In this post I answer the top 10 most frequently asked questions about injury rehab. 1) How long will this take? This is the question that everybody asks and which nobody can honestly answer precisely. There are known healing times for different structures of the body; bones, ligaments, tendons and muscles for example. However most […]
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Why online exercise injuries are booming and how to avoid them.
In this post we look at why online exercise injuries are booming and what you can do to avoid them. According to research by Sport for England, 25% of the U.K. population are now using online exercise services. That compares to only 15% who use a gym regularly. Awesome. Not so awesome is that Bupa […]
How to train for the sport of life.
In this post we discuss how to train for the sport of life and why just being active isn’t enough. The majority of the people I work with play sport. Most have sought assistance to either recover from ongoing injury, or improve their sports performance with resistance training. There are however a group of people […]
Resistance training will change your life, here’s how I know.
In this post I discuss why resistance training will change your life and how I came to this conclusion midway through my career. I left university following an exercise science degree and kind of fell into personal training. I’d come from a cycle racing background, back when it was quite unusual to see a grown […]
Why subtalar joint motion is critical to walking and running and how to improve it.
In this post we discuss why subtalar joint motion is critical to walking and running and look at two exercises to help you improve it. In an integrated system, the performance of the whole is only as good as the function of its individual parts. Whilst some exercise and rehab programmes will assess motion at […]