If you are looking for a simple and affordable online solution to manage clients bookings see bookd.com. No, I don’t work for them, I just like their product as it looks professional and is easy to use. Continue reading…
My Oxfam trailwalking husband is up for his fourth event and after years of discussing knees with his team mates, we pulled this together, he the editor and wordsmith, and me the knowhow.
How do you know if your knees are up for the challenge of walking 100km? Ask yourself:
- Do you have knee pain during or after your training walks?
- Is it under the kneecap, on the inside of the knee or at the base?
- Do you get aches in lower back or pain in the ‘glutes’ after training walks?
- How stiff are you knees the day after? Painfully stiff or ‘just worked’ stiff?
If you answered ‘yes’ to one or more of these questions, you’ll need to protect your knees by preparing them properly for Trailwalker. Anybody can walk the last few kilometers to the finish line with a sore knee, but if your knees start acting up at the 30km mark, you’re going to have a most unpleasant time.
Found this useful article and wanted to share it. One of the most useful ones I’ve read on the matter because it goes beyond telling you what’s going on to telling you how to address it. .
Searching ‘gluteus medius’ on Pubmed I found these three abstracts that can add to the picture. Continue reading…
Three sessions of Gyrotonics and two sessions of Gyrokinesis later I am HOOKED and RELAXED and FASCIALLY ENLIVENED! Oh boy, I am pretty sure I felt my intercostals release individually, and thank me for the effort yesterday! Serratus posterior inferior and I have been at odds for a while but yesterday he yielded too. Continue reading…
How many of your clients have Osteoporosis, that you actually know about anyway? One statistic is 40%, another I read today at Pilates Pro is 55% of clients over 50 years. We need to all be familiar with the modifications advised for Osteoporotic clients. Lateral flexion, flexion and spinal rotation may all be contraindicated, so be aware. Continue reading…
We all struggle to keep up our CEC’s at times, so to help you along you will find all the workshops I know of listed in our Events Calendar, so take your pick. Get all the details here and let me know if yours isn’t listed. Continue reading…
If I had a gold coin for every cue I gave today teaching at the studio, well, I’d be able to buy me a row three ticket to Chicago (again). Eric Franklin is full of them and we all have our own set we draw upon. Continue reading…
Benefits in using Franklin balls: release tight muscles, increase sensation in muscles, benefit blood supply and elasticity of muscles, make you feel good too. When you use these balls to release specific muscles it’s good to know you are having a more generalised effect across all the other muscles linking around it. Sheets of connective tissue travel around and through our muscles so when you release one particular spot, it is flowing on through the connective sheets or fascia to benefit other muscles around it. This encourages blood supply, relaxation of the body and assists the flow of information between muscle groups.
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