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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Twenty-nine systematic reviews. Eight hundred and sixty-three separate trials. Twenty-four different treatments, all pointed at the same problem, which is the muscle ache about a day after a client does something their body has not done in a while. That’s a huge amount of evidence which the research team pulled…
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