Healthy snacks to enjoy this Christmas

Eating healthy snacks at Christmas? Surely that’s a contradiction in itself like ‘Exciting new developments in banking’. How can the words ‘healthy’ and ‘Christmas’ appear in the same sentence? How can anything representing forever be recognised as a celebration of calories and feverish feasting? How can Christmas even sit in the same paragraph as the word healthy?

7 Practical fitness tips for the festive season

The festive season isn’t called the Silly Season for nothing. All the good habits we try to maintain for the rest of the year go out the back door for two weeks of glorious overindulgence. Why? Who knows, it’s just always been like that.

12 Days of Fitmas Challenge

Want to have a little fun with your fitness before Christmas? With Christmas just around the corner, join us in counting down the 12 days before Christmas with our 12 Days of Fitmas fitness challenge calendar.

Top 10 Christmas Stocking Ideas

Can you believe that the holidays are here already? Yikes, us neither! Genesis Fitness together with Lorna Jane believe that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year and we want to help take the stress out of your gift shopping.

The Basics of Nutrition and Healthy Eating

If you’ve indulged in Christmas feasting, you may be tempted to lose the extra weight gained over the holiday season. But don’t be tempted to starve yourself; there are safer and healthier ways to lose weight while eating a wide range of food.

Top 5 Tips To Stay Healthy While Feasting This Christmas

Don’t let the festive season turn into a silly season when it comes to Christmas feasting. Here are our top five tips to stay healthy while you treat yourself.

6 Tips to Avoid the Festive Season Over Indulgence

'Tis the season to be jolly – and eat everything in sight. When it comes to Christmas, over indulgence is all too easy, and with the amount of food piled high in every home, Christmas party and catered lunch around, finding balance can be tricky.

5 Simple Tips to Avoid Becoming a Christmas Pud

Yet again it’s that time of year where we have a diary that is full of Christmas functions, work deadlines, late night Christmas shopping, cleaning out a spare room in preparation for the arrival of your in laws, Christmas lunch, Christmas dinner, Christmas left overs, Christmas drinks, Christmas holidays, New Year’s eve…. The list is never ending. There is no doubt these coming weeks are some of the hardest to keep up your regular training routine and some of the easiest to gain an extra 5kg!

How To Lose Weight While On Holidays!

There are a number of people that go on holidays and use them as an excuse to eat whatever they like, move as little as possible and gain weight, and there are those who view the holiday period as an opportunity to eat well, move more and who ultimately lose weight, often quite a few kg in fact. So if you would like to be in the first group this Christmas, here are the simple steps to be a holiday loser, and tricks that will serve you well for life.