Life: Does My Bum Look Big Enough in This? (Are my Glutes strong, functional and fit for purpose?)

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Strong, functional Glutes? What’s This Bum Deal Then? Our bottom is so so so much more than an aesthetic item to be viewed, pondered, berated, idolised. There was a time when women were fed the line that cellulite was the baddie and thus war was declared. Now it is shape.  We are condemned, it would […]

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AB-DOMINANCE: Why are we so ab-sessed with the Abdominals?

 Ab-dominant and Ab-sessed Society is seemingly obsessed by the body beautiful and the aesthetic of the flat stomach.    As a 52 year old post menopausal woman, it is not something that I  lose sleep over (although I have bloating/IBS  issues which I wrote about in a previous blog post which you can read here.)  […]

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Blade Runner 2019: Five Things You Really Need To Know About Your Shoulder

Picture of the deep and superficial muscles at the front of the chest and shoulders

What Is the Shoulder & Come to think of it, Where is it? The shoulder is, in some ways a rather vague term.  What we have is an upper arm bone and a shoulder blade.  Also in the mix, but not actually the shoulder is the collar bone and the rib cage. Without them there […]

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50 Shades of Shoulders

10,000 Steps for the Legs, what about the Shoulders? Over Christmas and the New Year Period I went on holiday to Morocco, and you know how it is when you go away, especially in a foreign country, you walk, and walk, and walk. Whilst trip trapping around Marrakech, often lost,  I got to thinking: What […]

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