Training

If a gym machine is causing pain, we discuss what 3 things to check and when to abandon a machine altogether. Every now and again I get the chance to leave my gym and train at someone else’s. There’s usually a good reason for this and 9 times out of 10 it’s to try a […]

In this post we discuss why strong muscles don’t reduce the forces at your joints and why that’s good news if you suffer with joint pain. There’s a common misconception that strong muscles reduce joint pain by limiting the forces acting on them. You’ll see this is in the media and on both personal training […]

In this post, we discuss whether you should train through pain and what markers to look out for to make the best decision. Think back to a time when you’ve exercised really hard. Perhaps it was on a run, or in the gym during a particularly difficult exercise class. You were no doubt breathing heavily […]

In this post, we use two real-world examples to discuss how exercise can be both the cure and the cause of pain. Exercise is universally promoted as medicine — but the same prescription that heals can also cause issues. The difference doesn’t always reside in the exercise itself. Two recent real-world examples illustrate how dose […]

In this post, we discuss why the same exercise can produce a different result when the intention is clear. People that work with me sometimes remark that the exercises we use aren’t too different from the ones they’ve tried in the past with little success. Two exercises can look remarkably similar from the outside, yet […]