Simplify Your Life – 10 Tips
Simplify Your Life – 10 Tips Stress, as you’re no doubt aware, has a major impact on your health. In fact, it’s so important to balance stress that it would be considered more important than balancing blood sugar, sleep cycles and even the digestive...
The Most Important Exercise For Back Pain
The Most Important Exercise For Back Pain The most important exercise for back pain is the horse stance exercise. Why? It stimulates the very important stabilising muscles that can become inhibited (shut off) when you are in pain and helps to condition them...
Big Mistake #3
Not Knowing How To Relax As part of the assessments we do at Movement Lifestyle we look in detail at your diet and lifestyle habits. An important part of the assessment is the diary and in particular the part that looks at how much relaxation you get. Very often this...
#1 Foam Roller Mistake
#1 Foam Roller Mistake The BIG mistake I see people making all the time, including some professionals, is extending from the lower back instead of the upper back when they lay over the foam roller. Why is this hyper extension in the lower back a problem? 1. Poor...
Big Mistake #2
This week we’re looking at sabotage in the common mistakes series: Sabotaging Your Own Programme In the health and fitness industry there is a very poor statistic for goal achievement and people reaching their desired end result. Only 5% of people who set a goal to do...
Desk Posture Fix
Desk Posture Fix The prone cobra is the exercise I prescribe the most often for slumped, rounded shoulders. It activates the muscles that are perhaps weak and deconditioned in you – the mid traps, rhomboids, posterior delts, thoracic erectors. Learn how to do it...
Big Mistake #1
Over the next few weeks I’m going to share what I feel are some of the common mistakes people make time and time again when they are looking for a significant upshift in the health and wellbeing. This week: Making Biomechanics Your Focus Having worked with over 250...
Hip Extension (Feet On Ball)
Hip Extension (Feet On Ball) This exercise works the hamstrings, glutes and lower back whilst integrating the core stabiliser muscles. It’s common to find people tight at the knee end of the hamstring but weak at the hip and this exercise addresses that...
Wall Lean
Wall Lean With the use of mobile devices, seated work places and poorly designed programmes, forward head posture becomes a real problem. It can contribute to many problems from balance and degenerative changes in to the neck through to headaches and jaw joint...
Is It Better To Eat Raw or Cooked Veg?
Good question and one which I was recently asked. “Is it better to eat raw or cooked veg?” At first glance you’d have to say raw vegetables are better. Why? Because they haven’t been cooked the enzymes remain intact as they should be. Heating them to high...