Tag Archives: health

Cupping Therapy on the Gold Coast

04/12/2021healthBundall, Cupping Therapy, Gold Coast, healthSWAN FITNESS

I have some acupuncture, moxibustion and remedial massage as my body maintenance 3-4 times a month.
This time I experienced cupping therapy for the first time on the Gold Coast.

Cupping Therapy at KF Myotherapy & Sports Dry needling
with Dr. Keisuke Fujii

Actually I used to get cupping therapy a lot in Japan, and it was one of my favourite treatments.
So I’m so happy to have it here on the Gold Coast again. How long has it been…?

The cupping effects are detox, blood circulation promotion, relief of muscle pain,easing of cold sensitivity and swelling etc.

If the blood circulation is poor, then a purple mark will remain like the image below. It lasts about for 1 week to disappear.
If you have the therapy frequently, then the mark will turn pink and won’t remain as long.

My back sucked by a cup
It looks like an alien.

My back from another angle
Dr. Keisuke said it looked like a fig

Some people say they feel good when they are being sucked on their bodies, but I think I feel great right at the moment when the cups are taken off.

Just an aside, but I always explain to my ZUMBA members that my purple marks are not due to my husband’s DV as a joke before my lessons.

Even though the dark purple marks remain on my skin, the improvement of my body performance is beyond description.

I can gain confidence that I could do a great lesson after the treatment.

I think I want to have another cupping treatment on the back of my neck.

Yay! Our ZUMBA lesson reopening!!

04/07/2020Weight loss, ZUMBAGold Coast, health, Southport, SWAN FITNESS, Weight loss, ZUMBASWAN FITNESS

日本語ページ → 祝・ZUMBA® 再開!!

Because of the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, we restarted our ZUMBA lesson at Southport Community Centre today, Saturday the 4^th of July 2020!

Finally!!

The lesson was successful. Thank you to all our members.

Just as I thought, it’s gotta be a face-to-face lesson with a nice floor and sound system.

There are some new rules.

17 people including instructors are acceptable.

So bookings are needed for the lessons.

Please come before 9 am because we have to register at the entrance.

The entrance door is always closed and can only be opened from inside, that means, we have to stand in front of the door to open it from inside for each participant and let them in.

After the lesson starts, no one will stand at the door, so please be punctual. We can’t stop the music to let them in.
We also have to keep a distance standing on the cross tape marking on the floor like the photo.

The room in the photo and the video is PA1, not usual room PA2.

It changed from PA2 to PA1 only today because it had not been set up for social distancing. Please come to PA2 from the 11^th of July 2020.

We are sorry, but we won’t run Friday’s lessons this year.

Now we are taking advanced bookings for the 11th of July and following Saturdays.
Contact us to reserve your spot today!!

ZUMBA® with Mayumi at Southport Community Centre, Room PA2
6 Lawson St. Southport QLD 4215
Every Saturday 9:00-10:00 am
Reservations are necessary. → SWAN FITNESS

Online ZUMBA®

29/03/2020Step Lesson, Weight loss, ZUMBAExercise, health, SWAN FITNESS, Upper Coomera, Weight lossSWAN FITNESS

日本語ページ → オンラインZUMBA 始めました

We did our first online ZUMBA on Facebook yesterday, 28 March 2020.

This is an edited video of the live.

The upper photo was taken by one of the participants.

I recommend using a PC, not a mobile like in the photo, because the mobile screen is too small.

If you are interested, please contact me.

Connecting with me as a friend on Facebook is necessary to join the live ZUMBA. Because the live is limited access only for people I can choose in my Facebook friends.

Mayumi Swan ← Click this to move to my Facebook page.

Please send me a friend request with concurrently a message by Messenger to clear that it is not a prank.

You can also join our lesson directly at Swan Studio (Upper Coomera) which is outside and has enough space for 5 people even with social distance.

Reservation is necessary.

Lesson charges are as follows:

Casual: $15 ea / ¥1000 ea

10 pass tickets (valid for 6 months): $100 / ¥6600

Anyone who has a bank account in Australia or Japan can join the live ZUMBA.

Reservations

For those who already have the tickets:

Please book by 8 am (7 am in Japan) on the day you want to participate.

For those who make payment from now:

After your payment is confirmed, you can book for the lesson. It sometimes takes a few days.

I’m sorry, but no refunds.

I am running Step lessons and Boot Camps as well. The lesson charges are the same as ZUMBA.

The tickets can be used at all the Swan Studio lessons.

If you have a platform, you can join the live Step Lesson as well.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any further queries.

Don’t be beaten by coronavirus.

Let’s exercise to improve our immune system.

Don’t be beaten by coronavirus. We’ve started temporary lessons.

23/03/2020Boot Camp, Step Lesson, ZUMBAExercise, Gold Coast, health, Step, SWAN FITNESS, Weight loss, ZUMBASWAN FITNESS

日本語ページ → コロナに負けない！！レッスン臨時開講

Thanks for joining our last ZUMBA at Southport Community Centre, all our ZUMBA mates! ☺️

We cancelled all our lessons from this week due to coronavirus.

Instead we are going to open temporary ZUMBA lessons at Swan Studio (Upper Coomera) on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 9:30-10:30 am until the situation improves.

Lesson charge & 10 Pass tickets

We are running Step lesson and Boot Camp as well.

Prime Minister presented the following will be closed from midday on 23rd March.

1️⃣Registered and licenced clubs and licensed premises in hotels and pubs
2️⃣Entertainment venues and cinemas, casinos and nightclubs
3️⃣Restaurants and cafés will be restricted takeaway only
4️⃣Indoor sporting venues
5️⃣Places of worship
6️⃣Enclosed spaces for funerals will have to following 4 square metre rule

You might be worried about Swan Studio (4️⃣) , but our place is not an inside venue. We’re doing our lessons outside.

There is a limited number of participants to keep social distance.

Reservation is necessary.

If you are interested, please contact Mayumi (0448 012 933). I’m sorry, but I’m a little bit too busy to answer the phone so I really appreciate texts instead.

Let’s exercise to improve our immune system.

Dance and Fitness Centre on the Gold Coast

22/01/2020dance exercise, Hip Hop, Weight loss, ZUMBABroadbeach, Gold Coast, health, Mermaid BeachSWAN FITNESS

日本語ページ → ゴールドコーストのダンスフィットネスセンター

DFC- Dance and Fitness Centre will be newly opened in Broadbeach, the Gold Coast, on the 28^th of January 2020.

It’s close to Pacific Fair, about 350m south from the tram station at Broadbeach South Station, or about 60 m south from the bus stop at Peerless Avenue.

There’s a café next to it and some restaurants nearby.

This is the entrance.

Going up the stairs, there’s the reception and a lounge. Going down the hallway on the left hallway, there is a gym area.

The fitness centre has lots of fitness lessons fused with dances.

Sports clubs in Japan have a large selection of dance lessons and fitness lessons, but the sports clubs on the Gold Coast have only mainly fitness programs and dance lessons can hardly ever be found on their timetables.

I think that people on the Gold Coast may think dance lessons should be in dance schools and fitness lessons should be in sports clubs.

Basically the number of sports clubs which have studios is small on the Gold Coast and I cannot find any aerobics lessons and step lessons composed by choreography that are still popular in Japan.

Apparently the power of Les Mills Programs which originated in New Zealand seems to be strong here, so Body Attack may be the only kind of aerobics lessons.

In such situations, DFC- Dance and Fitness Centre is a unique sports facility.

The timetable is as follows:

My lessons are ZUMBA, STEP and HIP HOP.

My lesson atmosphere is like this.

Hip Hop is based on Hip Hop dance including fitness and you can enjoy simple choreography and train your body.

The first visit is FREE!!

Do you know sarcopenia?

27/08/2019health, Weight loss, ZUMBAExercise, Gold Coast, health, Weight lossSWAN FITNESS

(Japanese page → サルコペニアって何？）

Sarcopenia is a symptom associated with the ageing process and loss of muscle mass and strength.

The main reason for muscle wasting is a lack of physical activity.

It can happen when a disease or injury makes it difficult or impossible for you to move an arm or leg.

As a result, it also causes obesity, lots of lifestyle diseases and broken legs because of loss of balance.

Particularly leg muscles shrink 1% each year after 30 years of age if we don’t exercise.

Then we will lose 40% of the muscles in our 70th.

Sarcopenia Check

If you can’t stand up from a chair with one leg, you might have sarcopenia.

Check the video below.

Why don’t you exercise and get muscles to not become bedridden in your future?

ZUMBA®

The reason why cardio exercises make us happy

10/10/2018health, Weight loss, ZUMBAGold Coast, health, Mayumi Swan, SWAN FITNESS, Weight loss, ZUMBASWAN FITNESS

When people feel happy, β-endorphin, dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin are secreted in their brains.

β-endorphin activates brains, strengthens immune systems, prevents from various diseases and enhances memories.

Dopamine makes people feel pleasures.

Oxytocin enhances memories.

Serotonin gives us mental stabilization.

Making a habit of exercising is the best way, to always be secreting these pleasure substances in our brains.

For more information → ZUMBA®

On the other hand, stress substances which are cortisol and noradrenaline are secreted in our brains when we have negative feelings like anger, jealousy, fear and anxiety.

Cortisol is a fundamental hormone for living bodies. However, if it is secreted too much, hippocampus which plays a central role in our memory circuits, atrophies.

Noradrenaline is a substance which causes living bodies to fight or escape from enemies. To let them get ready for battle, it raises blood pressure, supplies blood all over the body and increases blood glucose levels, so that muscles are used immediately.

Noradrenaline is also a fundamental substance. But if it is secreted too much, there is a possibility that it will increase the risks of high-blood pressure, diabetes and brain haemorrhage etc. because it has the effect of raising blood sugar.

★★★7 benefits of cardio exercise★★★

1. Increased capillaries 30-50 times → good for skin, anti-aging
2. Stronger heart and lungs
3. Stimulated brain
4. Incresed bone density
5. Increased basal metabolism → weight loss
6. Promoted fat-burning → weight loss
7. Reduced stress / temporary relief from depression and anxiety

Our brains cannot change at once. By doing exercises constantly, we get to feel happiness gradually.

For more information → ZUMBA® STEP