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Tracking Your Strength Gains If you have found your way to the ION Training blog, you’re probably familiar with how great lifting inanimate objects and then putting them back down…
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GYM TERMINOLOGY & EXPLANATIONS
When it comes to Gym terminology, how much do you really know and how much are you guessing? Have you ever heard a term or phrase in the gym and weren’t…
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HOLIDAY FITNESS & TRAINING
Every year at Christmas time we read article upon article on how to “beat the Christmas kilos” or “avoid undoing all your hard work”. So let’s set the record straight…
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MOTIVATION TO EXERCISE
MOTIVATION TO TRAIN Motivation is an interesting concept – its simplest definition is a desire or a drive for some form of change within your life whether that be a…
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HABITS CREATION AND FORMATION
Habits are regular behaviours practiced over time. They are the small decisions that are made each and every day, both conscious and unconscious. Some sources claim that we can make…
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STATIC STRETCHING
IS STATIC STRETCHING POINTLESS? When is the last time you performed the stretch below? Well if you have not performed it while wearing a tie and an intense facial expression…
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STRENGTH & CONDITONING BOUTIQUE GYMS & SOCIAL FITNESS STUDIOS
WHY SPECIALIST BOUTIQUE GYMS & STUDIOS? Have you ever found yourself in a commercial gym participating in a class where you have no idea what’s going on and your only…
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EATING FOR PERFORMANCE
The link between exercise and good nutrition is very important when it comes to eating for performance. As a professional Rugby League player over the last decade, I have learnt…
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THE ART OF INDIVIDUAL COACHING IN A GROUP ENVIRONMENT
The Cambridge dictionary defines the word “coaching” as “the job or activity of providing training for people or helping to prepare them for something”. In essence, at ION we are…
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DISCIPLINE & TRAINING AT HOME
During this quieter period in Sydney CBD with the COVID-19 uncertainty stopping thousands of transient workers coming into the city for work, we took the chance to sit down with…
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