Fitness and Training

It’s good understand that whatever sport or exercise you choose to engage in, there are specific areas of the body which will be placed under more stress or repetitive load and the injuries that may result as a consequence of this. Cross training – or exposing your body to several types of exercise – can improve performance for an athlete of any level.

When it comes to Clinical Exercise, there’s an abundance of moves and sequences that can be performed to sculpt your body and improve your core stability. Following the six core Clinical Exercise principles of concentration, control, centring, fluidity, precision and breath - there are a range of floor, ball and body weight exercises that are low-impact and safe to perform.

You might have seen people using them at the gym in the stretching area, or near the yoga mats at the sports store, and that’s because foam rollers are quickly becoming the weapon of choice when it comes to fighting muscle soreness and increasing your flexibility.

These little blocks of cylindrical, brightly coloured foam, are actually one of your greatest allies.

We’ve all had those stressful days, whether it was a bad day at the office, things around the home not going right, or just running late and being stuck in traffic. It’s ok, stress in life is completely normal!

Common symptoms of stress can include difficulty concentrating, feeling lethargic or disrupted sleeping. At times you may be prone to headaches, or feel like your shoulders are up to your ears with tension.

To plank or not to plank? That is the question!

As physiotherapists, it is common for us to ask a patient if they have done Clinical Exercise before. The answer we usually hear is as follows.