RighT path Fitness Blog

Do you need more energy? Do you find yourself relying too much on energy drinks and coffee to stay awake throughout the day?

Stress relief, that’s all meditation in darkened rooms, isn’t it? Actually, there’s a lot more than you can do to relieve the everyday stresses that we all experience. Stress is a fact of life, so learning techniques to better manage it can have numerous benefits for your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.

Winter is the time of year when coughs, colds and flu viruses run riot. Once the temperature drops, they are out in force. What you eat can have a significant impact on your immune system and in turn your susceptibility – or not, to such bugs. It can also change the level from which you suffer and the time in which you recover. Here are five of the best winter health foods – some of which might surprise you.

It’s Halloween, time for pumpkins carved into ghoulish designs with flames flickering within, dark nights filled with witches, vampires and monsters trick or treating through the streets and freakish movies keeping us up too late. But the truth is, what’s going in inside your own body could be scarier than anything Halloween has to throw at you. Here are 4 scary health facts that you need to hear.

Cholesterol, that’s just something older people have to worry about, right? Actually, no, research from the University of California found if you have elevated cholesterol in your 20s and 30s, it can accumulate over time, causing problems later in life. Cholesterol is called the ‘silent killer’ as it often doesn’t have any symptoms, but left unchecked it can cause heart disease and stroke. This National Cholesterol Month we look at the 5 truths of cholesterol for 20 somethings!

Us Brits love our holidays, over 14 million of us went abroad at the start of 2017 and 7 in 10 of us will take a staycation in the UK. But the biggest change is in the type of holidays we’re taking with wellness breaks that incorporate health and fitness seeing a huge increase. The great thing about this type of holiday is that it can complement your regular training program and you return from your break revitalized, refreshed, and ready for anything. Here are 5 health and fitness breaks you could be taking this autumn/winter.

If your idea of getting ready for a workout is to pull an old t-shirt from the back of the wardrobe, paired with some shorts that are probably older than Justin Bieber then you could be missing out! The new wave of fitness gear not only looks good and can give you a boost in the confidence stakes but can help your workout too. We look at some of the best technology in fitness gear available right now.

There are several weight assessment tools used today by health professionals. Weight alone is not an accurate measurement of health status, but it is an important part of an overall assessment. Today I want to discuss the “Why” behind BMI and other weight assessment tools that are often used in the health community.

Ah, autumn, time to crank up the heating and hunker down until summer comes along again, right? Actually, whilst the days might be getting shorter and the weather decidedly chilly, you can still feel fantastic this autumn with our 5 tips to kick start your season.

If you are an HR Manager or someone responsible for overseeing the welfare of employees within your company, then here at Right Path Fitness we recognize that implementing a corporate wellness program within your company can have huge benefits to both you, and all of your employees involved in the program.

Here at Right Path Fitness we’re all about focusing on the latest trends across a wide range of areas, and health and fitness is no exception; there’s always new and innovative fitness training methods and disciplines coming into play all the time.

Groundhog Day, the same thing day in and day out gets wearing after a while and you can begin to lose motivation. The same is true with fitness, if you repeat the same routine with the same equipment every time you train you’ll quickly get bored. And with the multitude of quality fitness equipment out there, it doesn’t take much to pep up your training programme and put the spring back into your step!

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Summer is here, and hopefully, that means the temperatures are set to soar.

Chances are you might well be heading off on your summer holiday soon which is likely to involve lots of time spent on the beach, which can mean only one thing – you need to make the effort now to get in the best possible shape so that you are comfortable showing off your beach body to the world!

Here at Right Path Fitness we are strong advocates of anything that helps to build a stronger, fitter, healthier, and more confident you – so we don’t limit ourselves in any way to just focusing on certain styles of forms of training that might not necessarily benefit all our clients to the maximum.

Not everyone loves the buzz of a gym, and for some people finding the time to get to the gym is almost an impossible task.

Pilates exercises are designed to strengthen the body through core strength, body alignment, and stretching – it’s a fantastic form of exercise that’s highly beneficial to anyone no matter what your fitness level, age of personal training, and health goals.

High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) has gained in popularity in recent years and is now firmly established as one of the most widespread forms of training used in a range of fitness programs.