Keeping Fit

With waists the ‘look’ this season, celebrity fitness & wellness trainer David Kirsch’s Ultimate New York Body Plan will not only give you a great waist in just 14 days, but also help you lose up to two dress sizes - so you can wear figure-hugging fashion with confidence.

A new survey* reveals that over 40% of people are put off sports by the prospect of injury. But if bravery came without bruises, Brits would favour fencing (28%), kick boxing (27%) and pole dancing (25%), followed by ice hockey (9%), Lacrosse (6%) and water polo (5%). And its not just nerves that get in the way, it seems many people have a distorted view of sporting dangers as 45% consider rugby to be more hazardous than boxing (36%)!

Joe Shepherd and partner Anthony Smith, continue to push the boundaries at excerciseshop by launching ‘Cardiovibe.’ Cardiovibe, a unique cross training style class (for four to eight people) is a combination of challenging cardiovascular exercise in the form of spinning, rowing and treadmill, and includes vibrogym training.

West London-based fitness consultancy Beez Kneez has launched Platinum Brides, a realistic, affordable programme that guarantees fabulous hair, skin and body for brides-to-be, with no gym and no dieting.

Villagers across Mendip are going to be On The Move from next week. As part of a new healthy lifestyle initiative, Mendip District Council has teamed up with Peter Grosjean, a UK athletics qualified coach and qualified fitness and circuits instructor, to bring exercise out of the leisure centres and into the rural areas of Mendip.

excerciseshop, based in NW8, not only has a comprehensive fitness studio, but as possibly the first of it’s kind, will have an onsite medical team, including a resident GP and osteopath, offering sports massage and advice on Nutrition.

Some people avoid yoga because they think they are too out of shape, too inflexible or are worried that their aches and pains will be aggravated, well now there is no excuse. Yoga To The Rescue is a brand new yoga DVD from world-renowned yoga instructor Desirée Rumbaugh that teaches you how to use yoga to help relieve chronic or acute pain as well as helping stay in shape.

There’s an exciting new way for women to get into shape and cultivate their sensuality with the fantastic Dance Of The Kama Sutra With Hemalayaa, a brand new DVD which uses meditation and playful movements taken from traditional Indian dance.

250 schools in deprived areas across the country joined the Department of Health's 'Schools on the Move' National Pedometer Programme last Friday. Between September 2007 and March 2008, 45,000 pedometers will be distributed to encourage schoolchildren to become more active and help reduce levels of obesity.

Roger Federer may have been crowned Champion yesterday in the 2007 Wimbledon men’s singles finals but Andre Agassi and Maria Sharapova have been voted the sexiest male and female champions of Wimbledon from the last 20 years.