As apart of our New Year, Your Year 28 Days of Focus, we will be releasing a weekly workout for to you challenge yourself with. Complete this workout as many times as you can within the week, trying to beat your score each time.

1. Prepare the chicken by tossing it with the blackbean sauce, olive oil and red wine vinegar. Ensure it is covered and leave it to soak.2. Prepare your noodles according to the packets instructions.3. Heat a large non-stick frying pan on a medium heat, and add the chicken. Cook for approximately 3 minutes per side or until golden brown and cooked through.4. While the chicken is cooking, cook the broccolini for 2-3 minutes in boiling water. 5. Once the chicken is cooked, remove it from the pan and set aside. Transfer the cooked noodles and broccoli to the pan with a small amount of the broccoli water and toss both with the remaining black bean sauce. 6. Serve the noodles and broccolini to plates and top with the chicken. Serves 2.

As apart of our New Year, Your Year 28 Days of Focus, we will be releasing a weekly workout for to you challenge yourself with. Complete this workout as many times as you can within the week, trying to beat your score each time.

AMRAP 30 minutes — Complete as many rounds as possible in 30 minutes. Try and beat your score through the week.

Have you been dipping your feet into the wonderful world of yoga? If so, you are, no doubt, discovering the wonderful physical and mental benefits of this ancient practice. Maybe, you have seen people making use of yoga props to enhance their practice but you’re not sure how to use them yourself. In this article, we take a look at three of the most popular yoga props and show you how to use them.

Ingredients

1 frozen banana 1 tbsp of greek yoghurt 1 tsp of honey 1 scoop of whey protein powder 1 cup of milk

Method

Place all ingredients into the blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a glass and serve immediately. Serves 1.

There are a whole lot of different options when it comes to getting in a great cardio workout - and they can cost you quite a lot of money. Yet, one of the most effective just happens to be among the cheapest - jumping rope. 

I’m willing to bet that you don’t think very much about your lymphatic system. In fact, you may not even know what it is. Yet, this system is vital to your very life. In this article we discover what the lymphatic system is and how you can ensure that it continues to operate optimally.

It wasn’t that long ago (think back to the 80s), when there was no such thing as healthy fats. Back then all fats were demonized as the major cause of obesity and heart disease. Fortunately, we’ve wised up since then. We now recognise that there good and bad fats. In this article, we provide you with 5 ways to incorporate healthy fats into your diet.

Your core is the center of your body. It is your power base and the vital link between your upper and lower body. Keeping it strong, flexible and toned will make you a far more efficient human being. In this article, we provide you with an awesome 15 minute workout that can be done at home anytime with nothing but the body you were born with.

The 10km is the most popular competitive running distance of them all. If you’ve accepted the challenge and conquered your first 5km, then the 10km is a natural and achievable progression. Doubling your distance, however, is a real challenge that will require that you take your training to the next level. Let’s find out how to prepare for and successfully complete your first 10km.

There have been a lot of advances in our understanding of stretching around workouts in the last decade. It is now understood that the best type of stretching before the workout is dynamic stretching where you move a body part through its full range of motion, such as when doing arm circles. Static stretching is best done after the workout. Doing so will increase flexibility, reduce delayed onset muscle soreness and lessen the chance of injury. Here are seven simple post workout stretches to polish off your training session.

The Pilates Reformer is an extremely effective versatile and safe way to exercise. In this article we find out exactly what a Pilates Reformer is and why it deserves to be a part of your workout routine. 

Sleep deprivation is a chronic problem worldwide. A recent study revealed that one in three people in the United States suffer from chronic lack of sleep. And we’re paying for it with a raft of health problems from weight gain to heart disease. In this article, we focus on how your eating habits can help you to get a good night’s sleep.

If you think you need to invest in a gym membership and a lot of time to get an effective full body workout, we’ve got a body blasting equipment free routine that will convince you otherwise. This bodyweight circuit works every muscle in your body while also turbo charging your metabolism for enhanced fat burning.

Getting in your scheduled workout, week in and week out, can be a real challenge. There are times when, no matter how organized and motivated you are, life gets in the way and you simply cannot dedicate the hour plus to your training session that you normally invest. But that doesn’t mean that you have to miss out on training completely. At FIT we make it easy for you to get in an awesome workout when you happen to be time poor with our condensed time frame classes that will have you in and out of the gym in 35 minutes flat. We’ve got four types of studio classes that are designed for people in a hurry. Check them out.

Breathing is something we’ve all been doing since the moment we entered this world. So, you’d think that we’d have learned to do it right. The reality is that, while we are all able to breathe in order to preserve our lives, there are a number of ways to improve our breathing, especially when it comes to making our meditation and mindfulness practice more impactful. Let’s take a look at a half dozen breathing techniques that will help you to focus your mind and your body.

Over the last few years there have been many foods that have been touted as superfoods. Some of them have a dubious claim to that title but one on which there is no doubt is turmeric. In fact, many people believe that it is the most beneficial nutritional supplement that exists. Let’s dig into the benefits of adding turmeric to your diet.

When you’re thinking about what workout to do for the day, how often do you think about focusing on the muscles in your back? Perhaps your workout goes a little something like, biceps, triceps, abs, glutes, quads and if we take a second to think about it, all of these parts of the body connect to our back. Back exercises can improve your posture, enhance your physique and help protect your back from pain and injury and I’m pretty sure we have all experienced back pain to some degree or another, whether it’s been upper pain, lower pain, chronic or mild it’s not a fun thing to have and can last a very long time. So why not put these exercises to the forefront of your mind and make it a back day!

Your legs are the two lower limbs of your body that connect from the hips and includes your glutes, thighs, knees, shins, ankles and feet. They cover at least 50% of our overall body mass, hold our body up right and provide support and a range of movements.From a scientific point of view, it has been proven that making your legs work with heavy loads enhance the production of growth hormone and testosterone in the body.

Group classes can seem a bit daunting, you probably feel that they're full of people already knowing what they’re doing. There’s no beginners or advanced groups to most of these classes, but with easy routines to follow anyone can simply join.