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Fitness and exercise
Cycling tips for beginners
Whether you're cycling to work, for exercise, or just for fun, the humble bicycle is an easy way to get more active. Here’s how to get started.
Healthy and active children
Physical activity, healthy eating and a proper rest are key aspects of children’s health. This page provides information and links to resources.
Health benefits of swimming
Swimming is a great low-impact activity you can do at any age. These tips will help you get started.
How to start exercising
You don’t have to exercise to the point of collapse to get health benefits. This article shows you how simple it can be to get active.
Physical activity guidelines for older adults
If you are over 65, you should try to be active every day. Here's how much physical activity you actually need, plus tips on how to stay fit.
Running tips for beginners
Running can be a fun way to exercise. It can help keep you in shape and lose weight too. This article shows you how.
Yoga for beginners
Considering yoga? Here are many of the answers to common yoga questions, including how it can benefit your health and how to find a class.
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Farmer fitness | National Centre for Farmer Health
Farming is still a physically demanding way of life, but it is not as active as it was in the past. Read more...
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Walking for good health - Better Health Channel
Walking will improve your fitness and reduce your risk of heart disease.
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Running and jogging - health benefits - Better Health Channel
Running helps build strong bones, strengthens muscles and helps maintain a healthy weight.
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Preschoolers nutrition & fitness | Raising Children Network
Want to know about keeping preschoolers active and eating healthy food? Check out our extensive resources on physical activity and healthy eating for kids.
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Physical activity and exercise for children
Here is trusted advice about how much daily exercise your child needs for good health and fitness and how you can encourage your child to be more active.
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Keeping active
Regular physical activity is a good way to help prevent or manage mild anxiety and depression, help you stay physically fit and mentally healthy.
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Physical activity and exercise — Arthritis Australia
Physical activity and exercise is extremely important for managing an arthritis condition
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Sports & Fitness Professionals
Both males and females engaged in competitive physical activities, including sports, fitness and dance, have increased rates of body dissatisfaction, disordered eating and eating disorders
Read more on NEDC - National Eating Disorders Collaboration website
Physical activity for seniors - Better Health Channel
Physical activity can help older people maintain independence, recover from illness and reduce their risk of disease.
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Physical activity and exercise: getting started - myDr.com.au
Most people don't undertake enough physical activity in their everyday working lives and leisure time, which means we have to make a conscious effort to be more active.
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Fact Sheet on the Benefits of Exercise – Update Your Knowledge
Exercise stimulates neurochemicals that elevate your mood, memory and learning (Mindhealthconnect 2016). Some mood-improving chemicals are serotonin and endorphins; but mood may also improve due to the environmental and social experience of physical activity (Mindhealthconnect, 2016).
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Face-to-face versus remote and web 2.0 interventions for promoting physical activity | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: There is insufficient evidence to assess whether face-to-face interventions or remote and web 2
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Four Bedside Tests and Measures to Determine Walking Safety
Bernard falls falls a lot. But, this last fall was different. Bernard is now slouching on the edge of a hospital bed, cloaked in the quintessential hospital gown, staring down at his fuzzy one-size-fits-all, anti-skid socks. Enter the physio, stage left. A formal assessment is in order.
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Ways to Progress Any Rehabilitation Exercise
I will never forget my first geriatric clinical affiliation as a physio student. I was training at a skilled nursing facility and there was one therapist working the entire department. She would arrive in the morning, sit down on a rolling stool and (being a tad hyperbolic, here) never rise again.
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Exercise-Induced Neuroplasticity – Creating New Neural Pathways
It was thought that the adult brain was ‘fixed’ and incapable of producing new neural pathways. The brain doesn’t need new growth in order to stimulate better cognition; the brain is incredibly underutilised. In other words, we don’t operate at anything close to max capacity.
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Osteoporosis - Australasian Menopause Society
Osteoporosis is a condition characterised by weakened bones that fracture easily. After menopause many women are at risk of developing osteoporosis.Peak bone mass is usually reached during a womans 20s to 30s when the skeleton has stopped growing and bones are at their strongest.The female sex hormone oestrogen plays an important role in maintaining bone strength. After menopause oestrogen levels drop and this may result in increased bone loss. The average woman loses up to 10 per cent of
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How Can we Prevent the Risk of Dementia?
Probably my favourite TED Talk is that by Lisa Genova, ‘What can you do to prevent Alzheimer’s?’ (Watch below) (2017) In the talk, Genova states that we can reduce our risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease by implementing lifestyle changes.
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Cancer Rehabilitation in a Multidisciplinary Team
Cancer is a disease that doesn’t discriminate based on age, sex or person. There have been many advances in the treatment and detection of different types of cancers. This means that cancer survival rates have improved and people are being diagnosed with their cancer earlier.
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