Staying healthy for your sport or gym training is of fundamental importance if you want to be the best you can be. Hot and cold therapies are useful methods of preventing aches and pains and minimising injury risks in your training programme. In this review, we look at three RÖWO sports therapy ...

Ever wonder what super foods endurance athletes use to fuel their bodies? Whether your discipline is running, swimming, cycling or any other sport, low energy is simply not an option! You need to provide your body with enough energy to meet the demands of training and enable proper recovery between ...

Native to the ecoregion known as The Amazon Basin, Guarana (pron: g'wara-naa) is a climbing plant which produces a reddish brown fruit. The seeds from this fruit are ground down into powder form and are regularly used as a dietary supplement. The Guarana plant is categorised into the ‘Acer genus’ ...

With no agreed place of origin, a multitude of myths from a host of cultures surrounding their uses as signs of social hierarchy through to symbols of immortality and their ambiguous position in nature in which they are considered more closely related to humans than plants – the prehistoric ...

Sometimes in life, strenuous never-ending workloads, lack of physical movement, poor posture and spinal misalignment can potentially lead to tense muscles that would rival those of an imposing, well-trained pitbull based on overcompensation due to muscular imbalances. Although it would be ...

Nowadays, as the health and wellbeing industry continues to grow at an increasing rate, more and more people are looking for ways to develop their mental performance and cognitive abilities, to achieve more and improve their health. From mindfulness to NLP; athletes, business leaders and ...

First cultivated by the Romans, beetroot belongs to the same family as spinach and chard. It is a vegetable best suited to cooler growing conditions, it's an important part of Slav and Nordic and now, far more international cooking. Beetroot has a history of being used as a medicine, particularly ...

There are many things that inspire us to be the best version of ourselves, to move past limits, break down barriers, act toward our goals and strive to be what we always believed and imagined we could someday be. The athletes of our time remind us resoundingly of that spark within, that sense of ...

More and more professional athletes from around the world are making the transition to a plant-based diet. Most people would assume athletes have to have a strict, high protein, meat-based dietary programme in order to maintain their intensive workout routines. So why are they making the change and ...

July saw the return of the CrossFit Games to the Stubhub Centre, Carson California, testing the world’s fittest athletes and watched by an increasing worldwide audience. After such physical intensity you'll want to read on for these 5 Top Ways to Recover from Gruelling Workouts! CrossFit is all ...