Have you ever noticed what your shoulders are doing when you’re stressed? There’s a good chance they’re somewhere halfway towards your ears. We tend to think about stress as something that happens in our heads. Work is busy, there’s too much to do, we’re worrying about family or money, we aren’t sleeping properly, and somehow the to do list just…
Neck pain is one of those things that can creep up on you. You might notice you’re turning your whole body to reverse the car instead of just looking over your shoulder, or perhaps you keep waking up with a stiff neck and wondering what on earth you did in your sleep. Sometimes there’s an obvious reason. You’ve spent hours…
What If You’re Starting Later?: Ageing With Resilience Perhaps you’ve read the previous blogs in this series and thought, I wish I’d done all of this years ago. Maybe you’re in your 60s or 70s and exercise has never really been part of your life. Perhaps you’ve spent decades working, raising a family and looking after everybody except yourself. Your…
Build the Body You’ll Want Later: Ageing With Resilience When you’re 25, being 65 feels an extraordinarily long way away. You probably aren’t thinking about whether you’ll be able to get up from the floor easily, carry your own suitcase, maintain strong bones or confidently walk for miles on holiday. But perhaps we should think about these things a little…
Eating for the Body You Want to Keep: Ageing With Resilience When we talk about nutrition, the conversation has a habit of drifting towards weight. Eat this to lose weight. Avoid that because it is fattening. Count this, restrict that, cut something else out altogether. But as we get older, perhaps we need to start asking a different question: What…
Men, Strength and Staying Capable for Life: Ageing With Resilience There is a particular trap that men can fall into as they get older. You spend decades being reasonably strong without having to think too much about it. You carry things, lift things, do the gardening, move furniture, play sport, work physical jobs and generally expect your body to do…
Why Getting Older Doesn’t Have to Mean Getting Weaker: Ageing With Resilience There is a strange message we seem to absorb as we get older. A sore knee appears and we blame our age. We feel stiffer getting out of bed and decide this must simply be what happens now. We notice that recovery takes a little longer than it…
From Desk Chair to Strong Legs: Building Hips That Stay Pain Free If you’ve spent years sitting at a desk, chances are you’ve been told your hips are tight. You’ve probably stretched them, rolled them on a foam roller, maybe even booked the odd sports massage when they became particularly uncomfortable. All of those things can help, but they only…
Why Stretching Alone Isn’t Fixing Your Tight Hips If you’ve been faithfully stretching your hips every evening, holding each stretch for 30 seconds, following YouTube videos and wondering why they still feel tight the next morning, you’re certainly not alone. It’s one of the most common frustrations I hear from clients. The surprising truth is that tight muscles are not…
Five Simple Exercises That Wake-Up Sleeping Hips If you spend most of your day sitting, there’s a good chance your hips have become a little lazy. That might sound odd because they often feel tight, sore or stiff. Surely they’re working too hard? Not necessarily Many people assume tight hips need stretching, but in reality, they often need waking up.…