I am a Pilates Instructor. I don’t Cue the Core. All Pilates Instructors cue the core don’t they? Not just Pilates Instructors either. Also it is teachers in aqua aerobics, dance aerobics, HiiT (high intensity interval training) , Strength and Conditioning classes, Bootcamp, Spin classes. I have encountered people who cue the core for when […]
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Not Running Up That Hill. Losing a regular exercise habit & how to regain it
Regular Exercise Habits: How do we form them and how do we sustain them? After years of the regular exercise habit of weekly running I have stopped. The regular exercise habit just fell away. It was not as “baked in” to my week. Why did I keep going for over 10 years only to trip, […]
Continue ReadingNot Running Up That Hill. Losing a regular exercise habit & how to regain itBest Abdominal Exercises. Discover what the abs are really for, to understand which are the most effective exercises
Before considering best abdominal exercises we must ask: Why Work the Abs? By that I mean, in an exercise class or at the gym. Why work out the abdominal muscles using the best abdominal exercises, or, as is often the case, the most trendy exercises? (I am using the word Abdominal and Ab somewhat interchangeably […]
Continue ReadingBest Abdominal Exercises. Discover what the abs are really for, to understand which are the most effective exercisesTwelve Different Things to help my pelvic floor
How can I help my Pelvic floor? It isn’t as efficient as it used to be. Just squeezing doesn’t seem to work I have the occasional accident, running is problematic, I prefer to know where the next toilet will be located. It is a very familiar story and it has a knack of bothering us on […]
Continue ReadingTwelve Different Things to help my pelvic floorCouch to 5k: Panacea for Inactivity or Road to Nowhere?
What is Couch to 5K? It is the name of a phenomenally successful NHS app, designed to get people from no activity at all, so, sitting on the couch, to running for a distance of five kilometres One thinks of people as sitting on a sofa or chair and being on a couch when in […]
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