When we are children, we don’t think about the need to exercise, we just do it. We are naturally motivated to do it and we call it play or ‘having an adventure’. As we get older, we are so busy moving from one obligation, job or task to another it's easy to forget the value of movement that...
As we grow, we experience age-related loss of muscle mass and strength, this is called sarcopenia. The loss can be accelerated by modern sedentary lifestyles. The outcome can rob us of quality of life in our later years. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t minimise the decline, in some...
Social media is full of exercise clickbait enticing you to ‘get fit fast’ with a magic pill, the latest craze or ‘breakthrough exercise’. They rarely work and leave us blaming ourselves for being ‘lazy’ and throwing money out the window. Its not your fault, you’ve been sold an empty promise...
Squats are one of the most effective exercises for strengthening the lower body. However, one question that often arises when performing squats is how low should we go? In other words, what is the proper depth for a squat? The answer is that it depends on a few factors, including your...
Do sit ups make your lower back pain worse but you’ve been told to strengthen your core? Modern life revolves around sitting for longer and can make our core weaker, give us poor posture and put unnecessary strain on the spine stressing our lower back. A strong core helps maintain good...
Are you over 40 and feel like every day movements are getting harder? Perhaps getting up off the floor is more difficult, or you look at a flight of stairs and think ‘Nope, I’m taking the escalator?’ You’re not alone, this process happens to all of us and it's not all bad news. As we age,...
What is Plyometrics? Plyometric exercises are dynamic or explosive in nature and take advantage of the stretch shortening cycle (SSC) which is the storage of elastic energy and challenges your fast twitch fibres. Basically it’s any type of explosive movement which usually propels you off the...