Melbourne Boot Camp

While we were boxing, a Fitmate “Tina K” made a funny fitness comment while she was focus padding, she was day dreaming about chocolate.

On average our Fitmates burn between 450-750 calories so based on a 55 gram block of branded chocolate (mmmm, have they reduced the size from 60 grams???) containing 292 calories, this means that for our Fitmate, she will need to work hard for 45 minutes to burn off the chocolate bar.

Chocolate seems to be very popular theme with a Fitmate late year saying that after burning 800 calories during our bootcamp session, that he can now eat a mars bar.
Mmmm, sounds good in theory but why waste all of that hard work by putting back all those calories into the body plus the trans fats as well.

Well if you’re looking for chocolate you cannot beat Belgium, or even better still in Bruges where they have the most amazing selection. So how many squats and burpees will need to be performed if you went crazy in this shop?

Today I had an enquiry from a 25 year old who was very concerned after her grandfather broke his pelvis, it gave her the motivation to start a fitness program.
After the usual gym membership with group fitness classes and a decline in motivation, she found that 12 months had elapsed.

However the vulnerability of her grandfather to breaking bones was enough to make a positive step to her health and well being future.

While there is a lot of literature on drinking calcium to avoid osteoporosis, there is nothing quite like regular exercise training to maintain bone density.

While in Italy I saw a group of men in their 80′s going on a morning walk around the lake in the beautiful Dolomites. By exercising regularly they are not only keeping healthy but reducing there risk of osteoporosis.

While we may not have such amazing surroundings within walking distance of our house, just finding 30 minutes a day will keep you healthy and fit into your golden years.

Very funny and an usual core exercise, motorbike riding with a four burner bbq. (barbeque).

While this is a silly thing to do, it does show amazing core strength to hold perfect alignment with all of the deep core muscles such as the transversus abdominus, multifidus, internal and external obliques.

If he was to slouch forward, he would start placing a lot of strain on his lower back. The shoulders have to be braced extremely well between the internal and external rotators while maintaining perfect postural alignment. keeping a neutral spin also enables him to keep the hips stabilised enough to extend his hips far enough to reach the foot pedals.

So don’t be tempted to pick up some outdoor furniture or other stuff from the road side council hard rubbish collection, keep your core works to the safe environment of your own home:))

Every now and then we have stuff that purports to enhance athletic performance, there is the skins body suit garments for example, now we have “Power balance” that people swear makes a difference to their performance. A very impressive list of athletes can’t rave enough about it.

Is it a case where the wearer truly believes it makes a difference so the psychological change in the brain creates the belief and there is an improvement. So is it more like a lucky charm, similar to athletes who wear a religious cross around there neck and upon winning a race, ie cycling, they kiss the lucky charm.

Sports people have for years had similar rituals that give them the confidence to succeed. Think about tennis/football players who must bounce the ball “x” numbers of times before making a crucial serve, or the cricketers who rubs the ball against there groin to the point they will wear a hole in their trousers.

There is a famous experiment from Jane Elliot in 1968 who used and an experiment in demonstrating prejudice to highlight the psychological effects of feeling superior and all the bad stuff associated with that situation as well. Children in a classroom were divided based on there eye colour whereby blue eyed children were treated as being more intelligent and the brown eyed children lacked intelligence.

The blue eyed group experienced better grades with their understanding of reading and mathematical tasks being greater than what they had previously achieved. Conversely there was a negative relationship with the brown eyed children who experienced a decrease in there grades.
Ultimately it came down to the psychological benefit, the belief system that having blue eyes made them smarter and more superior, sound familiar?

The test that is often sited to test the benefits of the Power Balance is to hold your arm out at 90º to your body and for someone to push down on it, then you repeat the experiment after placing the bracelet on and miraculously it’s harder to push the arm down.

Well try this experiment in reverse and you will get the same outcome, I would like to see the scientific evidence that there is a measurable improvement in a controlled environment with at least 500 people to get a true sample size, not testimonials from athletes.
All I have to say is “SHOW US THE EVIDENCE”?

The weight loss industry is another example of where being unregulated unsubstantiated claims can be made, often if there are clinical trials, it is based on there on testing guidelines with an extremely small sample group.

Well for a limited time we are offering the “Fitstyler” hologram technology, just $99 plus we will throw in some steak knives:))

Well after the massive hail storm last night in Melbourne who would have believed we would have this amazing morning at Boot camp.

Melbourne is definitely living up to it’s reputation of four seasons in one day or rather four extreme seasons in one day.