by Holly | 20th November 2018 | Fitness & Exercise, iNform blog, Medical Exercise Support | 0 Comments

Have you heard about how exercise and ADT should go together like sausages and bread? Research has shown exercise can help to reduce side effects of this treatment (without influencing the effectiveness of the drug). Prostate cancer, unfortunately, needs male hormones...

by scottwood | 15th November 2018 | Injury Prevention & Recovery, Sport & Recreation | 0 Comments

Recently the Journal of Sports Sciences published a Systematic Review detailing the factors associated with injury in Elite Junior Tennis players. It is important that coaches and parents of such athletes are aware of the findings (Oosterhoof et al, 2018). Risk...

by Hunter Bennett | 30th October 2018 | Nutrition & Weight Loss | 0 Comments

What is intermittent fasting? Each and every week there seems to be a shiny new health and fitness trend. You know what I’m talking about? That brand new exercise, amazing new way of eating, or incredible new superfood? Yep, the one that is going to boost health and...

by scottwood | 18th October 2018 | Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Living, Sport & Recreation | 1 Comment

Running can take lots of different forms. Here is a list of my 5 favourite ways to run and where I like to do them around South Australia.

by Jacinta Brinsley | 5th October 2018 | Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Living, iNform blog, Medical Exercise Support, Stress | 0 Comments

What makes YOU exercise? (Other than your trainer) We all know that exercise is good for us. Some of us exercise for particular reasons and to get certain benefits over others. Whilst some of us exercise with goals in mind like running a half marathon or just being...

by Hunter Bennett | 10th September 2018 | Nutrition & Weight Loss | 0 Comments

The weather starts to improve, the days start to get longer, the shorts start to come out, and the knowledge that summer is just around the corner starts to hit. Happy days. Until you realize that you planned on doing a little more work in the gym before beach season…...

by Holly | 17th July 2018 | Medical Exercise Support | 0 Comments

Chemotherapy is prescribed to do a great number of things: to cure, aid other treatments, control the cancer, and help with symptom relief. It is a powerful tool, but as everyone knows, it brings with it a vast array of challenges, both during your cycles and after....

by scottwood | 17th July 2018 | Sport & Recreation | 1 Comment

The fours lads were ready to ride. Their backpacks were stuffed with water and sugary snacks. Their bikes were good to go. They planned to head off into the distance, but they didn’t know exactly where. What they did know is that they’d end up muddy, sweaty, hungry...

by James Smith | 14th June 2018 | Fitness & Exercise, Medical Exercise Support | 0 Comments

Can we use Strength Training for depression? Any keen gym goer would have heard of the film "Pumping Iron" - and the subsequent revolution of Bodybuilding. Besides from being built like Hercules and having a positive-B sample, Strength Training has a lot of wonderful...

by Dr. Nathan Harten | 25th April 2018 | Healthy Living, Nutrition & Weight Loss | 3 Comments

So we established in Part 1 of this blog that the guidelines suggest that two or more serves is how much fruit we should consume. However, for some of us, it’s really easy to over consume. And this may well be having a negative impact on our health. Now I finished the...

by iNformMaxMartin | 4th December 2017 | Nutrition & Weight Loss | 0 Comments

Warning - challenging content ahead! Please only read on if you are prepared to have a serious conversation with yourself about your health choices over the next month; and if you are willing to not only set up a plan to survive Christmas, but to come out the other...

by iNformMaxMartin | 21st November 2017 | Nutrition & Weight Loss | 0 Comments

Are you enjoying the warmer weather we are having in Adelaide? Have you started to attend a few extra barbeques and 'Christmas' parties already?! I certainly feel like the social calendar is getting busier, and so the demand for time is increasing. So I'd like to...

by Hunter Bennett | 17th October 2017 | Nutrition & Weight Loss | 0 Comments

With summer just around the corner many of us are starting to think about easing ourselves back into our old exercise routines. Whether it be to lose a couple of kilos, or to ensure we feel just  more comfortable spending time at the beach, most are slowly starting to...

by Dave Lowrey | 4th October 2017 | Sport & Recreation | 0 Comments

Walking is easy right? We learn to do it from around the first birthday mark and continue to work on it through our younger years until it becomes an action that we really think very little about. In this time we are building a base level of strength and function....

by James Smith | 4th December 2017 | Injury Prevention & Recovery | 0 Comments

Following on from the great work from my colleague Dr. Nathan Harten's last blog; I will continue educating you on the latest neuroscience on persistent pain. You may have been allluded to our brains wonderful capacity to protect to a ‘perceived’ threat. Perceived you...

by iNformMaxMartin | 4th October 2016 | Fitness & Exercise | 0 Comments

Too much of a good thing is never good. Well, this also holds true when it comes to training for a specific event. While specificity of training (that is, training specifically for the event one will compete in) is very important, specialising too early, or being too...

by Claire Neylon | 25th October 2016 | Healthy Living | 0 Comments

My generation at the moment seem to have an intriguing interest with the thought of an apocalypse in which zombies take over the world. Whether it be as a result of a nuclear event or a catastrophic disease I have heard numerous conspiracy theories of how and when it...

by scottwood | 28th April 2017 | Healthy Living | 0 Comments

We live in the age of the easily-offended. Where our outrage and anger is set on a hair-trigger. Social media has given us a platform to rant and rave. It is the 21st century soap-box. But is it worth it? What is the cost of being so quick to offend and outrage? In...

by iNformMaxMartin | 13th September 2016 | Fitness & Exercise | 0 Comments

Well, the last few weeks have seen me starting to clock up a few kms on the new steed, and I'm absolutely loving it. Having purchased the right bike, and being fit to it properly has made a huge difference to my enjoyment on it. By the way, do you know what the right...

by Claire Neylon | 10th August 2016 | Healthy Living | 0 Comments

Let’s start with a riddle………. This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Anyone who considers themselves a lord of the rings nerd might...

by iNformMaxMartin | 11th January 2018 | Healthy Living | 2 Comments

It's that time of year. Many resolutions have been made, and unfortunately, but not surprisingly, most of them have already been broken. How are yours fairing? One of the key reasons why our resolutions fail is because we haven't given them enough true value. If you...

by admin | 9th May 2016 | Fitness & Exercise | 0 Comments

I love people watching. My 'creative expression' is understanding human movement, and helping others move better so that they can get more from life. This is what I do, every day, and I love it. In fact, this is not a job, but somehow, a part of who I am. As such, I...

by Dr. Nathan Harten | 1st November 2017 | Injury Prevention & Recovery | 0 Comments

Quite often when we injure or hurt ourselves we tend to go back into our shells and stop our usual activities to prevent pain. This can often mean limiting our movement and exercise, as doing so creates more pain. This is normal and something that shouldn’t be feared....

by Hunter Bennett | 29th June 2017 | Injury Prevention & Recovery | 0 Comments

As someone who gets the opportunity to coach people on a daily basis, I work hard to get my clients moving with the best technique possible. Why is technique important in resistance training? Moving with poor or inefficient technique can lead to altered load...

by Dave Lowrey | 17th October 2018 | Healthy Living | 0 Comments

We all love to head away on holidays. My idea of a holiday may be quite different to someone else’s idea of a perfect getaway. Where some people like to unwind and relax on a European river cruise sipping Champagne and reading a good book, others may prefer a tropical...

by admin | 30th May 2017 | Healthy Living | 0 Comments

What drives our behaviours? Why do we do the things we do? The different reasons for motivation have been long reviewed. One in particular is whether motivation arises from inside (intrinsic) or outside (extrinsic) the individual. Different types of motivation...

by scottwood | 15th November 2018 | Injury Prevention & Recovery, Sport & Recreation | 0 Comments

Recently the Journal of Sports Sciences published a Systematic Review detailing the factors associated with injury in Elite Junior Tennis players. It is important that coaches and parents of such athletes are aware of the findings (Oosterhoof et al, 2018). Risk...

by Dr. Nathan Harten | 27th November 2013 | Healthy Living | 0 Comments

We don’t think much about the amount of time we sit on our butts, in fact we’ve geared sitting into pretty much every aspect of our lives. We only need to look at US data to see that TV viewing time and low activity jobs have doubled,  and miles spent in a vehicle has...