Now feel free to correct me if anything I write here is wrong as I am certainly no expert on the subject of mindfulness!   The way I understand mindfulness is that it is about being in the present moment and your thoughts and feelings are toward exactly what it happening to you at that moment […]

  Continuing to eat when you are already full is pretty much guaranteeing fat storage. If your body has received sufficient nutrients to fulfil its needs then any additional energy that continues to enter your body will be deposited into your fat cells. This was a great little survival system for back in the day when food was scarce. On […]

  I dont know about you but I am not a big fan of the bootcamp style approach to dieting. I have tried it myself many times over the years and although some of those attempts have successfully got me into the best shape of my life, within a month of achieving this I was always back to where […]

I have had tight hamstrings and glutes ever since I can remember. This has resulted in a lot of discomfort when Im doing, well, everything!! I love to deadlift. Picking heavy s**t off the floor feels good for some reason. However, I always suffer for a few days after. Over the years I have tried yoga, physio, […]

There are three types of joint. They are classified according to their degree of movement. Fibrous joints are immovable with interlocking bones, e.g the plates in the skull. Cartilaginous joints are slightly moveable bones connected by ligaments, e.g the vertebrae Synovial joints are freely moveable. They are the most common type of joint found in […]

The diagram below shows the difference between normal (neutral) posture and some common postural abnormalities. Neutral (normal) – The term that describes a posture that has four natural curves of the spine present and in good alignment. Therefore, decreasing stress on passive structures of the body, such as the vertebrae and ligaments. Lordosis – A spinal deviation […]

The spine is formed from 33 irregular bones. Each region of the spine has a different number of bones. Bones of the spine You can see from the diagram that the spine has four natural curves: two convex (thoracic and sacral) and two concave (lumbar and cervical). Now assess you understanding of this via the […]

Fartlek is a Swedish term meaning ‘speed play’ and that is precisely what is done in this type of training – play around with the speed of training! It is an unstructured form of interval training where work is performed continuously for a specific duration, but instead of working at a single intensity, as in […]

In negative / eccentric training, the concentric phase of an exercise is all but removed and all the effort is applied to the eccentric portion of the movement. Potentially this means the client can be exposed to supramaximal loads in excess of their normal repetition maximum. Examples of negative reps include leg extensions where the […]