"The evidence is so strong now. Exercise is a very powerful medicine. It increases survival and it has no side effects.” -- Professor Robert Newton

As a fitness junkie who trains 3-4 times a week, I know how good it feels to exercise. I feel strong. I feel energised. I...

An I Want Fitness Success Story.

When Maggie Game joined I Want Fitness bootcamp a year and a half ago, she used to walk in with her shoulders slumped, looking a little lost.

“You could see she was unhappy in her own skin. And she admits she was pretty scared when she s...

In this year's Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends, wearable technology is the number one trend.

Look around you. How many wearables are taking up wrist space? FitBit, Jawbone, Garmin, Misfit, Apple Watch. New sizes. New colours. New functions.

The smart armbands aren’t...

I’ve been going to I Want Fitness for two years. That’s a long-term relationship. I must be in love. 

With any partnership, it pays to think about what’s working for you: how you feel, what the spark is, what you’re getting out of the connection.

So, what are the qual...

Sisters Amanda and Katy arrived at the last bootcamp session for 2015 dressed in matching Hello Kitty Christmas pyjamas and reindeer antlers. 

They’re totally in sync these two – training and laughing together, cheering each other on, and making wisecracks.

It’s an in...

 The Pontif has decreed that social media is making us lonely. In a recent sermon to bishops in Pennsylvania, Pope Francis declared the virtual circles of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are at the root of society’s ‘radical loneliness’.

“I would dare say that at the r...

It’s been six weeks since I hobbled into the Emergency department of William Angliss, grimacing like a constipated meerkat – my lower back locked up in spasm after an old injury reared its ugly head (making a sandpit for your digging dog will do it).

Five years ago, wh...

Young Gold Coast woman Evita Sarmonikas went to Mexico to get buttock implants. The healthy 29 year old suffered a cardiac arrest after the cosmetic surgery and it’s costing her family $20,000 to have her body brought back to Australia.

That tragedy is a terrible symbo...