Summer Fitness Club at Eastwood Richmonde Hotel
It’s time to bask in the sun and strut your stuff. Prepare for the swimsuit season and get fit this summer with Eastwood Richmonde Hotel’s Summer Fitness Club.
Enrollees get to enjoy unlimited use of the Fitness Center Mondays to Fridays, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Fitness Center has a spacious gym overlooking the [...]
Weight loss through heat or cold therapy? You choose
February 22, 2011 by kikaygurl
Filed under Fitness, Weight Loss
It’s summer and you want to look good in your bikini. There are a number of non-invasive treatments you can avail of that are safe and do not require you to go under the knife. To my observation, slimming treatments use either heat or cold to jumpstart the body’s metabolism and therefore, burn fat more [...]
Plantation Bay’s Mogambo Springs introduces the Sports Massage
February 22, 2011 by kikaygurl
Filed under Pain Relief
Mogambo Springs in Plantation Bay Resort, one of the best spas in the island of Mactan Cebu, adds another premium treatment to its menu of services, the sports massage. According to spa manager Colleen Barcelona, Mogambo Springs is the only resort in the country that offers this unique treatment. Zen Lee, a trained Singaporean therapist, helped [...]
Deoxidation therapy at Zenyu escopa Spa
February 22, 2011 by kikaygurl
Filed under Fitness, Pain Relief
Zenyu ecospa is the first and only spa to employ the process of deoxidation or the use of negative ions in the Philippines. Deoxidation therapy, or the use of antioxidants, is known to improve blood circulation, strengthen the immune system, improve metabolism and blood pressure, reduce cholesterol and body toxins, and relieve allergies, colds, and [...]
Back pain and cough? Try the ventosa massage
January 1, 2011 by kikaygurl
Filed under Pain Relief
Happy New Year! I just got back from a Baguio holiday and believe me it was cold high up in the mountains. To some who have lived abroad, 12 degrees Celsius is just a walk in the park but to me, sensitive as I am to cold weather, it was okay — bearable. However, due to [...]
Discovery Suites Balance Lifestyle Fitness Club
While most gyms provide a standardized system of exercise modalities, Balance Lifestyle Fitness Club offers a holistic approach to fitness. Located at the fourth floor of Discovery Suites in Ortigas Center, Pasig City, this modern fitness haven offers personalized training to address a person’s specific needs.
Balance Lifestyle Fitness Club designs programs with the member’s personal [...]
Kettleball is the new fitness craze
December 10, 2010 by kikaygurl
Filed under Equipment, Fitness, Weight Loss
You wouldn’t think something as simple as swinging an iron ball could have so much effect in terms of toning and strengtening your body but it actually does. Kettleball enthusiasts say that its not the quantity of the movement, but the quality that brings out the benefits of the kettleball. The basic movements, such as [...]
barre3 hits Manila
December 4, 2010 by kikaygurl
Filed under Fitness, Weight Loss
There is a new fitness workout that is fast gaining popularity among fitness enthusiasts. barre3 is a 60-minute body-shaping workout that helps you develop the lean, limber frame of a ballet dancer and the strength of an athlete through a combination of ballet barre, yoga and Pilates exercises.
Developed by fitness veteran, Sadie Lincoln, a native [...]
Tiger Balm for pain relief
December 2, 2010 by kikaygurl
Filed under Pain Relief
Over a hundred years ago in China, an old court herbalist by the name of Aw Chu Kin formulated a special ointment to relieve and soothe the body aches and muscle pain of its imperial users.
After taking his leave from the royal palace to start anew in a place called Burma, Aw Chu Kin further [...]
Arnis at the 2010 SM Megamall Gun Show
Its touted as the last gun show for the year 2010 so naturally, people flocked to Megatrade Hall 2 of SM Megamall that weekend and caused snarled traffic along Edsa Ortigas.
The Gun Show, slated from Nov 12-16, 2010, was my first since all I ever went to are auto shows. From what I saw and [...]
