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Few shoulder problems come with as much hearsay as frozen shoulder. It freezes, it stays frozen and then it thaws, which can take a while, and the advice is often little more than patience. The trouble is that the hearsay is not the best advice. Researchers who looked at whether...
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“Shoulders back, chest up.” It may be the most common cue we use, and of course, it’s coming from a place of wanting to ensure safety through good technique. We say it because a tall, open posture looks strong, and because someone once said it to us. The trouble is...
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Eighty per cent. That’s the share of UK secondary schools still putting fitness testing into the PE curriculum, from a survey of 260 of them across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. What’s even more interesting is that sixty-two per cent of those PE teachers either agreed that fitness testing...
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Take the stairs. Although it’s one of the most repeated pieces of health and activity advice, it’s also one of the most underrated, perhaps because its benefits aren’t always immediately obvious. Nobody really believes sixty seconds of anything is going to make any difference whatsoever. But, some recent research using...
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Whatever you charge an hour, you probably arrived at it by rounding up from what the last trainer in your gym was charging, or by picking a number that felt defensible when a client asked. That is how almost everybody in this industry sets their price, because there is nothing...
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Most Pilates instructors learn the same thing, and that’s avoid flexion for anyone with low bone density. That usually means no Roll Down, Roll Up or Rolling Like a Ball. The rule is often presented as fact. Its main source is a 1984 study of 59 women. Only nine were...
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A client books a 7pm Tuesday session. She comes twice, cancels the next four and stops replying. Hmmmmm…something is up. The story we may tell ourselves is that she lost interest. Another possible reason is that the gym at seven o’clock on a Tuesday evening is unbearable. The music, the...
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5.4 million people in the UK have osteoarthritis in at least one knee. That figure comes from Arthritis UK, the charity formerly known as Versus Arthritis, in its State of Musculoskeletal Health 2025. The same report puts the median age at which symptoms begin at around fifty-five. Not eighty-five. Fifty-five,...
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A great group exercise class delivers far more than a workout. There is the exercise itself, of course. But there is also the energy of the room, the instructor who knows your name, the people you expect to see each week, the shared effort of getting through the difficult part...
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Few beliefs in fitness are held as firmly as the idea that a tight muscle is a short muscle. It follows so neatly. The muscle is short, so you pull on it, and over time it gets longer. Every hamstring stretch anybody has ever been given rests on that one...
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