Personal Training is proven to be one of the most effective ways in achieving your health and fitness goals, than training alone.
One-on-One sessions with your VLE Health & Fitness Personal Trainer will be intense, focused, fun and keep you highly motivated to get great fitness results.
We provide you a comprehensive fitness program for aerobic, resistance, core and flexibility exercises, and tailor each personal training session specifically to your goals and abilities. Our personal trainers will guide you with your nutrition, exercise programs and advise you on ways to boost your daily activity levels to help you gain long term health and fitness success.
These one hour sessions take place in our boutique personal training studio in Rozelle, Sydney.
Buddy sessions with your VLE Health & Fitness Personal Trainer are a great way to get fit with a partner or friend!
As well as being a cost effective way to train, fitness should be fun and working out with a mate can make your sessions a lot more social and motivating. It doesn't matter if you are at different fitness levels or have different goals, we tailor individual programs and help guide you and your buddy to achieve your health and fitness goals. It helps if you can bring your own partner, but contact us to see if we have someone of similar abilities and aims we can match you up with.
As well as being a cost effective way to train, fitness should be fun and working out with a group can make your sessions a lot more social and motivating. It doesn't matter if you are at different fitness levels or have different goals, we tailor individual programs and help guide you all to achieve your health and fitness goals. It helps if you have your own group, but contact us to see if we have a group of similar abilities and aims we can match you up with.
Not only will you have lots of fun with your friends, you will also find yourself extra motivated to get out there each week.
'Energised' is a new exciting jogging squad on the 'Bay Run' starting at Brett Park (Henley Marine Drive), Drummoyne*, where athletes of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome.
Our jogging squad still provides runners with competitive spirits to train for events such as fun runs, half marathons, marathons, corporate races and City 2 Surf, while still allowing for an enjoyable social group run.
Focusing on running techniques such as breathing and general fitness development, we use a wide variety of training methods such as easy running, hills, fartlek training (running sessions with change of pace) and drills.
Prepare for fun, social interaction and motivation! *Call to join a group today – 1300 696 113
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 16% of men and 17% of women are now classified as obese while a further 42% of men and 25% of women are overweight.
Although no figures are available for this country to link obesity with productivity at work, research in the US has estimated that companies spend as much as US$61 ($78) billion on direct health care costs and US$56 ($71) billion in indirect costs due to loss of productivity as a result of obesity.
At VLE Health & Fitness we offer a variety of innovative and cost effective fitness programs designed to unite, motivate and drive your team toward a healthier and more active lifestyle.
All your participating team members undergo the Vital Lifestyle Experience Fitness Assessment* session where they can discover their own health status, their ideal targets and using nationally recognised norms, set personal health goals.
Conducted outdoors or onsite, we offer a variety of programs to suit all ages and all fitness levels and can tailor a program specifically to suit your company needs.
All Vital Lifestyle Experience Corporate Fitness programs are measured and results are documented and given to your team in a special awards presentation that is designed to celebrate success and personal achievement, and to encourage giving that extra effort.
*Vital Lifestyle Experience Fitness Assessment comprises – cardiovascular test, push up test, abdominal sit up test, timed plank hold, sit and reach flexibility test
What are the benefits of Corporate Training?
A survey of Health and wellbeing programs in Australian Workplaces, published in the Australian Humans Resources Institute Journal revealed a return of between $4 and $11 for every $1 spent in terms of improved productivity and reduced labour related costs.
There is an endless array of company and individual benefits for having a corporate fitness program in place for your team. These include:
Improved health, lifestyle and wellbeing for team and their families
Reduced absenteeism by up to 20% and sick leave by up to 27% as studies have found*
Increase in team and company morale
Greater productivity
Reported decreased employee turn over by up to 11%**
Team cohesion
Employer of choice
Modern corporate culture
Stress management
Compliance to OH&S legislation
Decreased workers compensation costs
Increase in vitality, confidence and self esteem
Protection against some lifestyle diseases
*Information and statistics – www.humanresourcesmagazine.com.au
**Source – Australian Bureau of Statistics
Vital Combo Corporate Program
Your Corporate Fitness program can include a total body conditioning work out where your team work through:
High intensity boxing combinations and aerobic exercises that will help to increase focus, get energetic and are a great stress release
Resistance exercises using body weight, resistance bands, and weights to develop strong muscles that are able to endure the demanding working life
Abdominal strengthening to firm up the core muscles to help correct and maintain optimal posture
Flexibility exercises designed to lengthen out tired, tight and sore muscles that work repetitively all day
Balance training, correct muscle recruitment patterns and coordination. It is important to challenge existing level of competence, as the body has to constantly shift and contract to stay aligned
VLE Health & Fitness Studio also specialise in working with athletes of all ages and levels. Using proven successful and up to date training methods, our aim is to improve your performance by enhancing the conditioning of your physical abilities to match the needs of your training objective/sport.
Put simply 'we help to make athletes... better athletes!'
Hatha Yoga is the latest service available at VLE Health & Fitness Studio.
The Ashtanga and Hatha Yoga system is a rigorous or sometimes gentle practice and can be comparable to the training of an elite athlete.
Consisting of 240 postures and hundreds of variations, done in six successive series (vinyasa) linked by the breath, Ashtanga Yoga represents the most intensive form of Hatha Yoga.
The purpose of this continual flow of action is to create heat, which produces a cleansing or detoxifying effect on the body. Ashtanga places equal emphasis on strength, flexibility and stamina.
Many fitness enthusiasts who thrive on intensive workouts, like this style of Yoga. This style is often called ‘Power Yoga’.
Hatha Yoga is the gentler version of Ashtanga and you will have the option to choose which one of these styles you prefer.
Things that you should know and follow for Yoga:
Don’t eat for at least 2 hours before your practice. Yoga is best performed on an empty stomach. First thing in the morning is ideal!
Don’t drink water throughout your practice. Yoga is designed to heat the body internally and whole you are heating, it is a shock to the body to instantly cool it…The heat should cool down naturally…If you overheat during your practice, take some cooling breaths over the tongue instead of through the nose.
Milk is important for your diet. This aids your central nervous system and will help you sleep at night.
Only go as far as your body will physically let you…there is always tomorrow.
Muscles may become sore, so a good bath, and/or self massage (ideal with some muscle balm) are ideal to help manage the discomfort.
Always take Savasana (resting pose), at the end of your practice. This gives the body and the mind a chance to reconnect.
Pilates
Developed in the 1920's by the legendary physical trainer, Joseph H. Pilates, the Pilates method is a set of principles and movements designed to dramatically improve strength, flexibility, posture and coordination. Pilates combines awareness of the spine, proper breathing, and strength and flexibility training to achieve slimmer, longer, stronger muscles...without building bulk.
Goal specific and time effective, Pilates is a low impact exercise mode for any level of fitness. Often referred to as a 'thinking persons workout', concentration and focus enables you to isolate muscles and fine-tune movements, encouraging your body to reach its full potential.
With Pilates, you learn how to control and improve your posture, as well as learning specific breathing techniques to help maximise abdominal control and strength. Pilates invigorates the mind and elevates the spirit.
Pilates caters for everyone, from the beginner to the advanced. Exercises can be performed using your own body weight, or with the aid of various pieces of equipment. A typical Pilates workout would include a number of exercises performed at low repetitions in sets of 5 to 10, with a session lasting approximately 60 minutes. Each exercise is performed with attention to proper breathing techniques and abdominal control.
Benefits of Pilates:
Improves posture and body awareness
Helps maintain and increase a healthy body both inside and out
Low impact program
The powerhouse - the abdomen, lower back and buttocks - are supported and strengthened
Engages body and mind through concentration of each muscle movement
Focuses on improving flexibility and strength for the total body without building bulk
VLE Health & Fitness Studio have a long association with Capoeira (VLE founder Dom, taught, studied and performed Capoeira in Australia, Brazil, and Spain for 1/3 of his life)
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of Martial Arts, Music, Dance and Acrobatics.
The ritual and/or game of Capoeira is where participants form a roda (circle), and take turns either playing musical instruments, singing, or ritually sparring in pairs in the center of the circle.
Fluid acrobatic play, feints, takedowns, and extensive use of leg sweeps, and kicks mark the sparring.
Capoeira's origin dates back 500 years to the beginnings of Brazil's slave trade period. Throughout the 488 year slave trade the Congo, Bantu, and Angolan tribes met and intermingled in the slave quarters and in the escaped-slave regions.
From this intermingling of cultures came a melding of traditions and rituals, and Capoeira was born.
What police once outlawed is now an international phenomenon. Across the globe in fitness circles, artist communities, on print and television film we see Capoeira's legacy.
In the last few years, Capoeira has taken the world by storm.
In Australia it is in demand, rapidly becoming the most sought-after art form and means of creative self-expression.
