Fitness Tips

Is Yoga Good For Weight Loss?

How Yoga Helps You Lose Weight Yoga is a way of living that promotes physical and mental health and practicing Yoga is beneficial to the body. A person can achieve self-control, become physically fit, reduce stress and become mentally sharp also through the practice of yoga. Weight loss methods usually involve crash diets and medications… Read more

Resistance Training for Weight Loss

Resistance training- what is it, and how can it help you? Here’s a quick rundown of why certain exercises are incorporated into your workouts, but as always, seek out your Coach with more questions! How does resistance training help with fat loss? Your daily energy expenditure is largely determined by your “resting metabolic rate” (RMR) which… Read more

Is Rowing Good For Weight Loss?

If you’re not fortunate enough to already be an EFM Health Clubs member, getting started at the gym can be overwhelming, especially if your gym is a big one. There are many different types of machines to choose from, not to mention the weight lifting area and maybe even a pool. So how should your… Read more

Is Cycling Good For Weight Loss?

How Cycling Helps You Lose Weight Cycling is a fantastic aerobic because that works out your heart as well as your lungs and gets your blood pumping! It’s great for improving fitness and anyone can do it! Cycling can become an important part of your overall health, wellness and weight loss plan. Calories Burnt During… Read more

Is Skipping Good For Weight Loss?

  How Skipping Helps You Lose Weight Everyone is looking for fun and effective ways to lose weight, and skipping is one of these ways. Do you remember when you were young, skipping rope with your friends and didn’t have extra weight to shed? Ahhh the memories… And the good news is, you’re never too… Read more

Postural Alignment

Why is correct posture so important? Quite often poor posture or weakness in postural muscles is a large contributing factor to conditions such as neck, shoulder & back pain. Improving posture is also one of the most important common goals of our EFM members.  How can pilates movements improve posture? Strengthening the main stabilising &… Read more

Is Walking Good For Weight Loss?

How walking helps you lose weight Do you need a simple yet very effective way of losing weight? Try walking! Walking is a great way to burn extra calories and even if you’re just walking around your neighborhood it’ll still fire up your fat burning and help you along the way to weight loss. Walking… Read more

Honesty

Today I thought I’d talk about something very close to my heart; something paramount in maintaining a good relationship with your gym: HONESTY. EFM is a very personal business. It’s not a 24 hour gym where you’re just a number and a wallet. I feel I have a great relationship with all of my members,… Read more

Is Cardio Good For Fat Loss?

Updated 20th March 2023 Will I Lose Weight Doing Cardio Exercise? This is a common question and it is a common trend these days in the fitness community that cardio is not required, and that resistance training and forms of exercise such as yoga alone is enough to live a healthy and fulfilling life. While… Read more

Does Resistance Training Help With Weight Loss?

How resistance training helps you lose weight Resistance training is all about using a counter force to exert against your body movements. This may come in form of weights, elastic bands or even your own body weight. The main idea of resistance training is building and toning muscle strength though most people confuse this with… Read more

Coach Roger’s 2018km’s in 2018

It’s Christmas week of 2017 and a New Year dawns. I start to think, what challenge can I present myself this year? It’s been a lean couple of years for me with running, so why not a running goal! But what? A marathon? Probably not. Half marathon? Yeah, but I’d probably do that anyway, along… Read more

The benefits to training at an EFM

My name is Sam and I am the Coach at EFM Health Clubs Torrens Park. Recently I was asked what I think the benefits are to training at an EFM, compared to a regular gym. I broke it into three parts- the benefits of personalised training, the importance of variation, and the EFM club culture, which is… Read more