Golf
Why the Gym Is the Only Club You're Missing
Your body is the one piece of golf equipment you can't replace. Why strength, mobility and movement control in the gym can add clubhead speed, protect your lower back and keep you playing for decades.
From the studio
Training, movement and food
31 posts from the MarionPT team — exercises, articles and recipes we actually use.
- Articles 14
- Exercise 6
- NUTRITION 3
- NEWS 2
- Golf 1
- FITNESS 1
Articles
Your Preparations for X-mas Start Today.
December brings Christmas parties, sugary food and alcohol. Here's how to pre-burn the calories with everyday activity, smarter gym work and easy food swaps — starting today.
Exercise
Exercise and Diabetes: How Movement Helps You Take Control
How exercise changes glucose handling in type 1 and type 2 diabetes: how much you need, why hard training can push blood sugar up, what to check before you start, and how to train safely.
NUTRITION
Cultivating Your Microbiome for Peak Wellness
Your gut microbiome interacts with your muscles, your immune system and your brain. Five research-backed ways exercise, recovery and food shape the ecosystem inside you.
Articles
Healthy eating tips for you and your kids
It is not easy being a parent, and it can be tricky to keep your kids eating healthy. Five simple, practical changes to your family's food — colour, whole foods, smarter sweeteners, easy swaps and water.
FITNESS
Here's the best proven plan for your goals
What is ONE step you can take today to help you feel healthier, fitter, stronger and more energised? The best workout plan isn't the perfect one — it's the one you'll actually do.
NUTRITION
Diet or exercise?
Which has more impact on weight loss, diet or exercise? Studies suggest diet accounts for around 75% of your success and exercise 25% — but that isn't the whole story.
NEWS
The Half Marathon Row Challenge
How hard is it to row a half marathon on the Concept2? 21,097 metres, 2,217 strokes, one rebelling Gluteus Maximus — and a finishing time of 1:28:25.
NEWS
My journey from 5k to 21k
The lessons I learned running my first half marathon, when three months earlier I could only manage 5 km. Sore knees over 40 are not just part of life.
Articles
Self-worth vs self-esteem
Self-worth and self-esteem are not the same thing. What the difference is, why it matters for a fitness and wellness lifestyle, and a four-step exercise to build it.
Articles
Stop Planning Your Way to Fitness: Why Imperfect Action Wins
Why so many people prepare to get fit without ever starting. The Stages of Change model, the gap between planning and action, and why a slightly imperfect plan you follow beats a perfect one you don't.
Articles
Want to Change Your Life? Make the First Step Ridiculously Small
Why starting absurdly small beats starting big. BJ Fogg's B = MAP formula, habit stacking, and how to shrink a health goal until it's almost impossible to fail.
Articles
Forget 21 Days: Your Brain Counts Reps, Not Calendars
Where the 21-day habit myth came from, why the 66-day figure hides a huge spread, and why counting repetitions is more useful than counting days.
Articles
The Health Basics That Never Go Out of Fashion
A ten-point self-care check-in covering stress, food, movement, sleep, hygiene, alcohol, smoking, connection, daylight and enjoyment. Not a 30-day challenge — something you return to for life.
Articles
Your Circle of Influence: A Simple Way to Feel More in Control
Stephen Covey's Circle of Concern and Circle of Influence, and how to use them to spend less energy worrying and more on the handful of things where your actions genuinely matter.
Articles
An overview of gut health basics
What gut health actually means, why the balance between good and bad bacteria matters for digestion, immunity and mood, and six practical things you can do about it.
Articles
What is emotional eating?
How to tell emotional hunger from physical hunger, why we eat when we feel down, and simple ways to slow down at the table. No judgment, no good foods and bad foods.
Lunch
Lunch recipes
Five healthy lunch recipes from MarionPT: chicken and asparagus salad with blueberries, broccoli super slaw, pumpkin and spinach toastie, spinach and tomato pesto wrap, and white bean and feta salad.
Breakfast
Breakfast recipes
Six healthy breakfast recipes from MarionPT: good stuff toast, strawberry yoghurt muesli, a maple nut parfait, banana peanut butter oatmeal, a pear protein smoothie and egg on sourdough.
Dinner
Dinner recipes
Seven healthy dinner recipes from MarionPT: Thai sweet potato and carrot soup, falafel with Greek yoghurt, sweet potato and kale shakshuka, lemon salmon, meat-free chilli and two tortillas.
Snacks
Snacks & drinks
Three healthy snack and drink recipes from MarionPT: baked zucchini chips, gluten-free banana nut muffins, and a golden green tea, ginger and turmeric iced tonic.
Articles
How to become a fitness family
Simple, cheap ways to get the whole family moving together — chores as a competition, dance parties, family fitness nights, and a bit of friendly rivalry to keep everyone at it.
Exercise
Want to Get Faster? Train Your Body to Produce Force Fast
Why speed comes down to how much force you can put into the ground in the time your foot is on it — and how strength, power, plyometrics and sprinting each build a different part of it.
Articles
Does Training Harder Make You Live Longer?
How much exercise you actually need for the biggest return: what the longevity research says about volume, intensity, cardiorespiratory fitness, strength training and steps.
Exercise
5 Rules of Weight Training Most People Ignore
Five weight-training rules worth paying attention to, updated with what the research actually says about load, tempo, exercise variation, eccentrics and rest periods.
Exercise
Reduce Muscle Soreness? Here's What Actually Works
What delayed onset muscle soreness actually is, why stretching and cooling down don't prevent it, and the handful of things that genuinely help — including the one that works better than everything else combined.
Exercise
How Plyometric Training Helps You Win at Basketball
Why plyometric training builds the jumping power basketball demands, three exercises worth doing, and the rules on volume and recovery that stop it going wrong.
Articles
Is Personal Training Right for You?
What a personal trainer actually does, what the research says about training under supervision, and an honest look at who benefits from it and who doesn't.
Articles
Rheumatoid Arthritis and Exercise
What rheumatoid arthritis actually is, why the old advice to rest has been overturned, and how to build an exercise program around inflamed joints without making things worse.
NUTRITION
The Benefits of Organic Wholefoods
Why minimally processed food matters so much, what the research actually shows about organic versus conventional produce, and three simple organic breakfasts to start with.
Exercise
Correct Form and Exercise
What good form actually means, practical cues for core, range of motion, breathing and symmetry, and an honest look at how much technique really has to do with injury.