Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024… and the beginning of the fifth year I have been writing these blogs, and the fifth year some of you have been reading them and I am already wondering, maybe like you, what changes have you made from reading them and if you haven’t quite reached that point of making changes, whether this year…
Remember at the start of December when I said that sometimes you might wake up in the morning and moving might trigger you to hurt a bit, but then moving was the exact solution to that pain? What an oxymoron that is! Let me explain. Sleeping is a period of resting and repair for your body, and you wake up…
Your body is a miracle of biomechanical evolution. It has 206 bones and over 600 muscles! Six… HUNDRED… muscles. Wow. Think about how much your body has had to go through to become the wonderful human you are, and you deserve to be as happy and healthy as possible. One of the quickest ways to be healthy, other than nutrition,…
Your body wants to move. You have a deep psychological and physiological need to move. If you are able to move your body in any way at all, then you absolutely should. Not everyone enjoys exercising or going to the gym to do said exercise, and that is ok. You do not need to go to the gym to have…
Did you ever wake up one morning and have a crick in your neck? Or a pain in your back between your should blades? Maybe you are slow to get out of bed because more things hurt first thing in the morning before you have gotten warmed up and moving. Or are you one of the people whose feet are…
Did you know that you need 5 to 15 minutes of sunlight a day in the summertime to enjoy the boosting benefits of vitamin D? The sun needs to penetrate your skin, and the amount of skin needed is just that of your face, hands, and arms. Which can be a little tricky during the winter when we are cossetted…
Still not sure where to get started with movement snacks or full workouts? Don’t think you have the time to do the workout, let alone plan what it is you’d like to do? Then it might be time to find a personal trainer. You make a regular appointment with someone who is happy to put you through your paces and…
Movement snacks can be beneficial to those who make time for big workouts and get all the things they want with them. I use movement snacks all the time, even when I have completed a workout that day. Where they come in handy for me is, that it can help undo tightness or achiness in a muscle or joint because…
Who got inspired by Arnold Scwarzenegger last week? Don’t know what I am talking about? Head over to www.astralfitness.co.uk and take a look at last weeks blog, then pop back here and continue reading. ‘If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results’. – Arnold Scwarzenegger Now he may be referring to…
Not having time to move is not really an excuse. Arnold Schwarzenegger has famously said many things about making excuses, rather than time, to exercise. A recent one that chimed with me was posted on X on the 29th of August 2023 and it said; ‘Everybody has time to train. If you think you don’t, do me a favor [sic]:…