several different factors.
Read MoreThe question above would be answered in many different ways if you were to ask different coaches, professionals, and participants view points on it. With some coaches and professionals saying that everyone should expect and tolerate some level of pain during their fitness journey, with others saying that pain present during exercise should be avoided completely. On the other side you’ll have some participants in fitness training wearing their ability to train and push through pain as a badge of honor, and others who would shy away and think twice about doing something if it hurt. However, it opens up an area for discussion as to whether or not pain has a place within the fitness journey of individuals when the overarching goal is to lead a long, healthy and happy life through the medium of fitness training.
Read MoreIn the first part of this series on Lockdown running pain we covered some of the anatomy and common locations of pain within the lower limb. What we will go onto cover now are some of the contributing factors which may contribute towards the development of lower leg pain whilst running. We also spoke about the names of some common running pains such as overload issues, Achilles Tendon Pain, and Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome aka “Shin Splints”.
Read MoreWith the increase in running during lockdown I thought it would be useful to dig deeper into some potential problem areas and contributing factors. The first part of this blog will make you aware of some of the anatomy and commons locations of pain. This may allow you to pinpoint a particular problem area for you. The second part will look into the different contributing factors and some potential management strategies.
Read MoreHumans love routine. Since the dawn of time we have risen with the sun and slept when it went down. However, nowadays more jobs require people to work shifts and out with our circadian rhythm. Circadian rhythm is our 24-hour internal clock that cycles between sleepiness and alertness at regular intervals.
Read MoreExercise causes physical stress in the body. Other stressors include emotional, financial, family, relationships… not to mention our current situation which is proving to be a significant stressor for most of us. Our bodies can’t differentiate between these stressors and chronic high levels of stress could impair your recovery from training. This could mean subsequent training sessions are less effective.
Read MoreHOW THE SIX DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS CAN HELP YOUR NUTRITION DURING LOCKDOWN.
Read MoreIn light of the Coronavirus, working from home has become the new “normal”. You’ve likely went from a set up with at least a desk and a chair, or you have scrambled to put together a home office. There will also be some of you just working from the sofa I’m sure. I’m also sure most of you haven’t thought about posture, until maybe you’ve started to get a new pain in your neck or lower back whilst working. I hope to shed some light on posture, give you an insight into its function and if there is an optimal posture. I will also give you some tips for setting up at home and also some movements to try when the aches do set in!
Read MoreWe are excited to finally announce the new name of our business; Aristos Fitness!
In ancient Greek, aristos means “best” and shares its roots with arete, which in its most basic sense, means “excellence of any kind”. We feel that this new name perfectly embodies our core values; to fulfill potential; to become our best selves.
Read MoreAs a rule, most of us don’t enjoy owning up to our shortcomings. When the going gets tough, it’s far easier to blame an external factor rather than identify ourselves as the root of the issue. In time, this lack of self-awareness can cause a crippling disparity between perceived effort and expectation.
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