Road tests for products, services and workouts to help you with your health and fitness journey.
𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬? I’ve been taking myself through my own 8-Week Find Your Balance programme which aims for sustainable results across nutrition, fitness and wellbeing and today measured my halfway point results for the end of the fourth …
Find Your Balance challenge update – Week 4 – Half way there! Read More »
GoPro cameras are known for their versatility, ruggedness and ability to take footage pretty much anywhere – from surfing to rockclimbing, car racing to snowboarding. Anything exciting you can think to record videos of; a GoPro is your best bet. When GoPro sent me a HERO5 Session camera for road testing, I was ridiculously excited …
Having recently done a comprehensive review of the new Fitbit Alta HR, I’m pretty well versed on what Fitbits are all about and how useful they are when it comes to increasing awareness of our daily health and wellness habits. Fitbit provided me with their Fitbit Blaze to put it through its paces for a …
As I work in the fitness industry, I’d have to be living under a rock to have not heard of Fitbits. Many of my clients and peers have been using them for a while now, and I’d been toying with the idea of buying one myself. I loved the slim profile of the Alta model; …
I love trying out new kinds of exercise and recently had the opportunity to road test The Trip; the hottest new Immersive Fitness class at Les Mills Newmarket, Auckland. The name Les Mills is synonymous with group fitness, and now they’re taking their exercise classes into the future with their new ‘Immersive Fitness’ studios which …
Road Test: ‘The Trip’ Les Mills Immersive Fitness class Read More »
Carbonated drinks found on supermarket shelves have received a bad rap over the years for being unhealthy and laden with processed sugars. However, SodaStream gives you the ability to take control over what goes in to your fizzy drinks as you make them yourself from scratch at home. Of the four SodaStream models on the …
Lying on a bed of nails may not seem like a particularly relaxing past-time, but this ancient healing tool has now been reinvented for modern day use; a less daunting version claiming the same health benefits. We had the opportunity to road test the Shakti Original – an acupressure mat that contains over 6,000 points …
Road Test: Shakti Mat – The modern Indian bed of nails Read More »
We love trying out new kinds of exercise and our editor, Ange, recently had the opportunity to road test a Barrefigure class as part of a group lesson with Marysa Dalton, New Zealand School of Dance graduate, former dancer for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and founder of the new Barrefigure studio in Ponsonby, Auckland. …
Good quality sports bras are an important part of your fitness ‘uniform’ but they can be a difficult piece of workout gear to get exactly right. Did you know that around 7 out of 10 women are wearing the wrong size sports bra? This means there’s a good chance that you’re one of them… Under …
We love trying out new kinds of exercise and our editor, Ange, recently had the opportunity to road test an Xtend Barre class as part of a group lesson from Katie Swift who hails from Liverpool, has worked extensively as a professional dancer, and now instructs for the gorgeous new Studio 3 studio in Newmarket, …
We love trying out new kinds of exercise and our editor, Ange, had the opportunity to road test Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) thanks to a group lesson from Eddie Wood who instructs for The NZ Boardstore in Auckland. Stand Up Paddleboarding is one of the fastest growing sports in the world – and it’s easy …
Most of us will have given a racket sport a go at some point in our lives. Although some of us are naturally gifted with the coordination required to wield a racket and hit a small moving object with it, the rest of us can at least be encouraged by the fact that it’s a …