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This month’s Funny Fitness Story would have to go out to our very own Fitstyler Anthony McMahon! While Fitstyler Michael Bellofiore fled to the Gold Coast for a relaxing weekend, Anthony filled in for his Moonee Ponds session on Saturday 23rd of July.

It was a beautiful morning to be training and while everyone was in the single-mindedness of performing extreme leg workouts, out of nowhere, some form of yabby/prawn or whatever large species it could’ve possibly been fell out of the sky and missed a Fitmate, who was fully focused to training, by 30cms!

Everyone stopped and focused on this creature thinking, “Has it fallen from the sky or did a bird drop it?”

Fitstyler Anthony came to the conclusion that it just might’ve been raining yabbies or maybe the yabby had self-attended the session for a good workout with Fitstyler!

You hear about storys about anything falling out of the sky but a yabbie, very strange.

Written by Andrew Talati

Towards the end of our North Fitzroy Boot camp, a Fitmate Paul C decided to tie his dog “Tim” to the pole in front of Edinburgh Gardens.

After a good stretch and a quick chat with the group, Paul was the first person in the group to say bye and took off in his car.
Michael our Fitstyler didn’t notice anything untill after he had given out all the equipment to the next boot camp group commencing at 7am that Michael the 7amer Fitmate kneeling down and talking to herself, Michael asked “Kirsty what are you doing?”
Then Michael had noticed Tim still tied to the pole, Paul had left without him.

So Michael brought Tim along to the next session hoping that Paul would remember that he had forgotten about Tim.
Well in the end, Michael ended up having to hold this dog while taking the 7am session, Paul then came back half a hour later and said he didn’t even notice he had left Tim, his wife asked him once he got out of the shower,
“Where is the Dog”

Very funny fitness quote in relation to inactivity and the difficulties faced with performing everyday tasks.

A new fitmate, Clair C, who at the sprightly age of 24, found it difficult to carry the groceries home due to her lack of strength in her shoulders. While it may seem comical that she said I’II have to “lift more weights or starve” as she would be limited in the amount of food that she could carry, there is a more serious side to muscle atrophy (muscle loss).

While there is a saying “use it or lose it“, there have been numerous studies that support endurance resistance training earlier on in life determines how your body will hold up later in life.

The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University that found that a the long-term benefits of regular endurance exercise found they had increased muscle stem cells which in turn help maintains muscles.

Prof. Dafna Benayahu found that the density of stem cells per muscle fibres increased sinificantly for a group of rats that were placed on a tread mill for 20 minutes per day.

Towards the end of the experiment, the older rats had a massive 33% to 47% increase in stem cell density in their muscle fibres versus the younger rats of 20% to 35%. increase.

This was the first time that research supported by people who exercise regularly throughout their life aged more gracefully versus those who lead a sedentary lifestyle.

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:))

Well at Fitstyler we are always looking to improve our services, and so we are pleased to announce our new five star boot camp, it’s a bit fancy.

When you sign up to any of our boot camps you will receive a complimentary dry cleaning and ironing service together with a specially decked out recreational vehicle to use as a changing room.
And what training would be complete without lighting, not just any old flood lights but 10,000 watts of pure power, enough to remove any dampness from the grass.

So if you’re looking to take your boot camp training to a higher level, try our new five star service:))

Actually these were the film crew vehicles parked at Flagstaff Gardens for Robert Di Nero’s new Aussie film, “The Killer Elite” being filmed in Collins St, Melbourne. No sign of Di Nero though, just some dude sitting on his own beside a 4WD, not quite the same as being in one of the massive motor homes parked there!