Tackling The Healthy Christmas Minefield

The PTX Fitness Guides For Christmas 2020 Mindset As we head towards Christmas, at what has been a very unusual and difficult year. We got to thinking about how everyone can avoid going on a strict diet over the festive period. Enjoy more than you thought you might be able to (or should do), but…

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Resistance Training for Children

It’s often stated that children should not engage in resistance training with weights as it will stunt their growth. However, this is not the case.  Given the current obesity pandemic, this myth is in fact doing more harm than resistance training ever could. Here are some statistics from the World Health Organisation: • Worldwide obesity…

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EXERCISE AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

By PTX Fitness Perth, Scotland. www.ptx.fitness Exercise And Your Body Exercise and your bodies health go hand in hand. Daily exercise is therefore a vital component of living a long and healthy life. However, did you know that it can also improve your bodies immune system response? As we all deal with the fall out…

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Busy vs Effective

Whether it be for business, fitness or just life in general, it’s important to avoid the busy trap. That being when you get bogged down with day-to-day activities that keep you very busy but don’t actually help you move forward towards your goal or desired outcome.   The first step in achieving anything is to…

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Manage Calories Like a Budget

Manage Your Calories Like A Budget To Lose More Weight Why this one calorie-tracking trick could fix your biggest weight loss challenges Good news for the analytical amongst you – losing weight is a simple matter of mathematics. That’s not to say it’s easy (nobody is claiming that). But it is simple. Great if you…

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