Are you just not sick and tired of someone telling you that you need to drink more water? Why should you have to drink such a tasteless boring and non-enjoyable liquid? Who wants to eat a meal or have a snack with a glass of water?  I am sure you can think of a dozen

Imagine that you are a young athlete playing the sport you love and a severe injury occurs. What do you do? The obvious answer would be to go to the medical tent or medical crew.  If pigs could fly that would be quite fantastic too but in the real world of sport very few schools

Before we get going, understand two important words. Confidence, according to the Oxford Dictionary is the “feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something” and arrogance, as “having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities” In essence, what the dictionary is saying is if

I recently attended the 5th Annual Innovation Summit hosted in Bryanston Johannesburg. The event happens once a year where you can find incredible minds in fields from neuroscience to leadership, business and marketing to innovation in the digital age to name a few. In attending this summit my mission was to look for fresh new

I RECENTLY attended the Engen Under-17 football knockout cup where I saw some of South Africa’s most talented and up and coming stars. 15 September 2012 | Sean van Staden |Sports Columnist for the Citizen newspaper There were two things that were quite evident in the tournament. First being the poor state of the referees

It has been an interesting past two weeks where I attended the eighth Annual Discovery Wellness and Fitness Convention. 31 August 2012 | SEAN VAN STADEN |Sports Columnists Year on year they seem to be stepping up their game and providing quality talks from leading professionals in different varieties of respected fields. One of the

A bright future ahead in the football circuit for Marcus Retief, but little did he know life had a different sport in mind.  

Are you the typical person who is running around like a headless chicken due to life’s pressures? Where do you find the time to still squeeze in a gym session? 11 November 2011 | SEAN VAN STADEN | SPORTS COLUMNIST 

We live in exciting times where mankind continues to break world records, and teams are achieving new heights!  SEAN VAN STADEN | SPORTS COLUMNIST 

Having great core stability will not only improve your endurance but reduce the risk of injury tremendously at any age. 25 November 2011 | SEAN VAN STADEN | SPORTS COLUMNIST

“Atkins diet”, this “21 day challenge” that, you decide to join the “no carb diet”. Wait, the muscle-heads only want to go on the “mega grow mass 3 000 protein diet”. 27 January 2012 | SEAN VAN STADEN | SPORTS COLUMNIST

What does it take to be a Jake White, a Gavin Hunt or a Patrick Fick? 28 October 2011 | SEAN VAN STADEN | SPORTS COLUMNIST

Arguably the world’s greatest golfer Tiger Woods, who earned $90,5-million in 2010, has dropped down to position No 55 on the official world rankings. 28 October 2011 | SEAN VAN STADEN | SPORTS COLUMNIST

Imagine having the strength and power of Hercules, a rippling Spartan six-pack that would make the grand canyon look like a backyard hill. 14 October 2011 | SEAN VAN STADEN | SPORTS COLUMNIST

You either know someone who is currently injured, or you are lying on the couch with your feet up, eating chips and drinking soda because you are depressed … you have twisted your knee. 10 February 2012 | SEAN VAN STADEN