by The Fit Lab | Feb 18, 2021 | Allied Health Programs, Nutrition
International Asperger’s Day is a day to raise awareness of the condition that affects approximately 37.2million individuals globally. It is a day to celebrate the individuals overcoming many challenges each day and acknowledging their achievements whilst living with...
by The Fit Lab | Feb 10, 2021 | Physiology
Manual therapy involves all forms of hands on treatment performed by your physiotherapist. This may include soft tissue massage, trigger point therapy, neural tissue mobilisation, joint mobilisations or passive joint range of movement techniques. These techniques are...
by The Fit Lab | Nov 27, 2018 | High Performance Unit, Physiology
Here is Kevin’s story… Part 1 “I guess like any story like mine, I wasn’t always weighing in at 128kg. As a kid up until about the age of 22 or so I was an extremely active fit fella, played huge amounts of our national sport (hurling, Gaelic...
by The Fit Lab | Sep 25, 2018 | Physiology, Weight Lifting
So you want to build some muscle mass? It’s easy right… Sign up to the gym, buy some protein shakes, eat lots of chicken and rice, lift something heavy, read Arnold Schwarzenegger’s encyclopaedia to bodybuilding and all of a sudden you’ve got some extra muscle....
by The Fit Lab | Sep 20, 2018 | Weight Lifting
Well here you are, you’ve walked into the gym with your new weights program, new protein shaker, and your fit bit is all set. You finish an adequate warm up and then go to set yourself up on your first exercise, oh, wait a minute, you’ve forgotten one small detail....