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Blast your Lunchtimes

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A personal trainer, Elle Kealy has been in Hong Kong for eight years and started working at Flex at the beginning of the year. She leads HIIT Cardio Body Blast and Xtend Barre, putting her mixed dance and fitness background to good use. “I love movement,” she says. “I love finding ways for women to stay fit that are fun and engaging. The classes at Flex have a welcoming and inclusive vibe about them, and they’re achievable for all sorts of people with all sorts of fitness levels.”

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Flex Sponsors the BlueSeventy Ocean Swim Series 2015

Blog, Fitness

Taking the family to the beach is always fun, so why not up the excitement and join over 1,000 other swimmers at the Blueseventy Ocean Swim Series? This super-successful event has been running since 2004. “The Ocean Swim Series was created with the objective to offer competitive but fun open-water swimming race to swimmers of all ages and abilities,” says Tiffany Yam, business development manager of organizing company Revolution-Asia. There will be three races, held over the 30th August, 6th September and 27th September, all starting and finishing and around on Hong Kong Island.

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Pilates & Our Children: Fitness for the Future

Blog, Fitness, Wellness

The health of today’s children is compromised by a culture of convenience and increasingly sedentary activity. Eating fast food, watching TV and playing video games has become habitual while a nutritious diet and physical activity is on the downslide.
A recent report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that approximately 30.3% of children between the ages of 6 to 11 are overweight and that 15.3% are obese. For adolescents between the ages of 12 to 19, 30.4% are overweight and 15.5% are obese.

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Raw Sprouted Granola

Blog, Nutrition

A great way to start the day right, or as a healthy, energy-laden snack when fatigue sets in, SpiceBox Organic’s Raw Sprouted Granola is a wonderful combination of crunchy and sticky with just the right amount of sweetness. The recipe calls for a dehydrator, however if you don’t have one at home you can use your regular oven turned to its very lowest setting. You may need to experiment a little on timings, however 6 to 8 hours is a good starting point.

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Get your kids excited about fitness

Blog, Lifestyle

Do your kids like music? Dance? Yoga, martial arts, action and fun? In that case they’ll love the new Les Mills BORN TO MOVE™ group classes launching at Flex this month.
Les Mills is no ordinary fitness company. They created some of the most popular classes playing across gyms worldwide, like BODYPUMP™, BODYCOMBAT™ and RPM™. With BORN TO MOVE™ they are teaching a positive attitude to physical activity that will stand each child in good healthy stead for the rest of their lives.

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Slowing down for restorative yoga

Blog, Fitness, Wellness

Half French, half Chinese and fully Canadian, Flex’s yoga instructor Heloise has been leading a number of restorative yoga classes since she joined back in June. Her combination flow-restorative Recharge & Restore classes have a dual offering of yoga workout and yoga rest, while Yoga Bliss is gentle yoga stretches, restoring the mind and body and including light massage and aromatherapy. For more peace and balance in your daily life, mentally and spiritually as well as physically, explore restorative yoga in one of Heloise’s classes.

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5 Tips for Practicing Arm Balances

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Confession: I have an aversion to arm balances. Aversion (dvesha) according to the sutras, is just another flavor of attachment and one of the ways we create suffering in our lives. While I don’t think it’s necessary to practice headstand or handstand to be a “real” yogi, I do believe that real yoga means practicing equanimity. Confronting our aversions may reveal lessons about acquiring balance in our lives—but we have to start by greeting the challenge.
To approach arm balances, the first thing I needed to change, obviously, was my attitude.

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Coconut Butter Spreads

Blog, Nutrition

When I tell people I make coconut butter, many people say, “That’s great, I love coconut oil.” Coconut oils have become very popular recently, especially for those looking for weight loss, as well as pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. But while coconut oil is an extract taken from the coconut seed, coconut butter is ground sun dried coconut, and retains the sweetness and creaminess of the coconut.
Coconut butter is packed with benefits: lauric acid to boost the immunity, metabolism and energy, as well as amino acids, calcium and magnesium.

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Support the Oceans

Blog, Fitness, Wellness

This year the Jax Sheko Challenge celebrates its ninth year on July 11th and Flex is sponsoring! With the largest amount of pre-registered participants in the competition’s history, the 2015 open water swimming, ridge running and ocean paddling ‘trisolothon’ will be simultaneously highlighting the importance of preserving the world’s oceans more strongly than ever before. “Hong Kong’s biggest natural asset is the ocean, yet for years we have not treated it in that manner,” says Doug Woodring, race director and Director and Co-founder of Ocean Recovery Alliance.

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