Last Christmas I put together a 3 part exercise routine for over the holiday period. I’ve added a 4th section, some side-lying work. Each section is only about 10 minutes, so you could do 1 routine a day or go through all 4 in one go (and then feel smug and virtuous…) For Part 1 […]
Archives for 2013
Giving your spine a break when sitting
In my last post, Sitting – the New Smoking?, I talked about how to sit well. As I pointed out, the very best thing is to change position as often as you can. Our bodies are not designed to be stationary they way modern life leads us to be. Standing up, moving around, changing your […]
Sitting – the new smoking?
Sitting: the new smoking? Sitting in a chair – especially the way most of us sit in a chair or on the sofa – is really not very good for the body. Most of us roll back off our sitting bones and collapse through our spines, poking our heads forwards towards our computer or tv […]
Warning! Your feet are your foundations
I’ve written a lot about feet recently because our feet are hugely important to our health and well-being. They are our foundations, and, as with all vertical structures, if the foundations aren’t sound the structures above are at risk. Even if your feet don’t hurt, they may be causing pain or dysfunction elsewhere in your […]
Foot mobility: do you have planks on the ends of your legs?
We could all do with better foot mobility. A few minutes a day of stretching and moving your feet will do them the world of good. Our feet are our foundations and if they aren’t healthy – pliant, mobile responders to the ground below us and to the movement coming down from the body above […]
Shoe Rant
We all think of the ancient Chinese practice of foot-binding as cruel and barbaric. Yet we think nothing of squeezing our feet into pointy-toed, high-heeled, painful shoes – ladies, I’m talking to you here (and holding up my hand as a bit of a hypocrite) – on a regular basis, purely for the aesthetic value. […]