With health, fitness and pretty much all things exercise becoming so trendy and popular in the past couple of years, exercise and movement can seem very confused. There are loads of examples of different exercises on various social media platforms and there sometimes seems so…
Warming up…do you stretch or don’t you? Is it safe to stretch or could it cause injury? It is very difficult to prove whether stretching prevents injury because there are so many contributing factors; it is impossible to replicate the same experiments in the same…
Often when I enter a gym and watch some sessions there is always one trainer that has decided to brand themself as “functional”. As we all know, the squat is not functional unless you’re balancing on something…. wink wink. Training a client is not supposed…
I think we can all agree that core stability has become one of the most confusing misunderstood components of runners’ conditioning. Ask 10 different runners what they do for their “core stability” and you’ll get 10 different answers that encompass all the latest fads, gizmos…
Recently I found myself in a meeting with colleagues discussing blog ideas for our personal training clients. One of the points that was raised was the title of the blog. Now for anyone that has read any of my blogs previously, you will know I…