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How can your diet impact your mental health?
Fact: Our brains are highly sensitive to what we eat. Not only does our diet influence our brain function, but it can also even change the structure of our brains. Deakin University recently did a study on how diets can associate with mental health. The study shows...
Winter Personal Challenge
Have you done a challenge where you are given a program, a fad diet, no support, and a lack of a supportive community? Well, join our upcoming Vida Fitness 6-week challenge and experience the difference. The first thing we want to make clear, the 6-week challenges are...
What are the Benefits of Staying Hydrated
Water is the most important and vital thing we put in our body’s to fuel us and to keep us alive. It also replenishes and regulates our body in response to any form of stress such as heat, cold and injury. That means staying hydrated throughout the course of the day...
How do I get over a Fitness Plateau?
Are you finding that you are struggling to see improvements in your fitness journey for some time? Are you doing the same exercises, repetitions and resistance for long periods of time with little or no change in your overall fitness? You may be experiencing a...
What are the benefits of a rower in your training?
Using a rowing machine such as the Concept2 rowers that Vida Fitness now provide in the gym can help your training in so many ways. Using these machines not only provide great benefits for those looking to gain strength, speed, power and endurance but it is also great...
What Are The Benefits Of Sleep On My Health?
Sleep has many health benefits that we all know about, its essential for good health and growth as it allows the body to recover and restore its mental and physical health. Lack of sleep has been shown to cause fatigue, decreased concentration, memory and judgement....
Creating Healthy Habits
How many times have you started a new diet or exercise regime only to experience setbacks almost instantly? Maybe you’ve told yourself that this year will be different. Here are a few tips to stay on track with that lifestyle change of healthy habits. Be...
What is Functional Training
What is Functional Training? Functional Training is a type of exercise training that focuses on specific movements that have a function in human life. It prioritises movement patterns that are apart of everyday life that individuals require to function in today's...
What does exercise do to your brain?
We all know exercising is good for the body. But did you know you might also get a brain boost when you don your sneakers and hit the gym? The benefits of physical exercise, especially aerobic exercise, have positive effects on brain function on multiple fronts,...
Exercise as medicine
The benefits of exercise are not limited to physical changes of the body, but has greater scope for overall wellbeing including improving ones mental state. Many studies over the past 10 years have looked into the effect exercise has on a persons mental wellbeing,...