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18.01.2022 Pilates is also a Mind-Body practice!

18.01.2022 Check out the latest information about activity trackers and Pilates vs resistance training!

17.01.2022 Check out Redcord on the Pilates Community group page!!

13.01.2022 Innovative approaches to food wastage 07/31/2015 Wastage is a significant issue for the food industry, and it’s likely that there will be numerous approaches ne...eded to tackle it. Here are some examples of innovative approaches to the problem. When food goes bad at the supermarkets, it’s usually thrown out which is why New York entrepreneur Carlos de Santiago has created the BuyMeBy platform, which allows stores to offer discounts on certain perishable food items that are approaching their expiration dates and helps shoppers to purchase cheaper food. The closer the expiration date, the lower the price. Food often spoils on supermarket shelves as customers prefer items with later expiry dates. BuyMeBy’s alternative discount food as its due date approaches could significantly reduce waste by providing an incentive to purchase. Shoppers are able check out discounted prices with their BuyMeBy app on their smartphone or through the BuyMeBy website which shows them how close the food is to expiring, the discounted price, whether the food is still available and whether it can be reserved, and even if the food can be delivered to them. If shoppers don’t buy the products before their expiration dates, BuyMeBy sends out alerts to food banks, which can accept expired food. Meanwhile as BuyMeBy focuses on expiring food, another enterprise is focusing on fruits and vegetables that are just plain ugly. Launched in 2014, Kromkommer is a word play of the words crooked and cucumber in Dutch, and the first soup line that battles food wastage by blending irregular shaped but otherwise perfect vegetables into soups. The soups are packed with cute cartoon versions of the misshapen veggies, each telling a bit of the story of food wastage such as a carrot soup package calls itself the best soup from the craziest vegetables, and says, You can save 160 grams of our friends. The concept for Kromkommer began in 2012 with a realisation that about 40% of the fresh produce is thrown out, as some of it isn’t considered perfect enough to leave the farm. For some crops, as much as 30% of the harvest doesn’t make the mark and while some of it goes into food processing such as ketchups, much of it is wasted. It is estimated that in the Netherlands alone around 2bn of food waste occurs between harvest and the supermarket. Similar initiatives aimed at ending discrimination against misshapen fruits and vegetables and tackling food wastage are being rolled by retailers and other start-ups both at home and abroad. At home, Woolworths ‘Odd Bunch’ fresh produce range and Harris Farm Markets’ ‘Imperfect Picks’ are part of a worldwide trend started by French chain Intermache ‘Inglorious’ initiative launched in mid-2014. The imperfect produce at Intermache was priced at a 30% discount and was an instant success attracting a lot of global attention. The line was also immediately sold out. Five other French chains launched similar campaigns, along with others across Europe and Canada. Woolworths has revealed that they throw away 25% of their edible produce due to visual imperfections or domestic damage annually. Every year, Australians waste about A$10bn worth of food. This includes including A$2.67bn worth of fresh produce every year, according to FoodWise. While these programs have been successful in reducing the amount of produce that is discarded, charging lower for misshapen fruit and vegetables undervalues the of labour and other inputs is required to produce and harvest crops, which is the same regardless of their appearance. Ironically this helps to perpetuate a culture that undervalues food where people could buy higher quantities of cheaper produce and throw it away anyway. Kromkommer hopes to change this mindset. The project aims to change perceptions that appearance of fruit and vegetables is an indicator of their taste and quality and in doing so, reduce the amount of unnecessary food waste.

11.01.2022 It was fantastic doing the Redcord Active certification on the weekend. Such a beneficial system - and my clients are loving it already! Thanks to Kylie Dean of Purely Pilates for hosting the weekend and to Redcord Trainer and Melbourne-based physio Andrew Hoare, PhysioTrain.

06.01.2022 Hi. I'm Kim Whisson and Strong for Life Pilates is based in Toowoomba. I have been a fitness instructor for more than 20 years and a Pilates instructor for more than 15 years and in that time I have taught all fitness levels and age ranges. However, I particularly enjoy helping people who are struggling to make exercise a part of their life - whether that is due to injury, age or any other reason. My studio is small-scale and a friendly environment. If the gym scene or larger Pilates studios are not what you are looking for then why not give my studio a go?