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…
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,…