Physiotherapist & Pilates Instructor, Gemma, recently attended a specialist yoga course for Physiotherapists. On this blog she gives a great overview of yoga and also highlights how it compares to Pilates. Yoga combines movement, meditation and awareness of breathing through a sequence of exercises. This has many positive effects on the body from improving flexibility …
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Physio Gemma, recently attended a specialist course to train in using yoga techniques as part of physiotherapy treatment. She has started integrating some yoga principles into some of her treatment programmes and her patients are benefitting greatly. Mrs A kindly agreed for Gemma to share her success story with you. Mrs A came to see …
This week is Self Care Week. Self Care Week is an annual national awareness week that focuses on establishing support for self care across communities, families and generations. More needs to be done to support people to better look after their own health. Empowering individuals to self care has many benefits for their short term …
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National Fitness Day is the biggest and most visible annual celebration of physical activity. It aims to try and help overcome the challenge of being fit
Research recently undertaken by UK Active has revealed that 9 out of 10 parents blame technology for youth inactivity. Here are some worrying facts.
The trail took us all over Southampton and we clocked up over 11,000 steps! What a great way to get active, entertain the kids and discover Southampton! The app (on the right) can link to your smartphone activity monitor to track exactly how many steps you do searching for the Zebras – so if you’re aiming to reach the governments 10,000 steps a day target, it’ll certainly tick that box!
A bike is a great investment and with the right tlc, can last many years. The Bike Week website has written their top 10 bike maintenance tips Here’s their tips
Learning to ride a bike is a huge childhood milestone. By the time we were on our third child, we’d nailed it! But teaching our first and second were quite a challenge at times. Given that this week is Bike Week, I thought I’d share my own tips and this great little video, which certainly echoes my positive experience teaching my third child to ride a bike.
