Everybody knows that following a healthy diet is…well, basically it is about eating healthy foods. However, that can be easier said than done, otherwise we wouldn’t need advice and support to sometimes achieve nutritional balance. After all, eating well may make sense but knowing what is good for you does not always automatically translate into the reality of what your daily dietary intake is.

As we covered earlier this month, inversions are powerful yoga poses that can strengthen your muscles, inspiring balance and stability and reinvigorating your circulation and lymphatic system. Yoga inversions provide a great physical challenge that boosts energy and inspires relaxation.

It’s one thing to be committing to an exercise regime but are you going through the motions or are you working out hard enough? Putting on your fitness gear and being active is commendable but unless you are working up a sweat you could be spending time on ineffective training.

Busy lives; fast food diets; it’s not surprising that the modern lifestyle leaves many people feeling frazzled, struggling uphill from after sugar hit slumps and generally less active and not in peak physical condition. While there might be lots of pluses to life today and we wouldn’t want to turn back the clock, but is it time you changed your diet to get back to nature?

Since habits and lifestyles form so quickly, it’s worthwhile taking stock from time to time and looking at whether you need to make any adjustments or even a complete overhaul of many aspects of your life, including your diet.

Sometimes you need to shake things up to get a fresh perspective on life and you can also do the same with yoga exercises. Creating a different approach to movement with yoga inversions can have some really beneficial effects on your mind and body, such as strengthening your core and so much more.

As we get older and life seems to get more complex, not to mention busy, responsibilities at home and in our working lives can overwhelm, leaving us with what feels like precious little time to ourselves. It’s easy to understand how exercise can take a back seat to other seemingly more pressing priorities.

Have you ever considered keeping a food journal? According to studies, it could help you shed twice as much weight, making it an effective tool to transform your diet, your body and even your mind. So how does a food journal really benefit you? And how do you keep one? Is it time you analyzed your nutrition in black and white? It might prove to be an effective weight-loss and diet-changing tool!

If you can’t really see how a food journal could change what you eat, when and how much, then you might want to factor in the following benefits.

Breathing techniques are a crucial part of yoga practice to inspire and promote wellbeing and to control what is known as Prana, our body’s vital life energy. Controlling the breath and using it to work with yoga movements and poses, is regarded as a way of bringing more oxygen to the blood and to the brain, stimulating wellness and creating a sense of balance in your practice.

Planks are in the top 10 of the best abdominal exercises to do, according to to the American Council on Exercise. There’s no doubt about it that planks have become a go-to strength exercise which has great benefits for the whole body. If you have not yet harnessed the power of the plank then it is time to find out what’s so great about them!

What is a plank?

A plank is what is known as an isometric exercise, which means that during contraction you do not change the angle of the joint or the muscle length.

Have you ever felt suddenly inspired to change your lifestyle and your diet? It’s great to react to these surges of motivation and so strike while the iron is hot. But if you genuinely want to create healthier mealtimes then you need to plan ahead and not just launch into a new dieting strategy randomly, which is more likely to lead to failure.