Regular exercise is one of the best things you can do for your health. Staying active improves your fitness, makes you stronger and helps delay or prevent chronic illnesses and diseases associated with aging. Here at Personal Best Fitness, North Hobart we offer all types of options to increase your levels of strength and fitness […]

At this time of the year, we often need to carry heavy, bags and parcels and this can play havoc with our back, neck, and shoulders. We can learn a great deal from farmers as they are some of the strongest, healthiest, and most mobile people you’ll find, but it’s not because they spend their […]

At Personal Best Fitness we offer you all 3 of these mediums to help you look, feel and function better. Recently, when some of our personal trainers have taught group exercise classes, we have had some questions and comments about why the class has been a different format, had different exercises or varied intensities. If […]

We often hear people blaming their weight gain on their hormones. Can weight gain really be blamed on the endocrine system or is the cause due to food and lifestyle choices? Many people have a vague idea of the function of hormones but have little knowledge of the specific hormones which may be affecting hunger, […]

People who exercise regularly have better mental health and emotional wellbeing, and lower rates of mental illness. Exercise is important for people with mental illness – it not only boosts your mood, concentration, and alertness, but improves cardiovascular and overall physical health. Many of us find it hard enough to motivate ourselves to exercise at […]

As personal trainers we are constantly asked: What is the best diet to lose weight? Which exercises are best to flatten my stomach? What foods are best for me to eat? I’ve been eating fruit for breakfast is that good for me? And the list goes on. Having been in the fitness industry for 30+ […]

As a Personal Trainer we have several tools that occupy our ‘toolbox’ and what often differentiates good from outstanding personal trainers is their ability to prescribe the most appropriate exercises for each client.  The TRX is one such tool. The TRX suspension trainer stands for ‘Total Resistance Exercise’ and it is essentially 2 straps anchored […]

Improving Quality of Life and Brain Function One of our goals at Personal Best Fitness is to encourage everybody to look and feel better and function in a more optimal way. Robert is certainly a ‘shining’ example of that.  Diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) over the last 3 years. FTD is characterized by the nerve […]

Comfort, Fear and Growth Zones What do these 4 zones mean when we are thinking about lifestyle change? In the current climate, we are finding ourselves in many situations that are requiring us to simply find another way. It is likely that many of you have had to make some sort of life change recently.  […]

Sofia first started at Personal Best as a personal training client of Eidolan’s after being referred by her physiotherapist some 11 years ago.  Sofia was experiencing knee pain from the demands of being an elite junior soccer player. Eidolan was pivotal in Sofia’s learnings of the body and the recovery process as she progressed her […]