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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Many of us have a client who has started moving differently. They take the stairs one at a time now. They reach for the back of a chair before they sit down. Somewhere in the warm-up chat they mention a bit of a stumble in the kitchen last month, and…
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Few moments in a client’s life involve as much physical change, and as much uncertainty about what to do next, as the months after having a baby. New mums arrive nervous and with many, many questions about the changes in their body. Is it safe to lift again? What about…
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Most of us have worked with a client who was having a hard time with their mental health. The low energy, the missed sessions, the days when they were just not themselves, whatever we tried with the programme. For many, the advice was to speak to their GP, who might…
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