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Exercise makes you happy
Ok, it may not feel like it at the time when you’re struggling with your last reps or last mile but its true, exercise makes you happy. Exercise releases the hormone serotonin, serotonin is the happy...
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Use it or lose it
Ever heard the saying use it or lose it? Well this is known in the fitness world as the 5th principle of fitness; reversibility. Reversibility happens when we stop exercising whether it be...
View ArticleChristmas workout
Don’t let your fitness slip over christmas, use short interval workouts using body weight exercises that can be done anywhere, see Video below. The post Christmas workout appeared first on Macclesfield...
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Rugby players do Pilates and Yoga too
As I write todays blog the Rugby World Cup is coming to its final weeks. The world cup favourites, New Zealand, practice yoga regularly in their fitness training. Nonu a consistent player of the team...
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Trigger point pilates
Trigger points are scar tissue/ knots/ tender spots in the muscle. Trigger points can cause both localised pain and referred pain, they can hinder movement, efficiency of the muscle and affect...
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Why I run
A lot of my class participants and personal training clients always ask me why I run if I teach so many classes and exercise is my job, well here’s my story. I started running in 2005 because I wanted...
View ArticleReformer for runners
The pilates reformer is the foundation of Joseph Pilates work, he started with machines and adapted the exercises to create a mathwork programme as well. His earlier work was in prisoner of war camps...
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Hip Hop
We’re two weeks away from Hatters half marathon and Ive got a poorly hip flexor! I’ve been really good at doing my foot exercises, see numb toes blog, but I really haven’t got along with the new...
View ArticleNumb Toes
This is something I have struggled with in the past and its coming back to haunt me, so I decided I better nip it in the bud before the marathon training begins. I have bunions (pretty eh!) and toes...
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Why I’m running Manchester marathon – maybe Im crazy
I did it, I signed up for the one distance I said I would never run! Have I lost my marbles? Probably! So why have I signed up? Moment of madness? For the challenge? Too much Pimms? All of the...
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