One of the most overlooked parts of improving health and fitness is how we eat our food. We place a huge focus on the type of foods and when to eat but pay little attention to how important the process of chewing our food is to providing the numerous benefits to our health. When you eat slowly, you digestion improves and your body can easily extract the essential vitamins and minerals from the food to allow it to function at its optimal capacity. You feel more satisfied with each meal allowing for better energy throughout the day and this also prevents over-eating helping you to maintain a healthy weight. However, if you eat too quickly your digestion suffers in a big way and this can cause havoc to not just your waistline, but can cause headaches, joint pain, skin problems, and even disease! Meals end up becoming stressful to your body as opposed to being a time for it to refuel and recharge. Add on top of this is how you feel sluggish and bloated and unable to stop over-eating and sabotaging your exercise efforts. Your food choices might be perfect but the fact you are eating too fast is your problem. For many people this becomes a bad habit and they do not even know they are doing it. In this article we are going to explain exactly what happens when you eat too quickly and some simple strategies you can use to prevent this bad habit from ruining your health goals.

Most jobs do not require a fitness test to be eligible for employment but for people entering into the occupations of emergency services such as police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and even army recruits, the need for fitness testing is vital. In order to effectively assist the public in the dynamic situations they are called to engage in, that are often physically awkward and demanding and pose injury risk to their own body, fitness training is critical. To be accepted into any of these organisations all over the world all applicants must go through a selection process that compares your current level of fitness versus a baseline number determined to be acceptable by the organisations testing protocol. The fitness testing for each of the organisations vary slightly, with some specific tasks relevant to certain occupations. To be a successful applicant you MUST pass the minimum result across the various tests specified by the organisation meaning this will require training on your own before applying to complete the test. This is where we see people make some big mistakes that could potentially derail their career before it has even begun! In this article we will explain what these are so you can avoid falling into the trap.

Without doubt some of the fittest people on the planet are people participating in combat sports like wrestling, boxing, Jiu jets, martial arts, and of course Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Unlike other sports where fitness is a very similar standard, athletes in these sports are also some of the strongest and most powerful. Trying to combine incredible strength with fitness is extremely difficult to do, and if you add the complexity of skills required for each sport you have a great appreciation of how committed and disciplined these athletes really are. Oh yeah, did I mention the fact that there is a good chance you can get hurt in competition from an opponent trying to take you out! We know that strength training is essential for these sports but how much is enough? The biggest mistakes we see are where people forget that the strength workout is meant to complement the sports training, not take its place. In this article we drill down deep into the specific demands of these various sports and examine what are the best exercises and methods with strength training to enhance your sporting performance. Make sure you check out the video at the bottom of the page with a gruelling circuit workout.