In an ever increasing time-poor society, created by long working hours and family commitments, it can be difficult to fit in time to exercise. Below are five tips to help you stay active when you have little time to spare.

After writing a post on Top 10 Tips For Keeping Up Your Fitness Regime, using my top tips from Twitter, I thought I would also share with you my top Twitter diet tips - to help you kick-start and maintain a healthy diet.

Unless you are experienced with exercise, or have an experienced trainer, it can be hard to know if you are doing the right exercise, with the right intensity, and regularly enough, to achieve the fitness/strength/fat loss goals you are looking to achieve.

There is no denying that the weight loss industry is booming - with  a proliferation of diets, programs and plans available for people looking to lose unwanted kilos.

Most people, whether they're new to exercise, are a long-term gym goer, or are an accomplished athlete, experience muscle soreness 12-48 hours after they do a new and/or tough training session. Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is the term used to explain this phenomenon.

Walk into any gym and I'm sure you will see someone doing a squat exercise - bodyweight, with a barbell, swissball, dumbbells - you will see many variations.

In my last post Cholesterol. It's Good For You, I highlighted the role cholesterol plays in the body and the impact of saturated fat on blood cholesterol levels. In this article I want to explain the different types of cholesterol and give you some helpful tips on how to lower high blood cholesterol levels.

'Low-fat' and 'fat-free' products fill many shelves in the supermarket. However to have a healthy diet it is not enough just to know which foods are high or low in fat; we also need to look at the different types of fat, and understand the role they play in our body when they are consumed.

In my last post Weight Loss Vs Fat Loss - Losing Fat Without Losing Muscle, I discussed the difference between weight loss and fat loss and the key points to consider when looking to lose fat. In this post I will delve a little deeper into why traditional weight loss methods don't work and what changes need to occur in the body to make sure you get the fat loss results you are after.

Most people looking to lose weight look to see what the scales say in order to measure their weight loss success. However weighing yourself is not the best way to measure fat loss.